Busy as a Bee

What have I been up to lately?

Lunch:

Apple butter and cottage cheese on homemade toast. One of my favorite snacks! If I ever have apple butter and cottage cheese in the house at the same time, neither lasts long! This was the second piece for the day (so I'm a hobbit and need two lunches...) If you have never tried this, I recommend it. There's a local farm here that makes yummy apple butter. My favorite apple butter is anise. Ohhhh. I shoulda bought that one. I thought that *maybe* the plain would last longer...

Indoor farming:

I start my own tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, some herbs, gerber daisies and some other stuff. This year I started extra, since I have more time, and I am selling them. Craigslist is working great for this! Those funky looking pots are made of coir, or coconut fiber, which is a byproduct of coconut food processing. It's a more sustainable product than peat, which is a carbon sink that must be mined from the earth. I also make my own soilless starter mix, which is coir, earthworm castings, perlite and bio-fertilizers. (that's why I can sell these on craigslist- targeted marketing...)

Outdoor gardening (Well, a bit windy today these are from the other day):


This is a shot of the Polemonium reptans in our 'woodland' garden, which is a bit of a garden for Serenity. It is a 'woodland' garden because it is under a dogwood, which itself is supposed to be an understory tree. It is marginally growing here, but the native woodland plants do quite well under it. I have violets (cream, yellow, purple and white, and purple) blooming now too. The P. reptans is just the lightest of blues.

Cooking:

Those pansies, violas and woodland violets are supposed to make up for the saturated fat in that nice piece of steak. Yep, all are edible flowers! Triple S thought it was so pretty, I had surprised him by laying out the plates and stashing them in the fridge while he was grilling the steak on Friday. Maybe that's why I got the surprise bath on Saturday!

And see how straight my back is in the pic! I got a massage on friday, and I don't know what my *new favorite-person-in-the-whole-world* did, but my upper back is feeling much better - and for a whole 5 days now. I was gentle with myself in yoga yesterday because I didn't want to hurt it! She said she did a myofacial massage.

I changed my profile to a pick of me pulling weeds, a favorite hobby of mine.

The other thing going on was not recorded for posterity through photography. We went to see the reproductive endocrinologist yesterday (which I always try to call a restriction endocrinologist, ya know, RE, for all you molecular biologists). She said we can do progesterone about three days after ovulation (so even before getting the BFP), and suggested that we do ovulation predictor kits. Triple S was surfing the web yesterday at work looking for a brand to buy (guess who is motivated). The doc also want to do a hystosonogram with saline. We missed it for this cycle, as she is booked the rest of this week. I kinda wanted to ttc this month, so the secretary checked with the doc and the doc said she'd prefer us to wait. This lady is really helpful! This is what I wanted from my OB - just a bit of advice about my cycle length. I guess the RE thought that I could get away with doing an HSG even though we've only had one miscarriage. I don't think there is anything funky going on in my hooha, but who knows, I guess that's why we are going to look.

So, I feel like someone is taking care of us right now. Sigh of relief.