June 24, 2009

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  So Tom’s Doctor called and suggested a consult with a hematologist.  It is now scheduled for July 1st.  I’m in the process of cancelling a beauty shop appointment (or at least changing the time) so I can go with him.  This afternoon we go for the whole skeleton set of x-rays.  But we get to go out to lunch first.  Compulsive eaters always like doing that!

  And I’m stiff from my 4 hours in the garden yesterday. 

  Just a thought – hydrangeas are supposed to bloom on old wood.  Well, our old hydrangea has always died back almost to the base each winter, leaving a lot of old wood sticks sticking up.  Then it produces buds that grow into branches that will be next year’s sticks.  But those branches do produce flowers, eventually, each summer.  Are they old wood or new wood?  Is it magic?  Do I misunderstand the meaning of “old wood”?  It seems to me to be the same effect I’d get if I pruned them down to about 4 inches above the ground each fall.

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