John's Journal

This is from my son John.

There is a Carolina Wren building a nest in a bird house mounted on a back porch post. They have done this for several years and it is absolutely astonishing how many insects they feed the young ones. They don’t poop near the nest (porch) and they carry the poop from the young birds away I think not to give away there nest location. This has to be there second brood and they spent last winter in the bird house. Welcome back CWs. John

What caused my trip to the hospital were heart arrhythmias. The symptoms can be a fluttering in your chest, a racing heartbeat, a slow heartbeat, chest pain, shortness of breath, lightheadedness, dizziness or fainting or near fainting and I have every damn one of them. Along with heart arrhythmias comes an increased chance of blood clots so the Doc put me on Coumadin (rat poison). As a result of that most of my other meds have to be changed and fine tuned which requires weekly blood tests, med adjustment and retesting. I feel like a porcupine turned inside out. I have to eat the same amount of vitamin K every day as it affects the Coumadin and could have very bad results. The table below shows various vegetable and the vitamin K they contain. Keeping track of my diet past and planning future diets for the amounts of vitamin K would be a hassle so I plan to avoid vegetables with high levels of vitamin K. As a result I will be giving many veggies away this year.

I have started planning next year’s garden as to what to plant where and the spacing and nutrient requirements.