Question about a Block, Is it ADHD or FIBRO, JAP BEETLES, Growing Around, Poison or Not, Turtle, Fred, Snake and Chipmuck

 Question...

Do you call these

Cinder Blocks

Concrete Blocks

Cement Block

or 

Brick o Blocks?

 Or, do you have another term for 

them?

I have referred to them as Cinder blocks

before but that is not what I really call them.

 I basically call them concrete blocks, or cement blocks

but grew up calling them Brick o Blocks.

Where I learned the term Brick o

Blocks, not a clue!

Do you ever wonder where I come 

up with things to blog about?

The question above came about

when I was working in between rain

showers the other day and this is 

how my mind looks if you could see it.

My body might not be able to hold

out to do all the designing, creating, 

planning or working but my mind

is a jumble mess of stuff going on.

The blocks came about when I looked

over and saw two concrete blocks I have

in the yard, I went from having to 

move them to do I have anything

I can use them for right now,

to what are they called!

And, with that said, thoughts move

around in my mind so fast its

like being on a race track hitting

almost 200 miles per hour.

That leads me to a question that 

Liz asked on my post couple

days ago.

Question ~

I was just watching a reel on FB where 

someone was talking about ADHD and these 

research rabbit holes. How it's a dopamine hit, 

to find all that new information. So... ADHD?

Not diagnosed but about a year ago when

I started down several rabbit holes about

my low vit D, B and Iron, I ran across

reels on FB about ADHD in women,

diagnosed late in life.

Keeping in mind that with Fibro, my

mind is always all over the place.

In flare ups, thoughts move around

in my head so fast that I can't keep up

and at those times anyone in a conversation

with me, has a really hard

time following my thought process.

But, in the RABBIT HOLE, and reading

about adult women with ADHD, watching

reels and learning, I am totally

convinced that I have lived my whole

life with it, and looking back to 

my childhood, teen life and even

my adult life, it would explain a lot

of things. 

When I saw the nuro doc and had the 

MRI of the head, and by the way,

they found a brain, I asked him about

the possibility of finding out and he wanted

to get to the issues at hand at that 

time to come back to my question later.

I have not gone back and I keep asking 

myself, what does it really matter, 

I will not go on meds for it. I figure

I have lived this long with it, and 

this late in life, is it worth it?

I would personally like to know what

a medical doc thinks but again, there

is no real test to find out.

Then if I had it, I would want

to share with mom, that would explain

so much to her, but I am sure, 

looking down from heaven, she would 

know.

 

Japanese Beetles.

I was out in the yard earlier on Monday,

 and saw none of these THINGS.

Later I went out and they were

on my tomato plants and my Crepe Myrtle.

I ran right in and mixed up 

the DIY spray of water, dish liquid,

and veggie oil.

Took care of them, need to check on

them again in the morning.

Monday it was one rainstorm after

another. I would go out and play some

in the yard between rains but 

lightening sort of put a damper

on that.

I checked on the gauge Monday evening

and it was topped out at 12 inches in two days.

ENOUGH!

Wow, I need to hire a photographer,

this is a horrible pic. 

This is also the very first flower

to bloom in the wildflower bed.

Not knowing what all I threw in there

I had to ask google about this one.

It is a Linaria reticulata Flamenco aka Toadflax.

Okay, so I have never had this 

flower before.

Just another shot of the wildflower bed.

Tired of watching my plants grow in here yet?

I am a little confused, most of this look

like marigolds and that is not what

I planted. Guessing we will see, 

together as it grows.

Isn't this pretty. You know I 

tend to go for the purple but I did not plant this,

and matter of fact, this pic is from 

the internet. But it is a 

Wild Bergamont.

I scanned this plant in pic 

below growing in my

backyard bed 

and again, not sure what I 

had growing there. That's the fun

of just having folks give plants, digging

them wild out of the yard and replanting

them or throwing out seeds, you might

not be sure year after year what you got.

But anyway, Google tells me 

that this can either be

a Toothed Spurge aka Green Poinsettia,

or a wild Bergamont

or a Fringes Loosestrife. I personally

would be happy with it being a wild

Bergamont which is aka Bee Balm.

Pretty sure it is not a Green Poinsettia 

cause I have pulled a lot of those

from the yard and this is a lot taller,

and don't really look the same.

Guess we will wait on this one

also to see what it blooms.

In the yard, WILD.

A Carolina Wild Petunia.

So, I got my little travel size

shovel and dug this baby up.

I planted it in a pot. I need to make

these plants so I am not struggling

so much next yr wondering, "Did

I plant that"?

course I know a Day Lily.
I only have orange no yellow.

I planted this back near the tree line.

That is not Poison Ivy around 

my day lilies it 

is Virginia Creeper.

I need to weed some of it 

down but since I know its not 

Poison Ivy, I am good.

This is Poison Ivy

Poison Oak

And then we have the Virginia Creeper.

Ever hear the saying,

3 leaves let it be

5 leaves you are fine.

I love this plant. 

This is a Spiderwort.

Okay, I hate spiders, but this is

to pretty to hate cause of a name.

And, seriously, do spiders get warts?

I often wonder where these names

came from.

This plant grows with no effort

at all. I literally do nothing with it.

It returns to share its beauty

every year. I have several places where

this is growing and I would not care

if I took over the bed. I have had it 

get really big but these are all 

just a year old, plants from friends.

 

 I was over between the yards 

Tuesday morning checking on the Milk

Weed plants. They are on neighbors 

land but she is fine with me harvesting 

seeds when these finish blooming. That

is what I am looking for,

these plants going to seed.

Then again, I might just order some

seeds to put out in the fall.

Thinking of a space beside the 

wildflower bed which will draw 

butterflies, bees and hummingbirds.

Why there, easy, I want to maybe

do a bed about the size of the wildflower

BED and plant nothing but

milkweed for the Monarch.

Anyway, I was going somewhere with 

the fact I was in the neighbor's yard,

see how my mind is usually all over

the place? There, did it again,

anyway, I saw this guy when I was over

there. First turtle I have seen

in or near my yard. 

Found a shell of one last yr up

by the mailbox, but no turtle.

Course you all met Fred.

If I only have the one, then

at the beginning of spring, he was

living under a railroad tie that is 

around the driveway, but I got

to missing him.

Then I was out in the backyard and 

his dude above almost landed on me when

he jumped. 

Since then, I found him in the back again

but on the other side of the house.

Course I know there could be and prob is

more than one. I did see a baby a couple

weeks ago, bout an inch big.

But anyway, when I walk, my eyes

are on the ground, do not wish to step on 

Fred or his relatives, but then again, 

I fear stepping on a snake also.

Speaking of snakes, 

my neighbor sent me this last week.

He hubs is always in the workshop building 

cabinets and just outside the garage door

was this one. Rat snake but for me, it 

is not where it should be!

Pretty sure this is the one that 

I heard russelling around in the leaves

at the entrance of the woods last spring, 

before I had all that cleared off. I wondered

where this went.

oops!!

Not seen the chipmuck in a few days 

either, but with it so rainy its

a wonder anything came out.

Oh, and Liz, I went searching 

again, 

it appears that Fred

is not a frog, he is a toad.

Never to old to learn.

Pam