magid

Busy evening last night, mostly with mundane things: a stop at Paper & Provisions to get a new bag of flour (also more paper goods, etc), quick dash to the supermarket for eggs, farm pickup (and compost dropoff), then to the Diesel to actually see people for a bit before more usual life stuff.

I'd called the nurse yesterday morning, and by the evening, I picked up a prescription of methylprednisolone, a course of pills designed to relieve the intense itchiness that has been mine. I took the first 6 pills after dinner (I'm supposed to take them after food. It's a tapering course of pills, over 6 days.)(the pills are tiny, but uncoated, so leave a bitter taste in the back of the mouth... so I have to have something after, as well as before...), and was a ble to sleep relatively well through the night. This morning before putting on cream or the second dose my legs are mildly itchy, but more of a surface itch than the deep I-want-to-flay-my-legs sort of itch. Hooray for progress. And I promise to stay to very well marked trails from now on!

Some of the yellow heirloom tomatoes have a light reddish blush inside, just a slight banner of their biological past, or something.

Rose of Sharon has such beautiful flowers. I've seen them in white, pink, and purpl e, and the shape is just lovely. A mess to clean off the sidewalk as the season ends, though.

Mood: nutmeggy chocolate chocolate bread pudding