Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Your Neck of the Woods 2015 Part 5, 4 by speediebean

speediebean wrote:
HollyAnn, that looks like a fun site, I think I'll be visiting that while I have the time, thank you for sharing that. :) Kind of scary, I have the time for a new addiction right now. ;)

Critter, oh yes, heat is wonderful on the face! Thankfully we have a new water heater so I can stand in the shower with boiling water beating down on my face and have no fear of emptying the tank, ha! .. well, OK, not really "boiling" water, heh heh. Sadly, I have taken Tegretol (and a slew of others... Amitriptyline, Nortriptyline, Imipramine, Gabapentin, Phenytoin, Valproate, Lithium, Clonazepam, Valproic Acid...I don't remember what all else), and they have all been equally horrible; they either did nothing to touch the pain, or they knocked me on my butt and had my blood levels in the toxic range and my liver threatening to jump out in just a couple of days.
My guess is there are differences between TN and the headaches you 2 experience. My experiences include no headache involvement at all, it's strictly the waves of sporadic, lancing facial pain; usually in V2 and V3, but occasionally V1 as well.

Meanwhile... I think I might have a pic or 2 of that "Big Shed" around here somewhere... ;)

First, there she is! The concrete ramp was poured free-hand, and I think he did a pretty good job of it.
The second shot shows the right side of it, where.. "somewhere" along there I'm gonna put a Ruby Falls Weeping Redbud within a curved bed beside that side of the shed. That will be my "Disneyland", where I can play with plants as much as I want. (the rest of the bones will have to stay put).
The (next-to-the) last pic shows the left side, where we will install a little hedgerow of .. I'm thinking Soft Touch Hollies along that concrete base. The rest of that soil will be improved, and then sown with a shade-loving grass seed. There's nothing but shade back there, and you can see it is right next to the wood line.

OK,.. REALLY the last pic.. heh heh. Here's how it looks from the deck. Really not all that intrusive and huge at all! :)