Ponditis has dislocated wrist

Pond, you do not have to be good! There are all kinds of mischief you can get into with just one hand.... You can still lead a band and wave a baton while blowing a kazoo... That ought to get you lots of attention from the neighbors ;~)

Seriously though, I hope you heal quickley and the pain vanishes. ((((((((((((Pond)))))))))))))))

Zany, now I have a use for that kazoo that Mom gave me with the piano bench. Although I don't think I can twirl a baton anymore I used to be able to do that. But I CAN pump that same baton up and down like a drum major.

Thanks BS. I sure wish I could hold your little ones. Jazz would do if I can't hold the newest one. After all Jazz and I go wayyyyyy back. lol

Great Pond, while you are pumping the Drum Majors march and blowing your kazoo up and down the street you can also get a bit of excercise if you add a hula hoop and wiggle as you go....Let me know when you are ready to give it a go though....I want to sell tickets to the show.

You hear that, Pond???

They're trying to turn you into a one-woman band travelin' circus. No problem. You can do that with one hand while we're ridin' on Jet. Just serenade all the folks we pass with a wonder woman band!

You got a piano to go with that bench? If you do, can you play it? If you can, you can play with one hand, and I can play the other hand. We can make it a du-et!

DH, you still got that roll of tickets? Did you bring it with you? Oh good, you never know what people might pay to see !

If we make any profit, we can use it to buy more plants, as we travel along.

It's gonna get better, Lani, I promise.

I am real glad you are "behavin'." I know you're the one your family and friends always counts on to help them in need. But you can only do that if you're physically able. Your turn has come now.

Love and Hugs!!!!!!!!!

Zany, how did you know I used to do hula hoops and the traditional hula too? Did you know my name Lani is short for my middle name Leilani? Well, did ya? I was born in Hawaii and when my priest father baptised me he named my second middle name as Leilani. lol

When Zany can find a queen size hula hoop I will practice up with it. But I am leaving it to her to find one. Good luck. :)

As far as any money we make from me doing my "thing" I think I should get at least 60% of the plants that we buy with that money. After all we are driving my tractor and my trailer and it will be me doing the dancing and kazooing. Judith can play one piano with her two hands and I can play the other I own with my one hand or just turn on the current bush and it will play itself. So don't forget that current bush.

I have been behaving till now but look out world here I come. My taxes are all done!!!!! YIPPPPPEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

This one handed woman is on the march!

Yeeeeee-Haaawwww!!!!!!! She's ba-a-a-a-a-a-a-ack!!!!!!!!!!

Just goes t' show, you can't keep a good woman down!!!!

Somehow I just never pictured you as a Hi-wayan. Leilani????

Hula hoops? I remember having one. Never could shift my then skinny, bony hips fast enough to keep one of them things going.
I guess it was because my momma was so strict--NO dancing!
That and a serious lack of body coordination at that age.

I'm afraid that if I tried it now, one leg would fly off in one direction, and the other leg in the other direction. Be like a Rockette with two wooden legs flying off.

Queen-size hula hoops!!!!!!!! Now wonder where you could find one of those????

Gee Lani, if you gonna put on that kinda show for us, I'd be happy for you to get ALL of the plants!!!!!!

Now how about 'splaining about that current bush?

(Glad to see you back, Pond.)

Thanks Judith. I have to be careful how much time I spend here or the darn wrist starts telling me again how much it likes the pillow. I don't want it to take over and get spoiled so I tell it to just bare with me for a little while and we can all go rest.

This hawaiian was born with white blond hair and blue eyes so I can only claim it as the land of my birth.

The current bush is a lovely bush that has a lot of very nice things about it. At night it is at its most spectacular with all the lights in it lighting up and during the day it is using its leaves as solar panels collecting all the electricity for use at times during the day or night that someone needs to plug in for a jolt.

Ooh! That's cool!

Hope you're having a good night tonight!

I just got time to get back on DG right now. Had a long day of work. Staff came over for weekly meeting, always leave me paperwork & stuff to work on and clear up. Lord, those sweet people are working hard! I have trouble keeping up with them!

I've got a huge stack of billing to do to medicare, so I'm not complaining. Maybe we can start to gradually crawl up out of the red ink!!!!! Amazing thought!--actually make some money for a change, instead of using up my retirement money!

Lots of Hugs! Sleep well! Zzzzz z z z z z z z z

Ponditis, I have not been at my computer very much lately. Too much to do in the garden. Just got on this thread early this morning. Sorry you have been having such a problem with your wrist. Do take care and don't overdo. I have problems a lot with my right wrist and have worn out a couple of those wrist supports with the metal insert. Be good. Donna

Hey, Lani!

We can set up a code for you to make it easier:
K = SNAFU
? = better (# of ?'s = how much better)
X = worse (# of X's = how much worse)
TOS = tired of this ......
STHU = Shut the .... up and leave me alone!
And finally.... IGGYFT = I gonna get you for this!

Feel free to use these as appropriate to your feelings at the time. You're also allowed to add others to the list, as long as the translation is pretty clear.

Hugs!!

Judith, How about LOLOLOL for laughing really hard but still have my big butt?

I am sure glad it is you Judith doing that paperwork. If it was me it would sit in my office for quite a while. I don't think Medicare would appreciate my bookkeeping. lol

Zany, have you found my queen size hula hoop yet? I need to practice.

Donna, thank you for your concern. I had a brainstorm this morning (doesn't happen often) and I took my splint to the tack shop this morning and he is making me one out of leather and metal so that one should be pretty long lasting. I think it will be nice to have even if this wrist heals so I can support it when we are doing extra heavy type work here on our little farm/ranchette.

Glad to keep you chuckling!!!

BTW, that "?" was supposed to be a check mark. I guess my Mac's option keys don't work real good on this site!!!!

Some of that paperwork has been sitting here for quite a long while!!!! Just not the billing. Hey, I gotta make payroll whether there's income or not!!!!! But some income finally sure would be welcome, especially by my long-suffering DH!!

Yeah, blame the poor innocent computer! After all it is defenceless and mute. Poor little Mac. Shame on his Mommy.

I worked out in the yard today and kept my arm in a sling. It was harder to use the hoe but I finally got a rhythm going and got lots of weeds out of there. Now sitting here typing with one hand. It is hard work compared to two handed typing but someday my other hand can catch back up to its sister.

Just you be careful, Pond!

If you got my kinda luck, I'd stop hoeing for a minute, bend over to determine with my bifocals what kind of plant I just chopped down, yep, it wasn't a weed, move my foot to keep my balance, and thereby step on the business end of the hoe, causing the handle of it to flip over toward me, just manage to perfectly nail the worst part of the wrist, just hard enough to dislocate it again!

Life, at least for me, is funny like that!

I drop just one ice cube from the freezer to my glass and where does it strike? The most painful part of my foot, of course. All that nice floor all around it, even two cats inspecting my work at my feet---Naah! Gotta hit that especially painful spot!

Pore little Mac indeed! How was I to know the net doesn't understand my Mac's keyboard options? Dumb software! I know what I'm trying t' say!!! And my Mac knows what I'm trying t' say!!!!

Wizen up, net, I say!!!!!!! Be a sight more accommodatin'!!!!!

I tried to make a Large size Hula Hoop out of a piece of garden hose but it is not stiff enough. Maybe I can borrow one of the rings around the moon tonight for you instead? I am sorry I can't try it out for you first to see if it will work but it is too small to fit my waist.

OH WOW.. I just saw this. Pond, I hope you are doing better, I will keep you in my thoughts!

OUCH

Thanks Melissa. I am feeling better now. Drugs help me at night when it wakes me with the throbbing that seems to only hit at night. (I wonder why that is?) I sure hope this keeping it from doing anything will make it heal properly. I do NOT want to have another surgery on my wrist. Mainly because it is spring and I have too much to do outside and with DH out of town a lot I need to try to get ahead a little out there.

Judith I don't normally put the hoe where it can do such things to me as whack me in the face. Besides the hoe I mainly am using right now is just the same size as my hoe handle which wouldn't make much of a dent my my hard head.

Zany, I am NOT going to be able to do a hula hoop with a hose around my waist. Those moon rings need to stay up there for my grandchildren to see so don't take any of those. ( of course, I don't have any grandchildren yet :) )

Woke up this morning to a broken toilet. Poor DH has been trying to install it all afternoon and now that the store is closed for the weekend he figured out that the tank they sold me doesn't fit the base and I asked for a handicapped base and this one isn't any taller than the one we took out. Arghhhhhhhhhh

Anyway someday I will have a bathroom that really works. Lucky for us we have a second bathroom but unlucky for us it is up a flight of 15 stairs. sigh I guess I just won't drink anything this weekend.

Yeah, we have one of those 15-stair upstairs. If the one downstairs isn't working, I think I'd just step outside in the bushes.

Our downstairs BR gets a lot of traffic right now, with me working at home. In addition to DH & I, my employees use it when they're here.

It's not really working right. The lever-connected to the chain-connected to the plop (inside hole cover) hangs up about 80% of the time. So we're always having to go back in and jiggle the lever to stop it from running. (Like I feel like getting back up again!)

I always wait until the plop settles properly before leaving. But only a few of my employees understand this complex concept. Oh well, I hired psych people, not engineers.

DH long ago bought the fixer parts, which are still sitting beside the throne mocking the occupant. Often I'm convinced that box is laughing at me!

DH is a mechanical engineer--one reason I married him!!! HeeHee

Now I, on the other hand, am mechanically challenged. Any tool with a long handle is mechanical equipment to me. I could kill myself with a mop! You'd have a real hoot watching me chasing our self-propelled vacuum cleaner (well, back when I used to be able to do that kind of thing).

So I usually can create great havoc with any complex mechanical device such as a hoe. I probably would recognize a hammer, pliers, and a screwdriver if they fell on me, as long as I was still conscious.

I have countless pairs of scissors with only one "leg" on them. I keep forgetting to go get the kitchen knife when I need a screwdriver, hammer, or pliers.

You don't have grandchildren either? What is it with our kids??

Our son is our only child. He wants to get his career off and running and some money in the bank or a home bought before he gets involved with a woman. He will make some wonderful woman a very happy girl. He cooks. sews. does dishes every three months (whether they need it or not) and he can vaccuum and dust and do his own laundry too. Oh and he can mop floors and do yard work too. Not too shabby is it?

I am much more mechanical for some things than my hubby is and whatever we can't figure out our son can.

Gotta get to bed and get this arm up again. good night.

Your son sounds like a great catch for some lucky woman!

Yeah, that's the excuse our daughters use too, career, money, financial security--all very laudable reasons, 10 years ago!

But with one now 30 and the other 43, I'm beginning to lose hope! Neither are married, nor concerned about it one way or the other. I guess I'll be grandmother-less. Oh well, I have my kitties, and my garden, and my sweet DH. What more can I ask???

I really have not ever mentioned it to either of them. I'm not a naggy mom. It just occurs to me at times when the subject comes up in conversation with others.

Does that mean I'm getting too old to dream????????????? LOL

Oh, Lani, being so busy I missed this thread
So sorry to hear of your accident, and so pleased to hear you are now on the mend!!

Thinking of you
I broke bones in my hand a long time ago - but can still remember the ouch, so hope yours mends VERY quickly
Hugs from Hilary :)

Thanks so much Hilary for your sympathy. I didn't realize just how much sympathy I would get for this wrist problem but it sure has been nice. lol Sometimes I get to thinking that I don't need any sympathy but I like it. :) It does feel better now but I am really worried that it might need further surgery and I try not to think about that but I am sure you know how easy that isn't. I pray your move goes well dear friend. Talk to you soon when you get settled. Hugs.

Judith, maybe one of your girls would like a younger man when they get more ready? Then we could both spoil their kids and send them home to their parents. Our son wants plenty of kids just not now. sigh. I guess I have my animals too and his best friends were going to bring their baby over now and then but they moved to Seattle right before the first baby was born and now they have two babies, the bums. I mean they should be ashamed of taking their babies away from me and their natural grandmother.

Well, I must agree about taking the babies away!! Such soullessness!

Maybe we could arrange for you son to meet my daughters when he's ready. Course, it probably wouldn't hit at the same time my daughters are ready! Ain't that just the way it goes!

I don't hold out much hope for the older one. She works really insane schedules. But, she might be willing to give some of that up with a baby to care for. She says she wants kids, but I think she would prefer a ready-made family. You know, marry a man who already has children old enough to fend for themselves. That way, it wouldn't matter so much when she's away from home for weeks, once and a while months, at a time. Such is the life in LA.

My youngest seems content right now with a cat and a dog, and her "new to her" house and yard, her job, and camping out and fishing on weekends. This can't be my kid!!! Camping out to me is staying at the Holiday Inn, and I prefer my fish cooked or at least already fileted. Maybe if I was younger?????

Hmmm the younger one sounds pretty good. Our son loves his kitties and his puppy too. He also has fallen for my horse and LOVES to cook. Camping, fishing and hunting is fun to him (I have gotten tool stiff in the mornings to sleep on the ground let alone at night when I have to "go"). lol An arranged marriage on the move here. LOLOLOL

Wouldn't they be SUPRISED?

(evil laugh) Bwahahahahaha

Goodnight, drugs are making me sleepy now. I might be back up in a couple hours though. lol

Sounds like a well-hatched plan to me. DD has all the modern conveniences for camping. She just bought herself a fishing boat & trailer. She knows where all the mosquito heavens, uh, state parks are around here, and many that aren't.

Competing grandmaw's! Now that would be a hoot! Those kids would be real pistols!

Nite, nite.

Ohhhh a fishing boat and trailer sounds better and better all the time. lol I love to go fishing but hubby hates it. Isn't that they way? If I had hated to go fishing it would have been his life.

But I don't want my Grandkids or my cooking son to live in Florida so I am not going to tell him about your daughter. I think that is only fair. lololol

My wrist is hurting a lot tonight so I am going to call it a night very soon. throb throb. you know how it goes.

Sorry you're in pain, Lani.

Now don't be greedy, for the sake of our children, please!
Besides, as much as my daughter loves to be on the road traveling, they'd probably be driving back and forth between FL and ID constantly. She'd love it. They could camp along the way.

I like fishing pretty well, but my DH hates to be on the water in a boat. Funny, his folks lived in Panama for a while when he was growing up and they fished all the time!

You could visit down here and we could go fishing! We have lakes all over the place, and are only 6 miles from the Gulf of Mexico (well, from the south city limits). We could go deep sea fishing. That's fun, but it's a lot of reeling in and out. I' really rather fish on a lake or river. And you already got all those ponds! Course, we'd have to put my recliner on board!

You could have your winter garden down here, and I could have my summer garden up there!

Oh well, nite, nite, hope you sleep well.

hmmmm I wonder what it would cost to ship me overnight UPS?

Are you trying to kill us already? I heard you have crockagaters down there. Why, they eat fat people like me.

Na-a-ah! Them crocks live in Gainesville!

We got Indians here, but they're peaceable. We get along great, no problems.

Now armadillos are a different thing altogether!

An' we can tie rocks on your feet t' keep the skeeters from totin' you off!

Some fab plots being hatched here LOL! ;)
I'm giggling along with you...

Will be in touch when feet touch ground. All going pretty well - the normal odd hiccups - we'd worry what was happening if not *g*

Indians we have some here too. Our home is built on a former wintering ground from what we have been told and an old Indian graveyard is on the hill above us. Former owners of our house found lots of arrowheads here. I hope we find some over the years.

Mosquitos don't carry me away cause I poison the things with my bad blood. lol Actually if they could carry me away I would already be gone because our home is in a swampy area. We have to wear nets during the summer when we are out in our pastures because we can't afford to spray the whole place for the bugs. Besides then what would the bats eat?

I have never seen a live armadillo. They are what we call cugly here both cute and ugly. A face only a mother could love but still cute with a weird back like a shell. God sure had a sense of humor when he designed the critters that inhabit our blue planet.

I am looking forward to Hilary telling us about the critters that inhabit her new stomping grounds. That will be interesting.

Well, bedtime again. These new pills are really helping my sleep patterns. I sleep all day AND all night too.

LOL Pond, I could do with some of those!
Last few days frantic packing now...

Yes, I've always thought armadillos were lovely critters til hearing about their ways on DG
Will definitely be keeping you up to date with what I find in France.
We have a little bet going as to who's going to be the first in the family to see a wild boar :)

It will be better to see it than to run into it when it is mad, Hillary. Then you can eat it for dinner. With a little bar-b-que sauce I bet they taste really good. :)


I have to agree that I had never heard anything negative about armadillos till DG either. I always wanted one for a pet. lol Now maybe I don't cause if it dug up my garden I wouldn't be very happy with it.

Those last minute packing marathons are not my idea of fun. But you will have fun after you are somewhat settled in your new home in the country.

I haven't found any arrowheads, only the usual building materials that contractors cover up with mostly builder's sand, rather than collecting and disposing of them as they should. Now I find out I should have saved all those rusty nails for my hydrangeas!

For the sake of humanity in general in FL, you now are obligated to visit to slay your share of mosquitoes with your bad blood. You'll have to stay year round, though. We have the really big ones in January. They're the ones who survived from the summer--big hairy things with razor-sharp serrated double-edged swords for beaks, or whatever you call it on insects.

The only "cugly" armadillo I ever saw was one morning around 6am, still dark. My first encounter with the BEAST. Never saw one before. Didn't know what it was! I just looked at it curiously along with the two neighborhood cats who were "guarding" it.

Silly me! I should have shot that sucker right then. It was the great-grandma/pa of the herd we have now that have who, along with uprooting and eating roots off my tender plants, dug a tunnel under our house (concrete slab) from under the back deck to the front yard uprooting one of my really huge azaleas! You gotta love 'em!!

That barbecued boar sounds tasty!

Philomel, keep us posted on your new experiences at your new location, as well as along the way. I very much hope that your move goes smoothly and everything winds up as it should be at the destination. I saw pictures I think that you posted, as I recall, of your new home. It's beautiful, and I would love to come for a visit if I was still able to survive the trip. Alas!

Lani, I'm really glad you have found a medication that helps you sleep. What's wrong with sleeping around the clock??? My kitties do it all the time, and seem none the worse for the habit.

BTW, Pond, besides sweet corn, potatoes, rocks, good kids, and you, what plants do you have in your garden?

As the truckers say, "catch you both on the flip side."

LOL we have flipped. I mean really flipped. Looney tunes.

What plants do I have in my garden? Hmmm besides the ever present weeds? Or do you want to know what my weeds are since they are the most prevalent out there?

I've already said, "What's a weed?"

Whatever grows in my yard is a good plant. Whatever doesn't must have been a weed, who needed it anyway?

Yeah, I really want to know. I've always lived in the South, visited a few other places, including Spokane and CA. What do you have?

OK here you go. I have hostas, daylilies, iris, tulips, daffodils, crocus, trumpet and oriental lilies, aritchokes, tricolor sage, hostas, bamboo, hyacynth, honeysuckle, trumpet vine, mums, Japanese maples, heuchera, rose campion, hostas, daylilies, hostas, did I say hostas?, and lots more that I can't think of right now and it is pouring rain outside.

I wonder if I said hostas and daylilies?

Hey, Pond!!! Check in with "On the Road Again." You just missed Mollybee. Posted about same time as you.

Oh, I love all of those! But you didn't say whether or not you had hostas and daylilies!!!!!

Well, I have reservations about some types of bamboo, at least down here. It almost covered me up once in GA! Been scared to try it again in his climate and my small space. Certainly wouldn't want to turn it loose in the woods on my poor unsuspecting neighbors!

You get to have all those lovely bulbs! Most of the usual spring bulbs don't do well here, even irises. Not enough cold weather. And I sure can't go out and dig them up every year and store them in the frig.

My daylilies do well, as do hostas. But the deer think hostas are a food crop. Chomp 'em right to the ground! I have three brave souls tentatively pushing up above ground. Hope they escape the deer this year. Every day, I look out the window and am surprised to see them still there!!

What kinds/colors of daylilies and other lilies do you have?

We do have a Japanese Maple. I think it must be a dwarf variety. It's been there for at least a dozen years. Has grown gradually and is now quite spreading and beautiful, but not over 3' high.

Lets see, I have pink, white, purple, green, red, lavender, yellow, more pink, peach, and several I haven't seen bloom yet. I love the eyed ones and that is what I am trying to get now but I succumb to others too. As far as hostas go my tastes runs to all of them. lol I am a daylily hosta addict and there is no cure for it. I hear it isn't a fatal disease but it is expensive to get help for it.

So far my bamboo is well behaved. The only one that might get loose from us is across our big pond and hopefully in the future will screen us from the falling down house and mobile home across the road from us. If that one escapes the fence I have sheep that will eat it back to the fence. The others are in a raised bed until we decide where we want them and I am collecting stainless steel to corral it when we finally put it in its permanent places. The few extras we have had have been sold immediately upon saying so to other Master Gardeners here.

We have five Japanese maples and want lots more eventually. It is fun deciding what to do with this acreage.

This is hard work to type one handed. lol I can't wait till Tuesday evening when this brace comes off and I can use the hand again. I just hope it works that we have kept it stable for two weeks.