Not a weed!
It's a good thing I have a lawn service. Most of the things that end up blooming in my back yard, I would have pulled out as weeds when they first started coming up. I've made a pact with myself not to pull up anything the lawn service people leave alone. Occasionally I see something very weed-looking and I wonder about keeping that pact, but once again it's proved to be a wise way to go. I have a huge sunflower beginning to bloom along the edge of my patio. You can see here the stage of blooming where it is currently. The plant is about chest-high on me right now.
I'm pretty sure this wasn't an intentionally planted sunflower. I'm guessing it came from the birdseed I put out there. I periodically hose off the patio, and probably hosed a sunflower seed into the garden at the patio edge. Still, it's going to be pretty when it blooms fully and probably will attract more birds when it goes to seed.
I also have two plants that look like corn plants that are not quite knee high on the opposite side of the patio, which I figure came from the same source as the sunflower. The people who used to own this house and worked so hard to have a beautifully landscaped place would probably be horrified by sunflowers and corn plants, but I like to let things grow. Although I do have to occasionally pull up a bunch of the mint so that it doesn't take over the world. It seems to be flowering at the tips right now.
The cat children are not feeling too well. We went to the vet yesterday for their annual physicals and vaccinations. I also had blood work done on both since Addy needs her kidney function monitored and Zoe's old enough to have some baseline labs done. Addy's recovered from the experience just fine although she's being a very clingy, Momma's girl. Zoe's off her food. She obviously doesn't feel well. But since she is eating, just not as much as usual, I'll just keep an eye on her. She went outside as soon as I opened the door this morning, and has been laying out there for the last three hours. I imagine she'll come in when the day starts to heat up. It's in the mid-70's out there this morning, so pretty nice still.
We got rain here yesterday afternoon. They were calling for a 20% chance of spotty afternoon showers and storms so I didn't expect anything, and was lucky enough to be in the right spot. It probably rained less than an hour, but was a pretty decent rain while it lasted. And the clouds kept the temps in the low 90's.
Next Saturday I'm going to a convention of one of national organizations. I'm running for President-elect of this one this year, even though I'm already pres-elect of my other organizations. It'll work. If I win this election I'll be Pres-elect of this one the year I'm Pres of the other one. Anyway, I've been working on sprucing up my wardrobe to do a bunch of schmoozing at the convention. It's been kind of nice because I've lost weight and am buying dresses 2 to 3 sizes smaller than the last dresses I bought. The bad new about the loss of weight is that most of my current wardrobe is baggy on me. I have to work on a lot of my wardrobe - which is good for my shopping alter-ego, bad for my credit cards.
The weight loss started during the Japan trip. When I got back my cholesterol was so much lower than it usually runs and I had dropped some weight and the only things I did were to eat better foods, eat smaller portion sizes and get exercise. So I'm motivated to keep on and continue dropping the weight. Even if I do have to make the sacrifice of shopping for new clothes. lol.
You know, if someone would invent a sarcasm font and an irony font, they'd make a fortune.
That's all for today.
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