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Kathleen Panama, NY(Zone 5a) Apr 28, 2003

It has been a glorious day and I made good use of it. Stan cleaned out from under a wood pile in the basement last week and put the results in the bed where I hope to plant veggies this year. I put down wet newspapers, spread the mulchy stuff over them and then he brought me a highlift bucket load of fresh dirt from the newly plowed field, which I made a start with, but have lots left to move.

This evening, I thought I'd do some long overdue weeding out in the middle rock garden and I took my kneeling pads and my bare fists out and worked around the vole holes. Then I moved the pads to a rock that I've used as a base in the past, knelt down and discovered that it had tilted slightly toward the garden over the winter. Suddenly, it wasn't my knees that were on the pad, but my left hip, my left elbow in one of the entrance holes to the vole condo. I decided as long as I was down there, I might as well pull the rampant grass and dandelions. When weeding, lying down on the job ain't all it might seem. I think it took me 10 minutes to get up! There is a little clear space and I found that I have a few seedlings of Lobelia syphilictica (?) just hanging around in awkward places if anyone is interested. I don't, however, think that I will do weeding from other than a sitting or kneeling position again.

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Baa Apr 28, 2003

So you were caught lying down on the job!

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gardenwife Newark, OH(Zone 5b) Apr 28, 2003

Ah, Kathleen, there's nothing like that sinking feeling, huh?

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MaryE Baker City, OR(Zone 5b) Apr 28, 2003

You really got close to your work today.

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lupinelover Grove City, OH(Zone 6a) Apr 28, 2003

Brave woman working bare-handed around vole holes! So glad you weren't hurt!

And remember 'let's be careful out there!' We need you around for a long time to come :)

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