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having involuntarily dropped off in my in-door cabrio for my after-dinner nap I must have had an encounter with a tank too close for comfort and if I wouldn't want to spare my neighbors up to about a mile away a severe freight, dropped coffee pots and cups etc. I could roar with the pain. But what doesn't one do to try and be good-neighborly???? My dosage of P works fine for the muscles but my skin is in a mess, particularly my hands, split open in all sorts of uncomfortable places, but elsewhere just as well, some of which are too rude to mention. We'll get through it, I'm sure. All I can do is to liberally apply olive oil. I'm thinking about getting some olive trees. Anybody in the know if they'd grow on my balcony. My in-door acreage is to small by far to plant them in-between.

Talking about orchids. That orchids are tropical plants is a common misconseption. Actually, orchids can, and will, grow close enough anywhere on our terra firma and in close enough any altitude. Correct is that must big, showy specimens are tropical or subtropical. But would you call Northern America tropical or subtropical? Yet, a good number of specimens are growing there. Unfortunately, most people will not recognize that the specimen in front of them is an orchid actually. Sadly, Northern America is the black spot in my collection, yet. Then my „ United Nations“ of orchids will be complete. Mine are much ore well-behaved that the original one. Actually, I have the same species of two continents. On their own they were not much. But since I've placed them next to each other they florish. I call them Fidel and Matilda for obvious reasons (and hope I'm not in the black book of secret services all over the world). Some will flower all year round, others once year. A good few are terrestrial, more grow on trees , stones or rocks (but will not feed off their host, using their host as some sort of a step ladder to get closer to the light. Some thrive in full sun light, even close or in deserts, others die of it, shady places and lashings of humidity being their natural habitat. If you want to do a bit of research on them you'd want to wait for a less busy time on your farm. And be warned, to do a proper research will take a good few months of full occupation, so you might as well look for a manager not too close to pensionable age for your farm and get cracking. In the end you will be able to write a book on them. But then again, that might reduce your chances of getting a disability pension even further. Doesn't seem a good idea so.

My hands are pretty clumsy by now with little strength. But I still can hold a fag and get a glass of red or white to the right place, there is a danger of them dropping on their journey there and steins are getting too heavy for comfort, though. Ah well, that's life. Which ever way I will always enjoy good food accompanied by a good drop (before, during and after the meal). And my weight is still stable in spite of P. Lucky me.

Have a good weekend