Carolina Gardening: Let's get to know one another.., 1 by 1gardengram

1gardengram wrote:
Thank you all for your good wishes. I will be having surgery again on Monday. A disc we repaired during one of the previous surgeries has popped out again and is causing problems. It will be good to have it fixed, but it still is not the area of the worst pain. In my very lower back, the muscles and vertebra are inflamed and I have to just wait it out. We can't do anything there this time around.

I am going to use my long-handled weed puller thingie like crazy between now and Monday and get everything fertilized that I haven't gotten to yet. I'll make sure all things inside and out are thoroughly watered.

I can relate to all of what you said above. I have severe degenerative arthritis, plus I have worked so hard all of my life and my back took the brunt of it. I ran a commercial fishing boat for ten years, I've worked with horses and big dogs, done a lot of heavy yard work and some light construction. You do what you have to do when you are younger and then pay the price as you get older. I used to work for a man that said if he had known he was going to live so long he would have taken better care of himself. I laughed at the time, but I now can surely relate to that!!

My friend is going to take care of my dog again. She loves my dog as much as I do and is tickled to death to be able to keep her for a couple of weeks. This is Maggie. She makes me laugh every day and she hasn't a mean bone in her whole body. Boy, can she snore!!

I hope you post pictures of each other on this thread so that I can "meet" you and see all the goodies you find.

Talk to you all soon.