What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

Trimmed up the elderberry cuttings. I potted up 64 little cuttings and have about 37 I’ll just stick straight in the ground. (That’s what he said to do. I’ll take his advice since he’s done it before. ) so hopefully I’ll have about a 100 elderberry plants come to life in the spring.

Fan-damn-tastic! OMG! That is so awesome! I have one struggling bush left on the fence line. Neighbor never put up his hotwire. SO the cattle ate everything within 4 feet reach of my side of the fence. Lost a magnolia tree, several elderberry bushes, a few two year old grape vines, and several bird houses. Only bonus was that I didn't have to mow or weed whack within 4 feet of the fence.

Downside is that I have a LOT of fence to repair this winter. Fences are responsibility of those each side of the fence in this state. But he hasn't TOUCHED it in the 20 years since he put it up. I mend it to keep his cattle out of my property. I reset and restretched the whole thing along my property last winter. And he let them destroy it this summer for not putting up his hot wire. My time, my money, NOT my fence or my cattle, annoying as hell.

 

[WthrLady]

With arthritis in my hands so bad I wear a mans small work gloves but
also women's long johns keep my bad knees warm

Ya. I wear small men's gloves too. They fit better than women's and are constructed for REAL work. My problem are my feet. I get chilblains. Such a pain, no pun intended. LOL.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have nephropathy from chemicals so have no feeling in my feet just bees but the way I love your avatar with the lama

 

[WthrLady]

Oh Joy. You poor thing.

Mine is blood vessels that shut down when my feet and legs get cold (have had frost bite in the past that screwed it all up) and when I warm up, my feet warm up faster than the vessels open, causing painful spots where the vessels pop. Like little angry beads under my skin. At night, as they warm up in bed, I get the bees for about 30 min-an hour.

Thanks. That's Stormy, my youngest alpaca, and my biggest pain in the butt.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Okay pain in the butt they can be I have never considered poor me get up and do otherwise lay down and die I am stubborn will not give my laundry list here but was taught to work on

 

[WthrLady]

LOL. I'm the same way!
OK NO poor you. Just another thing that makes us special and drives us through the day

I'm an 'is what it is' kind of person.

I guess he's really not a pain in the butt. He's only a year old, and the ranch I got him from never handled him or haltered him. So he's a whirlwind that needs tamed.

 

[dan26552]

Fan-damn-tastic! OMG! That is so awesome! I have one struggling bush left on the fence line. Neighbor never put up his hotwire. SO the cattle ate everything within 4 feet reach of my side of the fence. Lost a magnolia tree, several elderberry bushes, a few two year old grape vines, and several bird houses. Only bonus was that I didn't have to mow or weed whack within 4 feet of the fence.

Downside is that I have a LOT of fence to repair this winter. Fences are responsibility of those each side of the fence in this state. But he hasn't TOUCHED it in the 20 years since he put it up. I mend it to keep his cattle out of my property. I reset and restretched the whole thing along my property last winter. And he let them destroy it this summer for not putting up his hot wire. My time, my money, NOT my fence or my cattle, annoying as hell.

Yeah! Well that seriously sucks! That’s pretty awful.

 

[dan26552]

Went to take a few petunia cuttings...... 72 Cuttings later....

 

[pennyJo1960]

your a over achiever there @dan26552 make the rest of us look bad ya know but keep posting as at least we can see what we may do in 4 months

 

[dan26552]

your a over achiever there @dan26552 make the rest of us look bad ya know but keep posting as at least we can see what we may do in 4 months

I’m not the over achiever. It’s the wild petunias that won’t die even though every thing else has been killed by freezes. Grass, canna lilies, bananas, pumpkins, roses, trees.