Michelle 🦋

Got a new phone finally which also means new camera and wow! The portrait mode is something else! Foxy and Zydeco helped me test it out.

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I know, I didn't update on my trip... got home and returned to some gorgeous flowers in my front bed.

Tulips are popping! Woah turns out one of the iris is Outstanding Drawf Iris. Which we had ordered the Martian dwarf and a Nice Job iris so... oh well? Guess I may need to buy more at some point. :p

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Been a while #Gardening

Trimmed back the tomatoes and weeded... it's been a bit of a challenge feeling motivated for gardening this year it seems. I did harvest the peas yesterday.

Headed out for a #dogcation at Soap Lake, WA! Time for adventure :)

First Tuplip has bloomed!

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Tulips this morning 🌹

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Potted up my tomatoes before I leave for vacation. It is still way too cold for them to be planted outside but they are growing and I've even had to pinch off some blooms. Hoping I can keep them healthy until they go into the ground.

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This weekend was jammed packed with gardening. We planted 70 new plants into the back planter 🫨

We layered compost over the leaf litter to continue working on the soil of this planter. It's taken a few years to amend it without being able to till due to the tree roots.

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Been a while I know...

Spring garden updates! I recently put in some new solar lights and I added a new dragon statue with a cute solar lighted butterfly on it's nose!

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@theotherbrook@sunny.garden 😆 the dogs are doing well! They've been dealing with some cabin fever with the cold wet - the sunset being later and later has been helping us all.

Okay so I haven't brought up recent #lupus stuff.

sooo... Platelets crashed again - Saphnelo isn't cutting it for that symptom. So, I'm back on Prednisone for the moment... Just started Imuran and I'm tapering off Prednisone through to the end of May.

Last December a former co-worker of mine lost his wife. Recently checked in and brought up my situation when he asked how I was doing. And sadly turned out that his wife passed from what I'm going through. I'm fortunate that I had a diagnosis, that I am being monitored as much as I am to prevent such a catastrophic fate. But it sure hit close to home.

blah - still letting it sink in a bit but I had my infusion on monday this week and met with my rheumatologist. There's talk about adding MTX to cover the week gap between infusions to manage my #lupus symptoms and I am not looking forward to it.