Happy ¼ of a Century to Kira today!

Happy ¼ of a Century to Kira today! We're kind of on opposite schedules right now, so me and Shaun stayed up late to have birthday dinner with her. We hung out, talked, and watched music videos while we waited for the food to arrive. I always love hanging out with this girl. She's so funny and sweet!

Shadow got her some cute cupcake earrings, and we got her a Concha pillow. We're going shopping this weekend, so that should be a lot of fun!

Happy Birthday, Kira! It's been amazing watching you grow into such a beautiful young woman. We're so proud of you! 💙

This is what it's like...

This is what it's like when Bear wants to go to bed and the cats get all excited because they get wet food after Bear is tucked. Everyone crowds around Shaun and telepathically sends him their "I'm tired, I'm hungry" vibes. 😂

We're running water to the greenhouse soon.

We're running water to the greenhouse soon. We don't have a great spot to tap in without pulling up all of the landscaping we did last year, so we've got a different plan. It'll be great not to have to carry buckets and buckets of water out there. I'm excited. Hopefully, the ease of watering will help me keep my plants fat and happy this summer.

Captions on the pics. 😊

Probably my oldest plant. She's doing well.

The shelf I rearranged. I had the 6 large white pots all on the top together, but the black trays wouldn't fit 2 per shelf without hanging over the edge. This arrangement definitely makes more sense.

Pretty orange flowers! 🧡

I love the shape and color and texture of this weirdy. I also love the long black spines on the cactus behind it.

Cholla and Prickly Pair pieces from the yard plants. I don't know if the Teddy Bear Cholla we planted is gonna bounce back after the winter we had. If it doesn't, we have plenty of backup.

Today was medicine day again.

Today was medicine day again.  I now know from last time that I CAN give myself the shot, but that doesn't mean I want to.  😆  Shaun did it for me.  I still get all queasy and weird when I try to do it myself.  It's just not a fun time.

I don't think I had any side effects at all after last week's dose.  I also didn't feel full for most of the week.  I didn't really have trouble controlling my eating, which was nice, but I'm kind of wondering if it's time to go to a higher dose.  Supposedly, until you're at 1 mg, you're at a loading dose and I'm at a quarter of that.  My doctor told me that I could go up, so I will consider it this week and make a decision by next Tuesday.

One thing I have noticed is that my inflammation is worse, which I've read can happen when you lose weight.  So my joints are achy and my skin is terrible, but that's ok.  I am gonna trust the process.  This should just be temporary.

It has been a Migraine Monday.

It has been a Migraine Monday. I held on at work through the power of Ibuprofen, but as soon as I got off I took my migraine meds and crashed.

Now it's almost 11 and I'm awake. 😬🫠

I did more work in the greenhouse today.

I did more work in the greenhouse today. I repotted a few plants and rearranged a bit. It looks a lot nicer and more organized. Maybe I'll get some pics next weekend.

The first 2 pictures are of some cacti I repotted. They were holding spines in the left picture before the repot. After the repot, I sat them down and they were hooked again. I swear I didn't intentionally do that. They are besties. 😊

The last two pics are of the Propeller Plant I got from the February CSSNM meeting. I never could get it to re-root, but today I took the pups off to pot them. I also took the leaves to see if I could root any of them.

It did have mealy bugs, but I am pretty sure that happened here because I had some a while back. The webbing here is dried because I used Diatomaceous Earth on them (weeks ago), as well as soaked it in water for a few hours yesterday before drying it out and potting it today.

That one pup that I took a close-up of busted through a leaf, which I'd never seen before. And even if those leaves in the pot don't root, it made a nice photo and I still have the pups. But no harm in trying.

I spent most of the day in the greenhouse.

I spent most of the day in the greenhouse. I watered a bunch of plants, pruned the dead leaves, repotted some, and cleaned a little. In the midst of all of that, I made a bigger mess. But I can finish up in there tomorrow and be ready for spring! 😊

Here are a few pics with captions:

I had a hard time getting this Aloe out of its pot. Good thing I did - they had a baby smooshed down in there!

A pretty Echeveria bloom. I love the colors.

One of these flowers finally opened up. So pretty!

I caught her with all of her flowers open today. Just gorgeous!