The Young and the Restless - MESSAGE BOARDS

OOOOOPS!! I don't know about calling in the Mounties. They seem to be getting themselves into a lot of trouble these days with sexual harrassment against the female officers. Maybe our best known pretend Mountie, Paul Gross, would suffice as a substitute?

SoI am being fingered as the one responsible for spoiling the Wombat? ppssstt did you find that separate stash of Bailey's?

Truly my dear, the best of luck with your ordeal. The beads are out on a daily basis.

I haven't been around too much either. Busy with my mother health concerns and trying to find appropriate care for her.

Soooooo great to have Wombat posting again.

Feel well Wombat.

I love Paul Gross too !!!

Good morning everyone. It was so good seeing Wombat for a little while yesterday. I wish she could have been allowed to stay with us until time for her surgery. It's only a matter of days.
Please, let's send her all the prayers and positive energy that we can. She has a lot to get through in the next few weeks. Love you Wombie!
Blueberry muffins this morning with soy bacon, Kenyan coffee with lots of Baileys, Czar Nicholas II tea, and watermelon slices. Everyone have a good day. V left to work some overtime with instructions for so much work for me to do today that I can't decide where to start. Maybe I should call him & get him to rank my chores for me? Or maybe I will just not do any of it & chat with whoever is on the board all day. hmn. Big decision. First step-a trip to the daylily garden.

oops. sorry if blueberry muffins were a thoughtless snack choice today. Removing them & putting out some salsa with touch of lime doritos and a bucket of ice with Coronas in it. Hope someone drops by to enjoy them. If not, the Coronas will keep.
Wombie, i am going to e-mail you. I enjoyed seeing you so much and wish you were here again today . Please believe that a lot of people here do care about you very much. Maybe not all. What kind of jellyfish would someone have to be to ensure that every single poster would be your friend?
People misunderstand & misconstrue & hold grudges. That is just the way things are.

Good morning. The garden is a riot of gladioli. I can barely get to the day lilies w/o snapping tall stalks of them. I am going to "harvest" them. In my vase collection, besides crystal vases, we now have purple, red, & orange, thanks to frequent flowers sent to Mama for afar. The glads are white, lipstick pink on white, & salmon. I should be able to find a vase that looks good with each kind (and next year I need to buy some new bulbs. These were supposed to be an assortment but only those 3 colors thrived & reproduced). I need to get out there before my husband assigns me some tasks. He hates to see me on the computer. And the punk drank all the whole milk for coffee, with 3 gallons of other milk in the frig.
Before I leave I am brewing Costa Rican coffee though & leaving you some lemon flavored cheese cake. Peach tea in case our busy Suzi ever pops in. And lots of Bailey's including cream flavored with it in case Wombat pokes her head in. Have a lovely day everyone. I tried to get Hubby to go to a "Rowdy Square Dance" last night to kick off the Eno Festival but he is always too tired to go anywhere. Yesterday was a reenactment at Bennett Place too & the reenactors were bringing their horses. I would have enjoyed seeing some cavalry. Instead I went to 2 banks, the pharmacy, & grocery shopping at Aldi's which is always rather strenuous, got too hot and my blood sugar dropped to 65 which pretty much messed me up for the rest of the day. Still adjusting my insulin doses. I had had to go up to close to 200 units a day to control it during the bladder cancer scare. Now I am down to slightly more than half of that. Quite a roller coaster ride!
I think part of the blood sugar drop yesterday was being told that my bp rx was now $155 instead of $40. I told them to keep it until I could investigate it with Blue Cross on Monday. It's a new calendar year & they are always pulling something. One time, I was handed a bill for over $400 for one of my eye drops. It was a 3 month supply for which I had been paying $120. Turned out it had gone generic so Blue Cross was making me pay the difference. The pharmacy tech, "Mohamed" told me "Well I called Blue Cross & they told me it was ok to dispense it at that price". I told him "Next time ask me. I like to make decisions that involve that much of my money". I found out what the score was, got it switched to generic & now pay $12 for a 3 month supply. In this case, it seems to be working fine. This is the same pharmacy that refused to let me have Mama's med for her congestive heart failure one day early even tho the cardiologist prescribed it as "Take one tab daily AND as needed". I was mad as fire. Even a layperson could see that she had permission to take extra tablets and the PA had called me that week to say her lab tests showed she was still retaining fluid & to have her double her dose for a few more days. The pharmacist claimed her hands were tied by the insurance company. I considered a complaint to the parent company & possibly to the Board of Pharmacy but it takes SO much energy to be mad & I used to be a pharmacist myself. I hate to go too far over the top but I can assure you that if a patient's well being was at stake, I would have found a way to fix things. Luckily, I keep a little of everything in reserve or I would have taken her to Urgent Care & got her a new rx & let them know that the lack of flexibility in their policies caused them the extra expense. She is fortunate enough to have both Medicare & Federal Retired Employee's insurance so they cover nearly everything except her prescriptions and her copay is only about 20% on them. All that fight over the one day early Furosemide was for a 0.47 prescription. How stupid!

I cut an armload of gladiolus for the house and for the Refuge. All of them are pinkish white or pink or white with bright pink markings so I used the purple vase. They look so nice & I just discovered they have lavender pollen! Most of my flowers have yellow pollen. I could probably breed them but I just can't take on any more bee work right now.
I don't like the salmon ones as much but they might look good in the orange vase, esp. if I can scrounge up a few white daisies to stick in with them. I have a lot of wild Queen Anne's Lace too which looks nice in bouquets but is frequently full of red bugs. I noticed something is eating the smaller glad bulblets but I don't think they will eat the big ones (I hope).
I have three tomatoes on the first bush & most of the newer plants are ready to blossom. They made a nice recovery from their long sojourn in little plastic pots. * are now very green & healthy looking. They looked purplish when I bought them & I wondered if they were mislabeled but I think it was just stress.

Noon is way too hot for me to be in the garden but I tried to pollinate most of the tall pretties with some extra edge (heavy gold baroque off of Darla Anita but the pollen was already a bit dry. I already have some very nice silver filagree edges on some of the babies. I am mostly trying for heavier edges, purple black hearts & edges, height, blueness, and everything that is extraordinarily beautiful. I am not cutting edge because I can't buy $300 daylilies to improve my stock but nearly everything I have bred is probably salable (at a reasonable price) and some of them are truly beautiful & worth registering but I am really not interested in trying to sell any of them. They are my pleasure. I am into the 3rd generation now with my Ocsana line (named for my step-daughter). It's a dark salmon or dusty pink with a large dark purple, near-black heart. Ocsana's Baby is even nicer & I am waiting to see what the grandkids will look like.
That's another thing I like about breeding daylilies: I get to name them. I have a lot named for various family members & have 15,000 names to pick from ( ).
I was going to name the tall yellow with a raspberry blush heart "Tasmania" but I think I will name it "Wombat" unless she would prefer a different one to be named after her. I have a huge selection. I will ask her.