I'm here!! I've been muddy handed lately, busy outside in the yard a lot since the weather here has been so dry, sort of. Today the wind has been blowing the rain sideways though, so I've been setting here at the computer most of the day. As weather permits I have to prune the fruit trees, prune and train the raspberries, build a grape arbor for the new grapes I planted last year, prep the garden for this spring, etc.
I got a flower bed started between the southern neighbors pasture fence and the driveway. There's a bunch of bushes and flowering trees along that fence row that Mom planted there years ago, so I decided to expand it and make a place for daffodils, hyacinths, etc around the bases and in between the trees. I need to get it finished so the bulbs can be planted as we have some daffodils up close to six inches. Summer before last we had to move Mom's rosebushes so that the power pole could be replaced. Over the years trees had grown up so much that the roses didn't have enough sun any more. To finish that we dug up hundreds, if not thousands of bulbs. What kind they are I have no idea, maybe hyacinths and ? Mom has fifty years of flowers, roses, rhodies, azaleas, etc planted here. There's a camelia bush (tree actually, 15+ ft tall) that my wife just noticed is starting to bloom.
How's your foot doing now? I bet you're feeling a bit house bound right now. I sure got that feeling once I started to feel better after my accident. I hate going shopping with my wife, but for a while there I actually enjoyed it since it meant I was able to get out of the house. I wasn't in any condition to drive so I had to have a chauffeur.
Four years ago I came close to needing to have done what you did, only it would have been just one toe. When I was in the hospital I had one toe that turned about as dark a shade of purple as you can find. It was taking so long for it to return to normal that my Dr sent me to a specialist. Turns out that there is no cartilage left in the last joint next to the nail. I think it's from spending so much time working down on my knees on the floor while installing cabinets.
Well, got to go think about something for supper. One of my favorite lines is "when it's smokin' it's cookin' , when it's black it's done".
Don
