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Here comes the sun! and sigh
Oct. 9th, 2020 06:05 pmPT says I went backwards last week - shoulder is both less mobile and less strong than it was last week. She says I really should ice twice a day for the next week, and be really careful about the exercises that I do so that I don't stress it further and trigger more inflammation. boo. No visit next week as the team schedule got over-run with new patients, but back to it the week after.
I know why - Tuesday we were wandering around the yard trying to figure out where a new root-pruned shrubbery was going to go, and I pointed out that the serviceberry had been swallowed by a grapevine (or three. or four). J just mm-hmm'd at me until he actually looked at it. Yeah, I really wasn't exaggerating. So we spent the next 45 minutes or so pulling grapevines off of and out of a 10-14 foot tall shrub (depending on where on the ridge you were standing). Lots of reach up, pull down motion, with things pulling back. And then I went and got the rake to rake all the viney bits up so I could haul them over to the burn pile.
Also on the burn pile is the branches of the old burning bush. Have no idea what happened to it. It was fine in the spring, but somewhere around July it just died. The wood is really light, as though it doesn't have any water in it, and the stump just sounds "wrong" when we kick it.
I cleared the dead bleeding heart stems out of the front flowerbed, and got the blackberry lilies cut back in one of the flowerbeds. I'll see how much gardenwork I can get done this weekend, before my shoulder starts complaining too much. There's lots to do, and it's supposed to be warm and not rainy all weekend.
We are now running on solar power! The electricians were out on Tuesday and Wednesday to hook everything up, and to swap out the old garbagy main service panel for a much better (safer!) one.
(also, I have marked my ballot, and sealed it up in the return envelope. I still have to deliver it to the township clerk. I'll do that next week. DB's went in today.)
I know why - Tuesday we were wandering around the yard trying to figure out where a new root-pruned shrubbery was going to go, and I pointed out that the serviceberry had been swallowed by a grapevine (or three. or four). J just mm-hmm'd at me until he actually looked at it. Yeah, I really wasn't exaggerating. So we spent the next 45 minutes or so pulling grapevines off of and out of a 10-14 foot tall shrub (depending on where on the ridge you were standing). Lots of reach up, pull down motion, with things pulling back. And then I went and got the rake to rake all the viney bits up so I could haul them over to the burn pile.
Also on the burn pile is the branches of the old burning bush. Have no idea what happened to it. It was fine in the spring, but somewhere around July it just died. The wood is really light, as though it doesn't have any water in it, and the stump just sounds "wrong" when we kick it.
I cleared the dead bleeding heart stems out of the front flowerbed, and got the blackberry lilies cut back in one of the flowerbeds. I'll see how much gardenwork I can get done this weekend, before my shoulder starts complaining too much. There's lots to do, and it's supposed to be warm and not rainy all weekend.
We are now running on solar power! The electricians were out on Tuesday and Wednesday to hook everything up, and to swap out the old garbagy main service panel for a much better (safer!) one.
(also, I have marked my ballot, and sealed it up in the return envelope. I still have to deliver it to the township clerk. I'll do that next week. DB's went in today.)
