Accessible Gardening: Practical Matters for Physically Challenged Gardeners #15, 1 by Amargia

Amargia wrote:
I'm proud of you, Vickie I'm amazed at how the woman's liberation rhetoric disappears when the dog's kill something. The ladies have decided cleaning up dog gruesome's is "guy's work." lol.

I would love for you to have a camera. I think all the daylily pics Debra (lovemyhouse) posted were taken with a cell phone. The cable to connect the phone to the computer usually comes with a new cell phone. If not, the cable is easy to come by. The electronics department at Wall-Mart usually carries them. I want to upgrade my digital camera to a Canon EOS Rebel, but every time I've saved up for it something happens and I have to use the money elsewhere. I found a great deal on a van this time. I needed a vehicle I could get my w/c in and out of easily more than I needed a new camera.
Kay reminded me of a food item not locally available that I would have a very hard time doing without. Wheat! She also raised an issue I hadn't considered. Not that long ago, when it was normal to eat only local foods, people developed regional deficiencies. If the soil is lacking something, the plant and animal foods that come from that soil will also be lacking something. She said her sister who grew up in Arkansas and Oklahoma developed a goiter due to iodine deficiency. (I guess salt wasn't iodized in those days.) Army recruiters ind WWII spotted the problem also. Health problems making people unfit for service tended to cluster in certain regions. To maintain our health, I suspect CSA's and food exchanges are going to be a necessary part of the future. (Jim)

Photos: In the final stretch of autumn, pink has left yellow in its dust. The hydrangea blooms are even more spectacular now than they were when it was warm. It was too windy to outside so we did a vase of our flowers.