I don't have any real reason to post today. It's just been a while so I figured I'd ramble on for a bit. It's kind of a gloomy day and cool, currently about 69 degrees at 1:00 pm in the afternoon. So I'm cleaning and doing random things, including posting to this blog. The girls are sleeping or hanging out. Since they're 16 and 18 years old, they do a lot of sleeping now. 
The sages I planted are doing well. The Russian sage is still blooming as you can see. The Texas sage has stopped blooming, but looks good. So it looks like I managed not to kill either one so far. I'll be interested to see how they winter. I know the Texas sage has leaves year-round, but I don't know about the Russian sage. The little pine is looking okay, but is getting brown tips on it's pine needles. Maybe that's normal pine behavior when they prepare to be somewhat dormant over the winter. It would be just too ironic if the brown tips I tried so many things to cure a year ago are normal for a pine before the winter comes. Whether they are or not, I'm not treating the tree with ANYTHING. It will survive or not as it sees fit.
The peaches are putting on that last growth spurt before they drop their leaves. My big peach at the other house did this too. They actually grow more in the early Fall than any other time of the year. Maybe peaches are too busy producing fruit to grow in the Spring, so they grow in the Fall instead.
And in other gardening news, the aloe vera that got frost damaged and stayed out all winter last year, is the healthiest one of my aloe veras. It's a nice dark green and thriving, as opposed to the ones that I kept in the house over the winter. Those in-house ones got badly sun-burned when I put them outside last Spring and are still pale and just beginning to look good. That's yet another indication that I should leave my plants alone and just let them grow. They always look worse when I try to "help" them. In work news, I managed to win my election to national office in my professional organization! To say I'm delighted about that would be a massive understatement, because I had a tough opponent. That puts me as President-elect next year in 2015 and President in 2016. I suspect the next two years are going to fly past even faster than the last two have.
My neighbor across the street had foundation repair work done last week, and it not only made me very sympathetic, it caused dream flash-backs. I dreamed twice last week that my foundation shifted and I had these huge cracks in my walls and ceiling and had to have the foundation work re-done. It made me realize again how great 2014 has been and what a difference from my struggles in 2013. On top of that I've only had two minor colds this year, and I'm maintaining my weight around 132 without too much trouble. My cholesterol is back up to 200 the last time I had it checked, but that's because I started eating some greasy fast food again, and slacked off on the fruit eating. Guess I'll have to keep an eye on that. Shouldn't be too hard to find a happy medium. Plus my HDL cholesterol was 91, so nearly half my total is "good" cholesterol. 
That's about it for now.
