Morning routines.

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I have started weight and blood sugar testing to the stats.  Yeah, but having been off medication for the latter for a while, and with the new medicine on track, a minimum of daily checking is necessary.  It takes a bit to get everything going.  Stats are green across the board, the latter of the two new ones is coming into right ranges easily.  Finally, everything is being tended.  My first extra dose of carvedilol went down last night, and I think without too much fuss.

It is overcast this morning.  Fine by me.  I could use a cool morning in the garden.  The goal is to be out there by 10:00.  I would love to wake just a bit earlier and be out there by 8:00.  Not impossible, just not a reasonable thing for today.  An extra shower did probably help me get to bed last night, but not until midnight.  So an 8:00 waking after, for me, a long hard hot day was... good, very good.

Yeah, turnips, kohlrabi need to be thinned, first thing, this morning.  The other tubers aren't big enough to be thinned yet, they are slower growing.  They might not make it this year, though I think they can handle hard frosts so might just be later.  Time will tell.  If that goes well enough I will then get to more weeding/aerating/troughing though only a few more plants need that.  So, I may end up just weeding larger and larger areas around the plants which are being encroached.  That, however, will become a full time job by itself I think.  Next year I may buy mats which keep that down.  Just enough for between rows and right outside the rows.  They may make it easier/cleaner to kneel, walk, and otherwise work the plants, too.  Hopefully they last a few years... if you buy the right type.  Oh, I best set up the new water hoses and sprinklers.

I am impressed.  While I haven't been staying exactly on everything, and am really just getting to it, nothing was really needed until recently.  The weeds sort of popped really quickly.  Oh, I do need to add fertilizer to the water, probably just the spray nozzle, adding that individually.  I need to read the instructions.  Yeah, I'll fertilize, if it ends up helping.  It's simply not an issue hereabouts.  Let those who wish for organics do as they wish, I will do as I will.  I'm not a masochist or purite.  Something is eating holes in the leaves of the root vegetables.  I do believe an application of diatomaceous earth is in order, as a first option, but not last if it doesn't seem effective.  I could use the coffee grounds I saved, but that is probably better suited to the bigger, more singular, plants if they are under attack, since it doesn't go on the plants, but around them... and as such preserves the blossoms for pollination.  Yeah, something like that.  As if I really knew.  I'll learn, or... not?

Rest was good, if not quite as good as yesterday.  I did push, and that is the price.  That I still woke, and am ready to work again, is enough.  And it really was a resting sleep.  I just can't complain.  I may be able, finally, to keep things going.  To actually, again, after a bit of an interruption, start planning and doing, every day.  Which means weekends will be "off", but only from work.  I am hoping, if I get things going well enough, to use weekends to find hiking trails, go fishing, anything that keeps me active but changes the tempo of my activity.  Oh, some work will have to continue, but not at the same pace or regularity.  I might even be able to do laundry and cave tending more heavily on the weekends, to earn my pass to more enjoyable activities.  I will see as time passes what works.  I haven't really been to this kind of point in a while.  Even my best times so far, in the more recent history, haven't ever quite seen me to short and medium term life planning that I can depend on.  It's a new thing, if that is where I am actually at.  A month will let me know, the summer will hammer it home, the nature and length of my next fall will adjust outlook up or down.

Yeah, well... tinkertime until 10:00... or 11:00.  Bleh.  Later.