A few random thoughts

Since this place isn't like facebook, I have to write all my random thoughts down in a single post. :-)

I keep running my upvote power down below 25%, I can't help it. I get on here and start reading posts, and the upvotes start flying. There's so much good content on steemit, I can't keep up with it all...

My garden is still growing pretty slowly, the weather just hasn't been very good for the garden so far this summer. It's been mostly in the high 60s and low 70s for the past couple of weeks, and we've had a lot more rain than normal. I've had a lot of trouble getting the pole beans to sprout, I think the ground is just too wet for them. I think that a lot of the seeds just rot before they can sprout, or they sprout and then die. I've replanted the pole beans 3 times now, and I have 11 plants in an 18 foot row right now. I'm waiting to see if the last replant takes or not. If I get beans from them, it will be late in the season this year. At least my row of bush green beans all came up, so I'll have them. I won't run out of green beans anyway, I'm still eating the beans I canned in 2015, and I have 60-70 pints of beans that I canned in 2016. That's one thing that I don't have to buy at the store.

I should have picked my strawberries 2 days ago, but it was raining all day. I picked them today and found a number of them that were pretty far gone. At least my mother wasn't there to holler at me for eating them instead of putting them in the bucket. I kind of miss that, you know...

I haven't been getting very far on my other projects this summer either due to the weather. I don't like to work on stuff when it's raining, I get wet, and I might melt. It's a good thing my skin isn't green...

I went to the walk in clinic at the local V.A. hospital today to see about getting a Lymes disease test, I found a really tiny tick on me about a week ago, and about 3 days ago I started feeling like shit. At first I thought it was the old potato salad that I ate, but then I remembered the tick. The end result was that they gave me the big dose of doxycline just in case. Lymes disease is nothing to mess around with!

On the good side, I haven't had a depression episode in about 3 weeks now, so that's a good thing. My depression is much more manageable in the summer, I have a seasonal affected component to my clinical depression. Being outside a lot really helps with managing the down cycle. I find it difficult to go outside in the winter, the cold makes my skin hurt. When I was much younger, the cold didn't bother me. I used to go ice fishing a lot, I just have no interest in that now.

Well, I guess that's enough rambling on for now, see you next time.

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope I didn't bore you too much...