Gardening, music, life with MS
Most of the time I like a rogue plant. By rogue, I mean a plant that reseeds itself in strange, sometimes unwanted spaces. I’ve had tomatoes in the rose garden and also in a shade garden. I have Black Eyed Susan’s in with some Hellebores and Variegated Liriope, (the garden with the mossy head). This […]
Here it is 143.2 lbs. I expected this or more. This time I am really noticing how big my stomach and thighs are. For the first time there are clothes that DO NOT FIT AT ALL! So far I’ve taken a top and today a pair of jeans off and put them right in the […]
The past few weeks I have been very busy cleaning out all of the beds. I have made real progress, all the beds are done except for my favorite main perennial, (the largest) garden. It is cleaned up and I have moved the Coneflowers and the groundcover little yellow flowers from the back to the […]
This past Saturday I made plans with another friend from the garden shop, Stevie. We work together on Wednesday’s and we’ve gotten to know each other. We have different backgrounds but we also have quite a few things in common; (age, politics, divorced moms, religion and of course gardening). Anyhow, her boyfriend was going away […]
My sister. She is 9 years older than me and my only sister. She told me from a very early age that “we can never be close because of the difference in our age.” Very hurtful, as she has been my entire life. I have friends older than she is. The same time she said […]
It started about a month ago. The garden shop shut down for renovations, (painting and new carpet). I didn’t know how I would feel but as time went on, I felt myself turning inward to the same old worries and obsessions. The things I push aside to go about daily living came soaring back. The […]
I knew this one would be more; 142.8, I feel it and I look it. What to do? I need to get serious, yet I’m not ready to commit. I understand there are exercises I can do with MS but honestly none of them appeal to me. They all seem like work. Without MS I […]
We have been feeding the birds, one feeder outside the kitchen window, and the suet feeder outside the bedroom window. We have the usual, Tufted Titmouse, House Wren, Yellow Finches, and Northern Cardinals. The suet attracts some others such as, the Red Bellied Woodpecker (seen below), the Bluebird (seen below), and also the finches and […]
The weather has been so great. We got back Tuesday and Wednesday I was in the garden. I started where I left off with the lilies, (there were 2 that I didn’t get to). I did one and couldn’t help but notice what a horrible mess the adjacent bed was in. In this bed I […]
President’s Day weekend – Left Friday am and came home Tuesday am. Best trip as far as traffic. We took my Highlander, which I was excited about because I can drive it wherever I want (because of the hand controls). We went up so P could help my son finish putting up the cabinets in […]