The good news is my gardening stamina is much improved without the statins (no garden last year.) This afternoon I worked on the raised bed edges, pounding metal stakes through the corner planter blocks then digging out extra edge soil so planks stay in place better. Not all of them need it, but the bed where the potatoes are sprouting was kind of droopy around the sides. Everything else got trimmed and tomorrow I'll till the three other beds and plant this week.

I also cleared out around my potting bench in a private spot behind a fence near the garage. When I replaced the fence the I put a 10' perpendicular extension from the side boundary (creating a deep corner) so I can stash tools, the trash cans, the potting bench, etc., out of view of the street. I'm ready to start a bunch of seeds there (flowers for the various pots around the side and front porch). I've set up my garden watering hoses and need to set up a sprinkler for the vegetable garden—except when I got out my battery-operated programmable watering device that spends the summer on the back yard spigot I realized I was short a AA battery to replace the pair before I program it. Order placed on Amazon. I turn on water and it will turn off after X number of minutes, or when it gets to super hot weather I can program it to water before dawn so the code enforcement folks don't notice if my watering schedule doesn't match the city alternate side of the street rules. I'm not really a scofflaw, I don't bother to water the lawn in the rest of the yard, but the garden is important.

Freshly baked chicken breast for dinner (smells wonderful!) baked in the glass bowl convection oven. I found a Pyrex baking dish that fits inside so I don't have to clean the whole oven with each use. Yesterday I used it to bake a high-protein bread pudding (gluten free bread, only 1 T brown sugar for four servings, extra sweetener was Stevia and monkfruit drops.)