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[CapricornFarm]

Your garden is about twice the size of mine, Cap. Good job!

DH went back to the edge of the timber and brought up two tractor buckets of soil for me to use to fill my last two tomato planters.

After I plant my last two tomatoes and a short row of pole beans I'm pretty much good to go with the exception of a few odds and ends. After years of planting in ground gardens I thought that planting just containers would feel 'weird but it doesn't. It feels like quite the accomplishment.

Good morning all. Another hot day ahead of us here with temps in the 90s. First part of the month felt like March, a week later and it feels like July. Go figure

Actually both my second veggie garden and my flower garden are bigger than the original garden! But the newer one is where we are supposed to have a garage built, so i have to move stuff out of there.
I bought some marked down plants, but forgot to get more mulch. Too busy getting feed at Rural King.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Got allot planted today but body is wacked and brain.

 

[silverhair67]

good morning

 

[silverhair67]

good morning

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning Old Folks I am the only one that hates double verififcation.

 

[Peep_Show]

Good afternoon, all!
I'm so far behind on my life, I need a gap year to catch up.

Busy time of year here. Envious of those that have their gardens in. Somebody asked if I was planting a garden this year. If only it were as simple as plopping a plant or seed into the earth! Transporting the compost and fertilizer, rototilling it into the ground and beds, smoothing, setting up irrigation lines/system, THEN planting, followed by installing protection from marauders, then a lot of praying.

Been kind of immobilized with bone-on-bone knees. Hard to keep up daily life if you cannot motate effectively and just walking across the room is painful to the point of breathless. Got some cortisone relief, but that only lasted 2 months. Doc is reluctant to do surgery because of my elevated BMI, but physical therapist says that's not true and that those far above my heft have received the surgery. The Catch-22 is that I need to lose weight for the surgery to regain mobility and in order to lose weight you need mobility. Argh! But I count my blessings as my health problems could be far more dire.

My chicken flock is still producing well despite being well into henopause age. I'm in the process of hatching replacements.

Sorry to have been out of the loop so long. Life got in the way.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Still have carrot seed to stick in the ground too
be Christmas before they are ready ..
Wed have a short growing season the last few years.

 

[Alaskan]

Good afternoon, all!
I'm so far behind on my life, I need a gap year to catch up.

Busy time of year here. Envious of those that have their gardens in. Somebody asked if I was planting a garden this year. If only it were as simple as plopping a plant or seed into the earth! Transporting the compost and fertilizer, rototilling it into the ground and beds, smoothing, setting up irrigation lines/system, THEN planting, followed by installing protection from marauders, then a lot of praying.

Been kind of immobilized with bone-on-bone knees. Hard to keep up daily life if you cannot motate effectively and just walking across the room is painful to the point of breathless. Got some cortisone relief, but that only lasted 2 months. Doc is reluctant to do surgery because of my elevated BMI, but physical therapist says that's not true and that those far above my heft have received the surgery. The Catch-22 is that I need to lose weight for the surgery to regain mobility and in order to lose weight you need mobility. Argh! But I count my blessings as my health problems could be far more dire.

My chicken flock is still producing well despite being well into henopause age. I'm in the process of hatching replacements.

Sorry to have been out of the loop so long. Life got in the way.

It really is tough.... I have a couple of friends that have done knee replacement.

Sadly the replacement has a long and painful recovery period. Once through that, they say it is "worth it". But wow... long tunnel of pain to crawl through...



Maybe since the shot helped... you could do the shot, work hard on some weight loss, to get ready for the surgery.

BUT, I think you have to wait several months after the shot before you can have a surgery (forget now how that shot messes up the surgery... but it does...). So. . Then you are stuck, once again, not moving from the pain, and having to not gain weight while you can't move.

Really .... bites.

Again.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Good afternoon, all!
I'm so far behind on my life, I need a gap year to catch up.

Busy time of year here. Envious of those that have their gardens in. Somebody asked if I was planting a garden this year. If only it were as simple as plopping a plant or seed into the earth! Transporting the compost and fertilizer, rototilling it into the ground and beds, smoothing, setting up irrigation lines/system, THEN planting, followed by installing protection from marauders, then a lot of praying.

Been kind of immobilized with bone-on-bone knees. Hard to keep up daily life if you cannot motate effectively and just walking across the room is painful to the point of breathless. Got some cortisone relief, but that only lasted 2 months. Doc is reluctant to do surgery because of my elevated BMI, but physical therapist says that's not true and that those far above my heft have received the surgery. The Catch-22 is that I need to lose weight for the surgery to regain mobility and in order to lose weight you need mobility. Argh! But I count my blessings as my health problems could be far more dire.

My chicken flock is still producing well despite being well into henopause age. I'm in the process of hatching replacements.

Sorry to have been out of the loop so long. Life got in the way.

I sure hope you can get some relief!

 

[CapricornFarm]

It really is tough.... I have a couple of friends that have done knee replacement.

Sadly the replacement has a long and painful recovery period. Once through that, they say it is "worth it". But wow... long tunnel of pain to crawl through...



Maybe since the shot helped... you could do the shot, work hard on some weight loss, to get ready for the surgery.

BUT, I think you have to wait several months after the shot before you can have a surgery (forget now how that shot messes up the surgery... but it does...). So. . Then you are stuck, once again, not moving from the pain, and having to not gain weight while you can't move.

Really .... bites.

Again.

You can only have steroids every so often and steroids hinder healing.