Kickas.org Forums Ankylosing Spondylitis General Discussion #1 AS Web Support Group I am The Garden Goddess!

That is just awesome news, you should be very proud of yourself. Sorry that Cody cant drive much anymore- I hope that he also can come right. Thanks for sharing your good news- although you do make me feel quite lazy.

Hello from Her Majesty's Commonwealth Realm of New Zealand! How are you at telling a New Zealand and Australian accent apart? It seems people have trouble with that.
Sounds like there are a few gardeners here, I've had a wee go at planting things around the place and quite enjoy it especially when they grow!
Brendy

Holy Cow Bridge, how did you do all that?
Hail to the Garden Goddes
I just spent 4 days in bed from being on the tractor last week. Found out I can't do that anymore too hard to get myself up into the cab let alone get down. Hubby has to lift me in and out.
Cindy

aloha, bg

WOW! that's a lot of stuff and little peanut to care for too.

spring is hittin' early in the east...my cherry tree is fully blossomed this year ten days prior to last year's date. i have the stuff around the cave well cleaned up...peonies poppin',lilacs coming soon...the crocuses are gone but still have daffodils and some tulips...the phlox is back vigorously this spring...so pretty

i'll do the vegetable garden again this year, have seed potatos
rippening up to sprout and a lot of little peat pots with sprouting seeds soon to be ready...april 29/30 we get into
the comunity garden...so i'm all ready and this year has to be better than last.

soo good to hear from you
pu liki

Congrats Bridget,

Hopefully this relief from AS can continue through summer, fall, winter, spring, summer, fall, winter, spring.... I will stop, you get the Picture

Tim

How's our 'garden goddess' today? Not too exhuasted I hope.

I was wring dry and just did not achieve all that I should of today!

Chick-chucks are chickens - whom I also refer to as 'pussy cts'... So, there I was in the garden, chucking away to the chicks, my neighbour was painting the shed prior to putting it up for me, when from over the wall, next door but one, came the small voice: "Are you all right?" Fine, I responded, you? "Yes. Going good. Glad y're OK." Was only after, when my neighbour pointed out that I had been soooo busy talking daft chuck-chick conversaion that the poor lad on the other side of the wall must have thought that I'd *finally lost it...!!

Rockery, is a raised plant bed, stuck with rocks 'artistically' placed and planted inbetween. Dunnot how 'artistic' mine will be, but will have a stab at it... My other neighbour has a ton of rocks that he is willing to donate - great boulders, so dunno 'how' we're going to haul, heave and plant em. Strewth. (Just might have to be happy to use smaller rocks as opposed to socking great boulders!)

From your 'Commonwealth Cousin' - an you better take care cousin, you hear? NO overdoing it.

Please slow down, I hate eating dust. You trying to make everyone else look bad? Sounds like you had a great day. We all need one of those every once in awhile. I bet you are smiling ear to ear. These are the times that make life worth living.

I am glad you are feeling well and are able to get things done. I hope this was one of many "good days" you are having.

Sometimes I have found it easier to roll large rocks. You can roll one of those large rocks even if it is too heavy to lift. You might need to pry it loose with a pry bar or something that to get it started. You can wedge one end under an edge and use as a lever. Just be careful, you can really hurt something doing that.
Donna

Ahh! I think the people who owned our place before us may have had a rockery . . . there's a very odd raised bed around our garage that's filled with rocks and weeds . . . I've got plans for it but it'll take a lot of work to get it cleaned out and planted! Around here we've got quite a few rocks that we don't want . . . especially in the mountains. Here we're in the "foothills" I guess you'd call it . . . the place between plains and mountains. We don't come across many rocks in our soil so the previous inhabitants must have imported these rocks!

I'm sorry if I made anyone feel inadequate, but I think I've got a disease. I grew up on a farm, so I CAN"T HELP IT! I MUST garden, it's a genetic necessity . . . we got this property almost virgin, I have 2.5 acres to plan for, and I have a hill, and an arroyo (low place where water flows during storms . . . ) and I have so much to do here. And I sat on my BUTT all winter (from Jan. 3rd on) doing nothing but playing Farmtown on facebook in that stupid awful flare, so I've got all this guilt (and fat . . . lol) built up and when you have a good spring day, you just HAVE to overdo it, y'know? Even if it just means getting a sunburn, you HAVE TO. And once I get into the dirt, I lose track of time . . . and then 4 hours have gone by and I haven't eaten or drank anything and if I stop for 10 minutes my body seizes up like concrete . . . but DANG it feels good. and I pay for it for days, but ohhh . . . you should've seen me, 9 months pregnant, in the snow, DEMANDING that Cody let me plant daffodils and tulips because it was the first year we'd had a place of our own and I'd be danged if we had a flowerless spring . . . I swear he was worried for my sanity!

I honestly can't think of why anyone'd want a rock in their garden, except to sit on. I'm thinking hard . . . it must be something from places that don't have rocks. I'd kill to have moss or a waterfall in MY garden . . . y'know, something green or wet like that lol. It's all perspective.

Hubby has retired and I think he means for me to join him . . .

hugs
Bridge

Hey Bridge, I know where you are comming from. Growing up on a farm, genetic necessity, I must garden. I'm glad someone understands my need to be out in the dirt. Do it while you can and enjoy every moment. Each spring is frustrating to find more and more I can't do. Hubby has had to take over most of my hard work, that's the good stuff. A word of advice, take every other day off. Every morning there is this drive to get back out there and finish but in the long run you will be better off not to.
Cindy