Josephine
NURSE DIRECTOR EMERITA
United KingdomI have this day, for the very first time in about 3 maybe 4 years, done a really hard day's gardening! Let me detail it for you
1. planted up two hanging baskets and one little pod basket
2. planted out 12 begonias, 36 pansies, 12 dwarf lavender, 2 dozen antirrhinum and 24 sweet peas!
[I also planted out 4 dozen lobelia: there's a tale to this - for years I've like to have lobelia in my front garden. I have this dream of having swaths of pretty blue blossoms cascading over the wall of my built up flower bed and the hanging baskets. The last three years I struck out because though the label said "trailing" they didn't. This year I thought one more time so I bought two trays of 24 plants. Just now I brought the labels in to enter in my gardening diary only to find I've bought UPRIGHT lobelias!
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3. put in 30 Maris Piper potatoes into three growing bags
4. moved about a dozen foxgloves and aquilegia from where they had taken root to a more convenient place!
5. planted out two aubretia and two pansies that have survived the winter in plant pots left on the drive way. They look a bit ropey but you got to admire hardiness like that! I reckoned they deserved a chance to come through
6. did a little weeding and tidied out the purple sprouting broccoli which is almost due for harvesting (yum, yum!)
7. moved 4 bags of peat that have been in the wrong place all winter. One more to me moved but I can't get it off the floor so my chap will have to do that!
8. moved 8 bricks that got left outside the back door
9. watered everything that needed it
10. tried to clean a green rubber mat with knobbles on that was embedded with moss and muck. Then remembered I recently treated myself to a power washer so got it out and christened it! Having dealt with the mat, started on the concrete outside the back door and then really got carried away! Was washing this and washing that - going great guns and then I sprayed lower down wall to get rid of some moss ...............
............................................ then I went indoors and put all my clothes in the washing machine and had a wash!
In future I'll know not to power wash a wall when I'm standing in front of it! :hysterical:
But the greatest denouement is that, having been out in the garden from 11am until 4pm, I have had not a single complaint from either knee. Not a whimper! Isn't that great?
So to all of you who are wondering what the aftermath of a knee replacement will be, wondering if you will be disabled afterwards - the answer is NO! Accidents or mishaps excepting, you get back your life in full. No ifs, ands or buts! Why waste time when you can do that? I can't tell you - I feel so good I could cry!
1. planted up two hanging baskets and one little pod basket
2. planted out 12 begonias, 36 pansies, 12 dwarf lavender, 2 dozen antirrhinum and 24 sweet peas!
[I also planted out 4 dozen lobelia: there's a tale to this - for years I've like to have lobelia in my front garden. I have this dream of having swaths of pretty blue blossoms cascading over the wall of my built up flower bed and the hanging baskets. The last three years I struck out because though the label said "trailing" they didn't. This year I thought one more time so I bought two trays of 24 plants. Just now I brought the labels in to enter in my gardening diary only to find I've bought UPRIGHT lobelias!
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3. put in 30 Maris Piper potatoes into three growing bags
4. moved about a dozen foxgloves and aquilegia from where they had taken root to a more convenient place!
5. planted out two aubretia and two pansies that have survived the winter in plant pots left on the drive way. They look a bit ropey but you got to admire hardiness like that! I reckoned they deserved a chance to come through
6. did a little weeding and tidied out the purple sprouting broccoli which is almost due for harvesting (yum, yum!)
7. moved 4 bags of peat that have been in the wrong place all winter. One more to me moved but I can't get it off the floor so my chap will have to do that!
8. moved 8 bricks that got left outside the back door
9. watered everything that needed it
10. tried to clean a green rubber mat with knobbles on that was embedded with moss and muck. Then remembered I recently treated myself to a power washer so got it out and christened it! Having dealt with the mat, started on the concrete outside the back door and then really got carried away! Was washing this and washing that - going great guns and then I sprayed lower down wall to get rid of some moss ...............
............................................ then I went indoors and put all my clothes in the washing machine and had a wash!
In future I'll know not to power wash a wall when I'm standing in front of it! :hysterical:
But the greatest denouement is that, having been out in the garden from 11am until 4pm, I have had not a single complaint from either knee. Not a whimper! Isn't that great?
So to all of you who are wondering what the aftermath of a knee replacement will be, wondering if you will be disabled afterwards - the answer is NO! Accidents or mishaps excepting, you get back your life in full. No ifs, ands or buts! Why waste time when you can do that? I can't tell you - I feel so good I could cry!
