Katiebird's Garden & Wildcraft

I had lemon trees in my dream last night.  Obviously, we weren't living in MN in this dream. I have starting my veggie seeds on my kitchen table, a couple each week and now the table is full.  We have to eat in the living room.  Last night I designed my gardens on paper, which actually worked out pretty well.  In my front patio garden, I don't think there will be the vast multitudes of flowers like last year (I planted hundreds!) but I plan on filling in all of the spaces around the tomatoes and peppers with flowers so it is full.  I don't like to see dirt or grass clippings amongst my plants.  Too dirty.  But all of this plant thinking during the day is impeding on my dreaming!  I think I am meant to live in one of those 2-3 growing season states someday, according to my dreams.

I did not think I'd blow through a Twinkie in 25 mins.  It's amazing what your body can do.   As I spouted off the other day about trying to NOT get a low blood sugar when I am running, I'm still experimenting.  I started off last night with a BG of 129 at 6:00 pm (I'm at a basal rate of .45 from 2:30-7:00pm) and a teeny bit of afternoon snack-insulin on board still, so I ate a Twinkie snack cake (28 carbs-mostly straight sugar) hoping that'd take care of it.   Nope, went for just under a 1.5 mile run (25 mins) and came home to a BG of 67 and an evening of almost being low (granola bar was necessary) until I went to bed. Took a big swig out of the milk carton for good measure before bed and woke up to a 164.  Not bad.  If I run today, I will turn the basal down to .25 at around 5:30 and also make sure I'm higher when I start.  Maybe a BG of 150 will be a good number to try and be at.  I'll do the same route also.  We'll see what this lovely evening b

Seems that I cannot run more than 2 miles at a time without the BS going low.  I neeeed to run 3.1 miles for my first-ever 5k run the end of April!  I make a point of chowing down 3 glucose tabs after miles 1.5 and hope for the best, but the vision is getting fuzzy and its time to call it quits.   I do walk the rest of the time while "hoping" I begin to feel normal, as 2 miles is a necessity at this point in my little training plan.  But to no avail, and its time to go home for a substantial snack.   I think that I will try NOT bolusing for dinner tomorrow (or whenever the next run is) as I have been covering 1/2 of the carbs I eat the last couple runs and that just isn't working.  We'll see if it works!  

Here is the yummy Tandoori chicken, whole wheat flatbread, tzatziki dip and toppings that I made on Thursday night last week. I call it Indo-Greek food Recipe will be on the recipe page tomorrow!