#1 - I have immense admiration for people that use their yards to create habitat. I'm not sure how much I can do with potted plants on a patio, but I bought one milkweed and a flowering plant they said would attract butterflies. It doesn't seem like much, but if everyone with a patio planted one milkweed well...I forgot to ask though about deer. I just looked it up and my experiment may fail. I bought
"Asclepias tuberosa (Butterfly Weed): Moderate-to-high vulnerability (69%)."
https://lifetips.alibaba.com/plant-care/will-deer-eat-milkweed-plants
whereas Asclepias viridis (Green Antelopehorn): has Very low vulnerability (11%)
sigh so it goes...I also planted one cherry tomato and one marigold that someone at work gave me. We'll see if any of it survives.
#2 - I was home sick the last couple days, I decided my nephew's track meet would be a pretty low key thing to motivate me to get out of the house today and besides some sniffles, I was fine. I got groceries, I replanted these plants. And I laid under this tree and read the new Elizabeth Gilbert book I'd just picked up from the library.
#3 - In the evening I wanted someone here to motivate me to walk, there was no one. So I asked life for motivation, and a bit later it came. I was walking quickly when a robin kept skirting my path, finally it stopped a bit in from of me and pooped on the ground. "Hmm what does that mean?" I thought. I looked around, a woodpecker. I was reminded of a friend who recently said woodpeckers were a sign he was on the right track. So I slowed down and looked at some more birds, and then just sat for a while.
#4 - The Eckhart Tolle website is double charging me. Yesterday I wrote them a message saying my pain body was being activated because I was being billed for something I already paid for. I received an email back they are looking into it, and I laughed at how strong my overreaction was yesterday.
#5 - "Do I have to?" My nephew's response to being asked if he'd go to the nearby frisbee golf course with me so I could practice my frisbee throwing. The answer was, "No," so we didn't go.
