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I had signed up for a Prolific study, one that was supposed to last for two weeks. It was interesting in that it required me to have an app on my phone that sent an alert at which point I was supposed to enter whatever I was thinking at that moment and answer some questions about it. Today was the first day. At 7:22 while I was in the middle of a bad dream I suddenly heard some animal that sounded like it was being tortured. Wife, two dogs and I all three reacted towards the door before I realized that it was the app going off telling me to give them my thoughts.

I uninstalled the app and apologized to the researcher that I was not someone for their study. Great way to start the day.

Today is my first day back with the dogs at the Dog Ranch since my Seattle trip. They will be happy to see me and vice versa.

After I decided to water my lady banks roses using a tree root watering stake at the suggestion of @beautiful_dreamer_02 they have decided to get a bit more serious about blooming:

Lady Banks

 I watered the roots again today so we'll see how they do.  I'd love to have this wall covered in blooms, as would the bees and birds.

 
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When I go to Seattle my sister and I tend to eat way too much. It is pent up restaurant desire. @susandennis generally watches between visits for places we should go and then we gorge. Most of the trip is figuring out what to do until the next meal. It is really fun, like being on a cruise without the water and all the people all the time and the noise and all the people and the 'must have fun' and all... OK, it is nothing like a cruise but for the food.

On my return I had decided not to weight myself for a week. No need to be too depressed. I made it to yesterday. It turned out I was one pound over my top end acceptable weight of 212. And today I'm at 211. I give a lot of credit to Noom. The program taught me a lot about awareness and acceptance and water. I can generally tell how much I'm eating and whether I need to save room for the dinner I planned or can splurge a bit. I track my calories and type of food consumed in my head and could guess plus or minus 10% what my daily caloric intake is without thinking too much about it. And stressing even less. It is nice. I still want to get down to 200 and may make it but I'm not worried as long as I stay near where I am now.

On a separate note. It does look like a it is going to be another disappointing wildflower year. As I said yesterday there are some very small ones:
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But what is normally a large patch of bluebonnets is small this year and the flowers are not very large:
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This has, in the past, been three times as big full of flowers that are much larger.

It is the impending drought.  They are talking about water restrictions already and I suspect it will be a year of them followed by a permanent situation.  We have drought tolerant grass that grows with very little water.  In fact the weeds tend to die from drought while the buffalo grass does well.  That part is nice.  We have pretty drought tolerant plants too.  But I miss the flowers on our morning walk.

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