A low in the garden

(Note: This post is basically just an excuse for me to show you all my early spring strawberries.)

I planted this plum tree:

...and then proceeded to have an extraordinary low blood sugar. The two main symptoms I got were severe vision distortion and brain fog. I was convinced I had to tidy up all the garden tools and implements. The temperature was in the mid 20's C so it was hot. I was so low that I would have a thought, just long enough to decide something was wrong, but not quite long enough to figure out what was wrong, before the thought would be gone. I'm not sure how may minutes I spent randomly walking up and down the garden before I finally clicked on to the fact that I needed to test.

By the time I got in and tested, of course, I was hovering around 1.4 mmol/L and things were decidedly shaky. I hoovered up anything sweet I could think of, including but not limited to:

• juice
• cereal
• muesli bars
• fruit bars
• cookies
• honey (straight from the jar)

It was a mission to "wait 15 minutes" for my blood sugar to rise, but I know that the worst symptoms often hit during that waiting time. Shaking, sweats, inability to really walk in a straight line, and intense weakness in my muscles. Not fun.

Anyway, enough of that guff, here are the pretty pictures!

Early spring strawberries

Californian Poppies

Chives with flower buds

The crazy red lettuce that's going to seed

A secretive cauliflower that hid in the back of the vege garden looking like a useless non-hearting cabbage until I threatened to pull it out, at which point all was revealed

The grapefruit tree, which takes great delight in dropping fruit on my head when I'm working in the garden beneath it

The garden beneath the grapefruit tree

First apple blossom

Figs

Chomper the cat

Pansies and Lamb's Ears

Aquilegia

More Aquilegia

My new favourite tree, a dwarf peach tree covered in baby fruit