Remi found a branch in the backyard today that’s about 4 feet long, and has lots of nice twigs to chew on. The funniest thing, though, was seeing him grab it and go running back and forth across the yard with it. He is a 30 lb dog, afterall!
Unfortunately, he discovered that my penguin lives on top of my dresser, so he has been standing up and helping himself. I knew we were in trouble when I found it laying in the middle of the floor in the office! I moved said Penguin closer to the center, so Remi can’t reach him, and we have closed the bedroom door when he’s inside. Keeps the kitty from being able to hide under the bed, but I’m sure she’ll survive what with all the other places she can still hide.
I put in an application for the Texas State typing/clerical pool, so hopefully someone will need a typist and notice that I type ~90 wpm. The pay isn’t great, but it’s something - for something that’s easy for me. The fact that I speak Spanish and German could help, too.
I noticed that the pot of yard beans was full of ants the other day. Yesterday I noticed bugs on the plants - after looking at pictures and combined with the ant infestation, I think they’re aphids. I am going straight to the big guns, since I’ve already lost 3 bean plants to the little buggers (and a 4th seems to be on its last legs). We’ll see how it goes.
The string beans are the same size as the yard beans, amazingly, despite the yard beans having a couple of weeks’ head start. I sent Brian some yard bean (and cucumber) seeds, because he can’t resist the idea of 3 foot string beans. Hopefully they’ll work for him too, he said he’d go look for some pots to plant them in.
Everything else is still languishing. I think I may have to thin the peppers soon, maybe they’ll do better if they have some more room. Still no clue how they hide a pepper plant in a pepper seed - those things are tiny! And so flat. Then again, they manage with tomato seeds, too.
I found a little ‘greenhouse’ by Jiffy at Walmart, so I put a bunch of the pellets in a bag for later, and am in the process of soaking 4 of them. Three have been planted, and one is still soaking. Then I’ll put the whole lot outside (maybe on top of the bunny condo?) and see how they do. Eventually I’ll even be able to plant my tomatoes in their upside-down containers!
Dinner is in the crockpot, and I feel like I’m about to pass out/throw up - I have had a nasty sinus headache all day, so I signed my life away for some sudafed and my stomach is not appreciating the effort. On the bright side, the headache is gone. On the down side, well, I can’t remember what the down side is, but I know there was one.
The pharmacy tech at Walmart didn’t know what Sudafed was - he finally figured out (after some pointed looking on my part) that it was on the little rack, and then figured out, oh, it’s decongestant! My faith in the Walmart pharmacy continues to flag. (Last time I went to one in Florida, and the gal working asked someone, “What’s 250 divided by 14 days? Oh, I don’t feel like doing the math, I’ll just give him x pills.” She had a calculator sitting right next to her.) Pharmacy techs in Texas have to be certified. The test is hard, too - if Joe weighs 241 lbs, and he’s supposed to get 1.5 mL of medication per kilo/hour in his IV for 6 hours, how much medication do you add to the IV fluids? Not to mention the questions asking, which of these is a medication for seizures - propoxyphene, depakote, amiodarone, or methotrexate? If you don’t know sudafed, of all things, is a decongestant, how on earth are you supposed to know that???
The seriously munched plants were pulled, and I didn’t feel bad until I saw all the little roots on the bottom of the one. Awww poor little bean plant!
