May 21, 2007

• Head Colds and Horticulture
  
  Pull out your jump ropes and chant along:
  
  Mary, Mary, sick in bed
  Feels all wretched in her head.
  Sneezy, achy, fever, pain
  Mary, Mary, don’t complain!
  
  I went to the doctor today and got a nice, free antibiotic. He said it would have been $15 a pill, so I asked for samples.  I forget the name of it, something with an F. [EDIT--It's called Levaquin, which obviously doesn't start with an F.]  I’ve relapsed, and I’m lying in bed with my laptop on a pillow. I couldn’t fall asleep (probably because I slept in until 10:40 a.m. and it was only 3:30 p.m.), but it feels so nice to be lying down on soft pillows in a dark room.
  
  Thanks for all your helpful advice on the tomatoes and video. I shall observe those plants to see if they are truly dead or not. I bought replacements, but I’ve not gotten them planted yet. 
  
  I watched the DVD One Night with the King over the weekend. I read the book, Hadassah, upon which the movie was based, although I’m not sure it helped me to understand what was going on in the movie. It was a bit murky and rushed in spots.  I can’t say that I think the movie was “well” done, but to see a full-scale production of a Bible story is a treat, especially when it tells the story a little bit differently than I always pictured it.  I didn’t care for the scene where Esther reveals Haman’s plot to the king at the banquet. From my reading of the text (the REAL text), the king didn’t seem to need  a sparkly bunch of Stars of David to convince him of the veracity of Esther’s claims.  If you don’t want to watch it for the plot, the costumes are excellent–beautiful stuff!  It’s also clean, and you could watch it with the family, keeping in mind that there are eunuchs, kissing, and plot details which you may not want to explain to your seven year old.
  
  Mamaglop is an avid gardener and had a great entry about plants in her garden and how certain ones remind her of people because they were cuttings or offshoots from their gardens. I offered to send her a plant to remember me, and she mused, “By what plant would I want to be remembered?”  I’d like to be remembered as a double coreopsis. It was one of the first perennials I grew from seed, it’s a sunny yellow color, it blooms all summer and into fall, and it is great for cut flowers. Useful, cheerful, always hanging around.  What flower would you like to be remembered as? (No great big explanations needed. Any flower or plant will do!)
  
  

  
  

  
  
  (I hope that picture shows up. I linked it. I didn’t feel like searching for my own garden shots of years past.)
  
  
  
  

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