I’ve been having a really bad week anyway. I’ve just been not saying it on the boards. The highlight for bad was my motherboard fried about 4 days ago. I’m back to using my old undependable one which already had a memory issue yesterday.
Today my feet slid out from under me at the top of the basement stairs. Since I was holding the railing I didn’t slide straight down feet first. No I twisted at the top of the stairs and my foot went through the paneling at base pushing out a few nails and studs. My foot stopped at just beyond the ankle before I went further down the stair and it started to pull back out of the splintered paneling. I grabbed the railing with my other hand as well as the first and stopped with my head half way down the stairs and the legs above. My right arm has some gouge chunks and a rug burn on it. My left arm has some long strips of rug burn and the elbow has stopped hurting. One toe is sort of numb, and I have some slight pains in the ankle. The ankle is not a major, but more than I want to do much walking with. My back muscles are soar too. It’s pretty much a general ache everywhere but my right leg. I hate being so neurologically challenged that I’m always hurting myself.
I still have a soar ankle that limits how I walk and it feels like it will be a while until I can just walk without being careful how I step.:rolleyes: The toe isn’t slightly numb anymore. I can walk up and down a stair without a pain going from the foot to the knee now. The abrasions will take a few weeks to heal up. My back muscles don’t hurt any longer.
I still haven’t worried abut fixing the wall. I suppose I should take down the cd case that is on the other side of the wall and ready to fall.
My mind is switching to gardening. Yesterday I sorted through old seeds and dumped many. I need to prepare some of the seed I saved, but not much. Planning the garden and looking for seeds doesn’t require me to be walking around. This will be a year of some experimentation in how to grow some things. I always have way too little space.
Yes, but I always drastically cut the number I show, as I can overwhelm anybody with garden pictures. I’m very close to removing hundreds of iris in the 20 foot long bed. They have to be redone from all the crowding and it’s time for change. They may be reduced to a clump of each color, and the area along the walk can have some other stuff again. I also have to mark the different daffodils this spring and reduce the number of the prolific cream and yellow ones by hundreds when they die back. I had over 500 last time I replanted and that was years ago. They have multiplied and are getting to crowded to bloom. I think about one third bloomed last spring. The permanent raised beds in the back were finished in place last late spring. but the center has to be leveled and planted to grass this year. I have lots of work ahead I don’t know if I can get done.
I threw 63 pictures from 2009 together and will post them at some point. I will start a new thread for that so other people that want to take gardening can.
