My numbers.... in Flash

... came in the mail today.

In a nutshell.

After a year without sugar or wheat, my cholesterol which was ok anyway is somewhat better. First time I've ever had high enough HDL (good cholesterol). Total cholesterol now is 163, was 173 in September of 2012. Good cholesterol was 35, is now 42. Triglycerides were 115, now 108.

But.... My blood sugar was 98 and is now 100. That is considered high (by one point).

They also tested (this time, I didn't have these numbers last time) BUN, e GFR, creatinine, sodium, potassium, uric acid, calcium, AST, TSH and HGB. All were in normal range.

This is a wellness screening. It didn't cost much.

I'm not sure what I could do to get my glucose down to a happy number. Less fruit and fewer corn chips, I suppose.

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Beautiful day. First day the farmers are really out in the fields. I went over to where Jim was chisel plowing and the lime spreading people were there. This was the first day they'd been able to be out too. Lime is put on hay ground to improve yield. It lowers/raises pH - makes it less acid. The clearing is due to get it too. They will have a hard time getting up there - but the guy said that's part of what they do.

I came home past the Amish settlement south of the highway. The Amish who live near us are north of the highway. I don't get to see these that often. A girl was mowing lawn - tall grass - with a push power mower and a boy was rototilling a big garden. Our Amish are new - they came from different areas. They do not farm, they do not have enough land. They build new houses and other buildings. They have horses in small pastures. And buggies in garages. They work for farmers, they do carpenter work, and have stores and other businesses.

I came home and watered the deck flowers. I found my Ho-mi and my gloves and I did a bit of gardening. I planted milkweed seeds in with the new tulips and daffodils.

These daffodils came out today.

I dug around some plants I'm pretty much sure are hollyhocks. Note accidental picture of the Ho-mi in the upper right corner of the picture above.

I took a picture of my hops.
This seems to be the year it leaps. Though I think it looked better yesterday before the cows walked through it.

I took a picture of the sedum.

And another of a new sedum.

And one of a daylily I planted last year.

Both the new sedum and the daylily were smothered last year by pole beans, I'm just glad they made it through the winter. They will do their leaping another year.

These aren't the greatest photos but they indicate that something is growing. And that I got off my butt and went outside and took some pictures.

I have a series of Gracie I might post tomorrow. She had something trapped in the culvert under the driveway. She worked pretty hard at catching it but I think whatever it was was smart enough to stay in the middle of the culvert where it was safe.