Between sleeps this afternoon I got out and did some weeding in the polytunnel. It was unpleasantly hard work despite sitting on a stool and the weeds only being small. However, to cheer me up a little I found a Corno di Toro pepper beginning to turn red.
And the next plant along appears to have plenty of good-looking jalapenos on it.
I toddled off to the local hospital this morning for my ultrasound kidney scan. When I did an ultrasound heart scan it took ages, but this one was over in less than ten minutes, and I had my bladder scanned into the bargain. No idea what they expected to find there. Aliens, perhaps?
Anyhow, it turns out that my kidneys are both looking perfectly healthy and I should be able to abuse them for years to come. Ok, so I made up that last bit. Just as well though, because after a dreadful afternoon that I spent mostly sleeping, here are my BP readings.
Not a good heart rate in the afternoon reading, and way higher than is ideal in the evening 🙁
For this cucumber.
I was doing so well, too. Only morning and afternoon readings today.
The first two are pretty much where I’d expect them. No idea why the last one was so low.
First time I’ve seen a hot air balloon around here for years. They used to pass by us quite regularly, but it must be ten years or more since the last one crashed landed in the field next to our house and there’s not been another until now.
(You know what they say about hot air balloons… A landing is a crash that you can walk away from 😀
Another item spotted whilst watering. This time in one of the greenhouses.
A small melon. I’m so pleased to see this though. I always seem to struggle with melons. Perhaps the warmth and sunshine this year has made it all easier.
No, I haven’t been throttling the life out of the squirrels that have yet again nicked all the walnuts off my walnut tree, though I feel I could be excused for such an action. In fact I have been picking blackberries again.
I hope this won’t be my last harvest. There are loads of berries that still aren’t quite ripe, but I’d not be surprised if the birds get to them before I do.
This is the first year I can recall that there haven’t been lots of flies on the fruit when I have been picking them. Whilst on the one hand that’s quite pleasant, it concerns me that it might be indicative of a lack of insect life generally, due to the weather. That in turn will affect all the animals that feed on insects. For example, in Spring we had loads of swallows flying about the place. Whilst there are still a small number it’s nowhere near as many and it’s probably too early for them to be thinking about heading off to warmer climes just yet.
Whilst watering in the polytunnel this evening I discovered that I have a cucumber that appears to identify as a tomato.
I also harvested the first of my brown sweet peppers. I love the colour of these.
Three readings again. But today I had a crap afternoon. Again 🙁
Much more acceptable heart rate for the afternoon reading though, despite the “low” BP.
