A blood pressure of 116/86 might be the problem?

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I hadn't measured my bp for a number of days.  I did keep up on medicine, feeding the girls, and myself to a degree with some help.  I have kind of mostly kept up on the little things(tm).  Weighing myself and checking the rest, however, sort of just fell off.  I simply haven't been able to keep everything altogether.  I do wonder if a low blood pressure will cause that?  I also wonder if that is temporary?  Time may tell.

I have been doing little other things though.  One of my house plants must have gotten a blast of cold.  The stems folded.  I took that plant into the bathroom, gave it a nice luke-warm splashes from time to time, and turned up the heat for a few days, giving it a greenhouse treatment.  I decided, while I was at it, to give the other plant the same treatment.  Why not?  Wouldn't want it to become jealous in any case.  The stems simply would not heal.  Ah well.  I decided to bind the stems so as to make them stand upright and put both plants back up after their little vacation.  The other plant has no troubles, wherever I place it.  But this one, when I put it near the southern most window, to try to get it more sun, as a rotation thing not by need, it really got hit.  So, it stays near the eastern window and my trooper will be by the southern window...  I suppose until the world warms, at which time both may have to be taken into either my bedroom or at least the living room.

After hearing that coffee grinds could be useful, at another blog, I started doing a bit of research on the topic... that and I cut a used milk jug open to begin collecting used grounds.  Okay, so drying them out on a paper towel in the sink might be a better first step.  Thankfully I kept tinkering with the project so that no mold took hold before the grinds dried.  Still, at some point, without a bit of care, the whole process might end up going south without pre-drying.  The research I have done doesn't indicate that coffee grinds would be useful to keep box elder bugs at bay, per se.  But there are many other uses.  They do work against ants anywhere, and slugs and the like in the garden, and such.  It seems the grinds are acidic and have a similar sharp nature which cuts the body/shells of bugs, much like diatomaceous earth.  It even has it's own set of nutrients to offer, if too it adds to acidity so some consideration must be used.  It can be added as a direct soil supplement or rebrewed into a fertilizer tea.  Hmm.  Well, it is something to do, you know.  Heck, the research might even, eventually, lead to worm farming.  I would have to learn more about composting, and get that going a bit first to make sure of some things though...  A few years from now, perhaps.

I did finish most of the dirty dishes.  Some things were not in that first soak and needed soaking.  Those are indeed soaking and may be done before the hour is out.  And, I do think I may get to snow blowing.  Just not at 5:30.  My neighbors are quite pleasant folk, I don't want to poke a stick in an eye to see how test-worthy that is!  No, but perhaps if I am still in some kind of shape in three or four hours I will tend to that.  I might get out and mess with the broom to give me a clearing into and out of the garage some time before then, though.  If so, I will grab some stock for the drywall repair.  Hmm...

I think, perhaps, I am... picking back up a bit.  Now, if I can just get some function going WHILE keeping bp down, I might have a crack at actually getting ahead.  Of course, one low bp reading means nothing.  Still, seeing it that low twice, over a short period, does provide for some hope.  Well, and there is something else.  I have found that, perhaps, I have not been relaxing during the reading.  Just a little unconscious constant flex, possibly, might elevate the thing.  My arm has to be just so, and my elbow has to be able to rest, and resting both arms to allow an evenness through which I can wholly relax, and some other things...  All it takes, I think, is a little pull on muscles and the readings will be high.  Working on it...  Now, since I don't think you can relax enough to throw the reading off into "too low", I am not worried about that.  But the high reading, yeah...  If it is just that, perhaps...  Gah!  Why can't this be easy?  :p

Well, on to... some other things.  Food?  Hmm.  Yep.  Coffee too.  Maybe a bit of reading.  But the few dishes remaining first.  Good day...  Good morning, actually.