Accessible housing is rare. There is a certain institutional arrogance in a lot of areas around here and support for accessibility in any venue can be limited. But the agency(s) with whom you will be working should have some resources to check out. Or you can contact a company like Apartment Finder. I have used them in the past and been happy with the service and selection. Their fee comes from the apartments, so it is free to you.
#14: Practical Matters for Physically Challenged Gardeners
Apartment Finder, hunh? Doesn't the Government have to provide a certain percentage of accessible or adaptable housing, out of new housing? I think JetBlue has a WeGetToChooseTheRealtorAndYouHaveThreeWeeksToChoose policy, and I highly doubt their realtor has ever dealt with this type of situation.
I know east Texas has (or had) apartment complexes especially for para- and quadriplegics with on-duty aids 24-7. (I know because I just typed up MK's resume and she once worked as an aid.) My friends Scott and Cathy live in an apartment complex geared toward the disabled and elderly. I've heard them mention "the housing authority" and H.U.D. I know their apartment isn't just low income. With an aging population, there should be more such places, not fewer.
The sign for the BeeZare Garden is the only sign I’ve finished, but I’m still making them as time allows. . I thought I would do Uncle Sam laying in a hammock for the Old Soldiers Garden and the classic skunk with a flower for the Outta Sight Garden. I could put a little twist on it by making the skunk look like a hippie from the 60's. Headband and lovebeads. I haven't come up with anything I really like for the w/c & Standing Gardens. Maybe, the morning glory in a w/c I posted here a long time ago for the wheelchair portion. I need to re-paint the entranceway into the w/c garden soon.
The plan for the Outta Sight Garden looks good. The traditional rose and iris combination will run along the north side. (Our mystery rose and a highly scented iris called ‘Immortality.’) There is a hotspot at the NW corner of the workhouse that is still giving us trouble. The sedum and prostrate rosemary combination are a success as groundcovers for the spot. The current plan, such as it is, has us adding a few Echinacea called ‘Fragrant Angel’ backed by an as-yet-unknown heat tolerant vine on a trellis against the building. MK hasn’t found the right vine yet) We decided to put the Owari orange in the Outta Sight Garden and not risk the potential problems of the fig-orange combination. We chased down the most heat-tolerant witch hazel to use in the shady portion. . They are marginal here, but MK couldn’t resist the idea of some sort of winter fragrance. I think a witch hazel and the new fragrant ‘Golden Crane’ hydrangea will make funny looking neighbors, but this is the Outta Sight garden. ;-) We will try a Japanese climbing hydrangea (Schizophragma hydrangeoides) where consistently damp soil has been a problem. So far, moss and blue mist flowers have been the only plants that do well there. We are slowly taking out all the mondo grass we’ve used as edging up to now. It is being moved to Travis’s garden or the Shade Power slope. We have standard, semi-dwarf and dwarf mondo grass. I don’t think we have any of the black yet.
MK and I are typing our little fingers off so we can buy all the new plants, but I am excited about the changes. Papa Jim has been pruning the glossy privet. One he took completely down to give the native holly more space. The second he limbed up and is allowing to assume its small tree size. A third he is letting grow to its natural height, but not its natural form. It is like an unsupported espalier against the west side of the workhouse. The idea is it will shade the house from the afternoon sun. We will lose the flowering by doing this, but the scent of glossy privet can get overwhelming that close to the deck. Most people grow it for its large, glossy leaves and prune off the flowers. Kay says they smell like “a heavily perfumed ferret.” I wish we could send you some rain, Debra. We’ve had some real torrents lately. Fenny is still terrified of storms. She keeps everyone in the house awake during storms. I think we need a dog psychiatrist. She was rescued from a drainage pipe just ahead of one of our flash flood rainstorms. I think it is just a puppyhood trauma she can’t get past. She probably associates rainstorms with being abandoned. She was a barely weaned puppy when she was dumped. She couldn’t have been on her own long before the rain hit and PJ spotted her in the ditch. Lol. Perhaps, I should become a dog psychiatrist myself. ~N~
Is Dallas in East Texas? I have NO clue! I know it's 3 hours from Austin.
You know, Nadine, one of the kids--she's my age so I'll call her a lady, now--she IS a dog psychiatrist. But she lives in Portland or Seattle or somewhere.
DH has just been diagnosed with degenerative disc disease--that's what Jim has, right? Tell me everything. His MDs are planning to give him an epidural to paralyze just those nerves. Have you heard of that?
The city motto for Dallas is “Where the East Ends.” If I had to describe its location, I’d say north central.
I had that procedure. It gave me relief for a couple of months. It isn’t considered a viable option for me since the relief lasted such a short time. An epidural is too expensive and risky a procedure to be done often. The doctors were surprised the effects didn’t last longer so evidently it does give longer lasting relief to most. I think stature is an issue, but that is my personal pet theory. I’ve observed the people it works best for tend to be small or of average size. I’m over 6’ tall and I think I see a pattern in which DDD hits taller people harder. It seems logical. The very tall have more bone and joint problems, in general. Patsy is in her early 60’s and got over two years of relief from the procedure, but she is part of what inspired my theory. She isn’t even quite 5’ tall. I would have the procedure again if my insurance would cover it. Even a few months of less pain would be something. If nothing else, the lessened pain means you get more recuperative, healing sleep.
Speaking of Patsy reminded me of an option you might consider, Carrie. She just sold her house and moved into a gated community where things are designed to be accessible for the elderly and the landscaping is taken care of by the developers. (Patsy chose a small house, but there were condo units also.) An aging population is making this sort of development popular ergo more profitable. Such developments are springing up like mushrooms here. I think you’re right. The problem will be fining a realtor who is up on things. You might try talking to someone in Rehabilitation Services for the Dallas area. They are usually up on what accessible housing is available. A letter or email might be best so they have some leisure to find the available info.
I think Fenny is just a worrier and she has a 6th sense when it comes to bad weather. The recent storms have caused two deaths, over a dozen serious injuries and authorities are still calculating the property damage. There were tornadoes in AR about the same time. I believe Vickie is up in the mountains enough tornadoes don’t present much threat. Wave at us anyway Vickie so we know for sure. (Jim)
We don’t mention Patsy often, but it is her you see in most published Amargia photos.
Yes, I've seen that picture! DH used to be 6' but is now 5'10" -- I assume from slumped discs and painful posture. Your theory makes total sense, Jim, but don't forget DH's pain comes from actually breaking his back. We'll see what happens. I am cautiously optimistic.
I hope it helps him. Jim's back was originally injured in an aircraft explosion, but I don't think it was as serious an injury as your husband's. The epidural Jim had was to numb the nerves and inject steroids into the problem site to promote healing. There might be more than one procedure like that. Some new procedures are available since Jim last considered surgical options.
Jim was planning to have the damaged part of the spine fused. But, during the preliminary work to identify the precise vertebrae that were causing the trouble (discography). The surgeon hit a horsetail nerve which caused Jim's pulse and blood pressure to skyrocket. He was just unlucky. Hitting a nerve is always a slight risk. But, needless to say, he wasn't a happy camper. It takes weeks for an injured nerve to heal and is very painful. He is just getting to the point where he is considering surgical options again...
The idea of fusing the vertebrae sounded terrible to me at first because it limits movement. A doctor, whom I trust, told me mens spines naturally fuse some as they age so it isn't such a bad thing. We have an appointment Feb. 2nd to talk about options again. Jim no longer smokes and has lost weight. He is no longer in a stressful job. His blood pressure is better. I think all that will help.
Jim took his cushion out to the front bank and cut down a large swatch of seacane. He then put a tarp over the cleared area and stapled it down. .I will cover it with mulch tomorrow. We are hoping by this method to finally get the seacane under control. Nadi and I worked raising funds. In other words we typed and proofread all day. I am more than ready for some time outside. k*
DH is painting trim that's by the floor boards which is pretty much agonizing for him! I told him he should get one of those work under the car things that rolls around and he pointed out that we're trying to SAVE money, not cost money, by doing it ourselves (himself).
Oh, in other news, I'm going to have surgery in the next 2-6 weeks to have a baclofen pump installed. I had one before 1995-97 which never worked. It's a pump the size of a can of tuna (they always say the size of a hockey puck but who knows how big a hockey puck is?) under the skin in your (my) abdomen attached to a tube that goes into your intrathecal space (around the spinal column). Baclofen is available orally but it makes me STUPID. And intrathecally it goes straight into the CNS to do its work without going through the stomach, brain, etc.
In the daytime I think it's crazy to try something AGAIN which didn't work before. At night, when the pain and spasticity are keeping me awake, I'm telling myself about all the advances they've made in the last 15+ years....this thing was breaking news when I first tried it, now apparently it's routine. I would be in the hospital for ~ 5 days rehabbing -- they didn't do that before, either.
fingers crossed for everyone
lol. I have only the vaguest idea what a hockey puck looks like.
The tomatoes we planted are doing well. Tara, Kay's eldest, went through a retro-60's phase. Black light posters and all that. The old black lights she had in her room were still in storage. We decided to experiment and see how the seedlings liked black lights. They seem to like it. It's been a 60's themed day. I was typing up something about the musician, Ronnie Lane, I didn't know he had MS. ~N~
There must have been more wind yesterday than I thought. It appears that not everything we heard hitting the roof was rain. I had to sweep pine straw and small debris off the roof today. I picked up 6 large garbage cans full of sweepings and probably have at least that many more to pick up tomorrow to finish the job. MK plans to have the two pine trees nearest the house taken down this year. I know I’m not going to miss them! It’s a nice view from up there, but I learned I’m a little afraid of heights. Once I’m up I’m okay. It’s the getting from the ladder to the roof and vice versa I find scary. If I hadn’t done it though, MK or PJ would have. As spooky as it was, it wasn’t as much a heart-in-my-throat experience as the time I came home to find MK on the roof cleaning the gutters. It may indeed be something a blind person of MK’s experience and physical skill level can do as safely as anyone else, but watching her makes me a complete nervous wreck. I did the job for my own sanity. ~N~
No tomatoes here until plant 'em out in April, ripen in July, maybe?
Consult with surgeon 3/12.
Good work, Nadine. :-)
ACK DH officially applied for the DFW job. Start date of 5/1--well, JetBlue in Dallas opens 5/1. He says we would probably move 4/1! Yeesh, or, as I always say, wow!
I have to talk to surgeon's office tomorrow because if I consult with him 3/12 and he maybe does the surgery earliest 4/1 that's when I'm supposed to be moving, not spending a week in rehab! Maybe I should just start all over again with a surgeon etc. in Dallas. Debra, who's your neurologist, or whom do you recommend? I would need the best PT for neuro rehab (not the same as the best PT for sports rehab or for ortho rehab).
OH, in other news, I have a reader in PA (I think) who's desperately trying to grow either coffee or tea or both. Can you humid climate types help?
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Don't think you would like my neuro--I don't, but then I don't really need regular care and he is in the same office as my internist. My going to that neuro makes the internist happy, so I am happy. LOL Besides, it is extremely unlikely that you will settle on my side of town if your husband is going to be working at DFW. Garland is a NE suburb of Dallas. The airport is on the other side of Dallas, toward the west midway between Dallas and Fort Worth. Getting from here to there during rush hour is a nightmare. It's a large area. When people started moving here, lots of land was available, so growth went out, not up like in the north and northeast. Because of population size, distances, lack of extensive public transportation, and continuous construction, traffic congestion and access are often time consuming and limited. Not to mention that the Metroplex, unfortunately, has some of the rudest drivers in the nation, which causes more accidents and road rage incidents than in many other areas. (Dallas ranks well up in the top 10). So I would say that where you and your husband decide to live should probably dictate which provider you choose.
The medical centers at, and associated with, UT Southwestern are some of the best in the world, with five Nobel prize winners in the last 25 years. You will not find better or more comprehensive care anywhere, for any condition, and that is where I would start. If their location is inconvenient, they will certainly have referrals to other areas of DFW. Here is the link to their Multiple Sclerosis specialists.
http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/patientcare/medicalservices/neuro/ms.html
So which part of town should I be looking in? My in-laws are very near Lake Worth. (Or Fort Lake, but I think it's Lake Worth.) But that's mostly irrelevant to where we live. DH changes the odds of getting the job every day--it used to be 20%, now it's 40%!
Lake Worth is west of Ft. Worth proper and I would probably stay west of the airport, then. I believe Tarrant County property taxes are generally lower than Dallas County, anyway, if you decide to buy a townhouse or condominium. You might look at:
Colleyville--northwest of the airport; a lot of well-heeled residents, but not obnoxious to newcomers like Southlake is reputed to be.
Grapevine-due north; has Delaney Vineyards, an annual wine festival, Great Wolf Lodge (a tourist-attraction resort with an indoor waterpark) and Grapevine Lake, which has an attractive shoreline when we've had rain. It is a sailing lake, where others like Lewisville Lake are more powerboat. Spent 20 years living close to both, and I think Grapevine Lake is prettier.
North Richland Hills--due west; has a grounded sense of community, including a community garden and public space artworks.
I like Arlington, but that's only because the baseball stadium is there. (So is the football stadium and Six Flags, but those two facilities are irrelevant to me. :D It is almost impossible to tell the differences between the bulk of the Mid-Cities and suburbs just driving, but living in each municipality has a different sensibility and different agenda. Depends on what kind of "feel" is important to you. I would stay away from Flower Mound, Coppell, and Lewisville. Too rapid growth for the infrastructure to support and, for me, the road construction and traffic would simply be too horrendous to deal with on a daily basis. I'd also ask your in-laws what they think.
Well, they've only lived there a few months and ... DH is afraid to mention the whole debacle to his son(s). He thinks they all moved away from Boston to get away from him (in truth it was probably to get away from their mother, or from the tension surrounding the breakup). He thinks the one son who lives in ATL is going to be jealous of the son who lives in Dallas. Yadda yadda yadda. I want to tell the D/FW folks so we can have a TX address to send Medicaid application to so at least we can look it over and see what's on there. (They won't send it to me here.)
I've heard a lot about property taxes but we would be renting (and rent our house here, or let our grown kids live in it). We've done a lot of accessibilizing and gardening that a new owner would just rip out and W/C houses in Boston are few and far between. We're hoping that won't be the case with D/FW. The closer we are to the airport, the fewer hours DH has to spend commuting! Aren't there ADA housing laws?
Yes, Carrie, was wondering about the timing too. I would definitely talk to the doctors in advance. They might have some referrals. There are surely conventions and literature passing between doctors who focus on MS. A nationwide medical community surely exist. It does for most such conditions.
It took me a while to wrap my mind around the the sheer physical sprawl of Texas cities. They have lots of available real estate and aren't shy about using it. The cities in PA all seem compact and highly organized in comparison. When talking to Kay about a "nearby" destination, I've learned to ask if she means "Texas nearby'' or what the rest of the world considers "nearby." lol.
Coffee is a fun houseplant. The flowers are fragrant and you can actually get a usable amount of beans from one. Enough to brew your own homegrown pot of coffee anyway. I think I heard an article about them in a recent horticulture magazine. (Kay listens to her magazines open air sometimes and HortMag is available as a download.) You can even find Kona coffee plants. (Jim)
Can I refer this slightly frantic reader to you, Jim? Dying to grow own coffee, if not coffee then tea, can't get anything to germinate, heck, I don't do growing, I just do research. Unless she wants to move to Sri Lanka or Kenya, I don't know what to tell her (or maybe him, but hes don't usually get this frantic).
Yes, I was surprised to hear (see/read) Debra talking about traffic jams and bad drivers; I thought we had a patent on those in Boston. The main trick is to be close to the airport. One guy Ray works with is maybe 1/2 hour further than we are and we are 30-45 min. His boss is I forget where but practically in NH or RI or something like that. DH is the closest, hence he's the one who gets to go in if there's an emergency. In D/FW, he would be IT. He would be the top dog but there wouldn't be very many other dogs so the closer the better.
Do you know if the actual location where he will be working is at the airport itself, or will it be somewhere else? I mentioned those three cities on the assumption that the office will be at or very near the airport. They are reasonably close and, in general, traffic from west to east is a little less strenuous than from east to west. He does NOT want to have to drive LBJ/635 during rush hour. :/
It would be AT the airport itself, most absolutely!
Thanks, Debra!
I think Papa Jim was spoiled. Philadelphia has to be the most organized city I've ever seen. Driving in the Waterbury/Meriden (CT) area felt like driving in a demolition derby, but I tune into the "Drive At Five" radio programs even driving in Dothan during rush hour.
Sure, Carrie, you can point your frantic reader this way. You've got a lot on your plate right now. Camellia sinensis seeds are wicked to germinate. I think you have to dance at midnight when the moon is new and sacrifice a white goat with no blemishes or something. ;-). MK would know the particulars.
MK and I started re-working the Amargia blog articles for real today. If any of you have time, check out the first one and give me your opinion. I plan to put it on the Amargia blog tomorrow. Brutal honesty is encouraged. We are using the kudzu1 account for Amargia stuff.
http://davesgarden.com/community/blogs/t/kudzu1/16331/
MK contributed so much I have to mark it as a Faye Amarante creation, the pseudonym of MK and I working together. I think that is the way to go for us. Neither of us are all that good on our own, but I think we do okay working as a unit. I couldn't see a way to put more than one picture on a blog entry, but you can see the idea. ~N~
Fixed link error ~N~
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Nadine, you should finish your lettuce article! It ONLY has to be 500 words and 3 pictures. You can do it--you should see the competition (not).
That link doesn't work.
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Here it is on the open blog. http://amargiaexperiment.blogspot.com/2012/01/seductive-salads.html
I think they decided what was one article should be two. I liked it. There was enough fun that I had no trouble swallowing the data. I vaguely recall one of the DG writers (Can't recall which one.) writing an article about carrots and how orange ones came to be standard. "Faye" mentions that carrots come in different colors. I think we should put a link to an article like that on this lettuce post. Finding and making good links and other techie stuff is going to be my contribution for a while. Don't think I can get my Tramadol rambolins' into anything coherent anymore. You must have a much more disciplined mind that I do, Carrie.
Created a desk so the ladies can work side by side today using three wooden stools and wood I had around. Haven't done the finish work on it yet and they are already using it. so I guess I did okay. (Jim)
"If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative" (Source unknown)
I love Jim's desk creation. He did it in such a way we can reclaim the stools for their original purpose when we have time to build a desk like we want. Yet, the desk is solid. Jim is extremely clever when it comes to things of this nature. The stools are remnants of Jim's denial period before he accepted that a w/c was in his future. All our furniture was stork-y looking for awhile because it is easier and less painful to get up from a high seat when you have a back problem. . I understood his somewhat misguided effort, however. I've reached an age when I despise those otherwise comfortable, low-slung couches my children favor.
Warm and rainy. Nighttime lows only in the 50's. Putting all my houseplants outside to enjoy the weather. This winter has felt little different from living in central FL. I'm enjoying it now, but, without some cold to knock down insect populations, it will be a buggy summer.
Do you have your DL pictures stored away, Debra? I would like to do a funny DL blog post when it gets a little warmer. Maybe, we could borrow some? Credits to the photographer, of course.
You will keep writing garden articles if you move into an apartment, won't you, Carrie? I've come across several good landless garden writers.
Amargia continues her slow move from community garden to a for profit operation. Although, we will keep the w.c garden open for anyone interested in doing some serious gardening. They just have to be people who aren't bothered by the bees and willing to sign off on that fact. There are so many good public gardens locally with excellent locations encouraging them to be more accessible and funding that effort seems like a better use of our energy. .
Tea tree seeds have to be scarified and soaked for 24-hours. Your seed source has to be a good one because if Camellia sinensis seeds are ever allowed to completely dry out they aren't very viable. Since it is about 4 years from seed to first harvest, you are much better off buying nursery plants. Dancing by the dark of the moon does sound like more fun than sanding seeds.
I have them safe, Kay. You are welcome to all you would like, just let me know when ready. :-)
It was I who said that carrots, which originally were a variety of colors, were bred to be orange to honor the House of Orange in Holland. It was the Queen Anne's Lace article.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/1459/
Blue Anemones
Wow!
So whoever "Faye" is should submit the lettuce article to DG!
Nadi is the ultimate proofreader so she has final responsibility for what Faye says. I think that makes her Faye’s official voice. I’m a stuffy writer in every sense of the word. I have a bad habit of trying to cram too much info in at once and my style of writing is outdated. I’m basically an information geek. I forget sometimes that others don’t find unusual tidbits of data as fascinating as I do. I’m just the river bed, Nadi is the river. For now, I control and direct the creative flow. Eventually, Nadi will do that for herself.
Nadi and her friends are having way too much fun with Faye. Remember the Steven King/Richard Bachman craziness? When they are through with her, Faye will probably have been one of Sasquatch’s ex-wives. ROFL.
No ground hog needed. Spring does appear to be here. The large peach tree I moved is in bloom. The re-location to the w/c garden doesn’t seem to have fazed it. There are leaf buds on the figs and pomegranates. The Belles of Ireland are in full bloom. I found hyacinth in bloom that quite honestly I forgot we had planted. Also, I have what appears to be Utah Strain onions coming up everywhere in what are supposed to be flower beds this year. No t sure how that happened either. I would have sworn I planted those in 2010 and concluded the seed package hadn’t been viable. I think Mother Nature just likes sticking her tongue out at gardeners sometimes. “Na-Na-Na-Na-Na!”
I’m wondering if this jumpstart on spring is a fluke or the new norm. I haven't been good about keeping bloom time records in past years, but I would swear these plants did not bloom so early in previous years. Amargia has a cooler microclimate. We usually run about two weeks behind our neighbors in bloom time. I will be interested to see what is going on at the botanical garden.
Love anemones. Ours haven’t come up yet. Hope something didn’t get them. Did you ever notice how certain colors seem to dominate certain seasons? A gardener has to do a lot of planning and work to alter that. This is the bright yellow, clear blue, white and pink season. I don’t fight that. I like nature’s changing color schemes.
In my search for the best books on container gardening, I’ve been reading The Ultimate Container Gardener by Stephanie Donaldson. I was a little confused by it until I realized I was reading a British author. They obviously used different common plant names on the other side of the pond. No problems there as long as botanical names are used. I know common names vary widely even within this country. (MK and PJ have an ongoing argument about which plant is the “real” spider lily.) Then, I began to wonder about something. Are the same botanical names used worldwide? Is that what the Synonym part of PlantFiles is about? I’ve always assumed the names in “Synonyms” were the plant’s older names. With new genetic knowledge, I know plants are being reclassified and renamed at a rate even professional nursery staffs have a hard time keeping up with. Time to dig up the real facts. Maybe, a visit to the “Ask a Gardener” forum is in order. :-)
Carrie, I’ll submit the next “Faye” creation for DG’s consideration before doing anything else with it, if the offer is still open. This one is already on DG in blog form anyway. We pulled all the articles off Different Shades of Green to be re-worked by Faye. She was created for the fantasy/science fiction market, but I guess a writer needs to diversify. (BTW, there is no truth to the rumors abut Faye and Squatch. Faye has very discriminating taste. ROFL.). Google’s new blogspot is easier for MK to work with so we are moving from Google to Google. lol. We will put something like, “For the story on how carrots came to be orange, see…” (Link to your article) Kay likes to use address hyperlinks because it makes things easier for blind computer users. Screen reading programs don’t tell you a word is hyperlinked. There is a method to our madness…most of the time anyway. :-) ~N~
Is that true, screen-reading programs don't read hyperlinks? I just hate footnotes and well, I like the way Wikipedia does it where you can click on a footnote in the body of the article and that reference will be highlighted. And I get confused, I seriously do not have the attention span to remember why I was interested in reference (2) above--my eyes won't remember all the way down to the bottom where it says 2. www.whatever.com. But I could say according to Fred Smith, director of www.whatever.com, and make www.whatever.com be the hyperlink instead of whatever's plants, inc., which is the way I do it now! Geez, why didn't you tell me?
Lovely photo, Nadine.
Debra, the bell shaped flowers are one of those I’ve yet to ID. They were given to Amargia as Bells of Ireland, but they don’t match any of the BoI pictures I’ve seen. They look more like lily-of-the-valley with green markings and they are perennial like LotV. What little scent they have isn’t particularly pleasant, however. Definitely not a lily-of-the-valley fragrance. Whatever they are, they are pretty, reliable, early-season bloomers.
Thanks, Carrie. Putting the links in the body of the article does make more sense. The info should be available right when a reader’s curiosity is peaked. I hate footnotes myself. A lot of those who read Amargia’s blog are going to be on pain medication. That usually means some difficulty focusing.
I just called Vickie. She says she’s doing wonderfully. Just caught up in the chaos of the remodeling. It might be to the point her SIL can re-hook her computer tomorrow. She says she’s going through serious computer withdrawal symptoms. Also, asked me to “Hi” to all. Anyone seen Kb around?
We took the old vinyl flooring out of the kitchen this morning. My w/c and back objected to the bump caused by the flooring change between kitchen and office. We were able to remove it as a single piece. I plan to lay it over an area of newly cut to the ground seacane. Let’s see the wild cane punch through that!!! It punches right through landscape fabric so I’m trying old tarps and the vinyl this growing season. It won’t look that good, but it won’t look terrible either once I get it covered with mulch. We are growing bushel gourds on the sunny bank where the seacane has been a problem. Gourd vines will quickly cover the mulched surface of the tarps and vinyl so it won’t look like Kay’s been burying the bodies there. lol. (Jim)
Jim, think those are Galanthus (Snowdrops)
Maybe I should say "Fred, of Fred's Arts and Crafts (www.fredsartsandcrafts.com), suggests..." and then I can use my (harrumph) natural, friendly style, not break up the text with footnotes, but the blind readers will still "see" the option of going to the web address. Those (not just mine) articles are chock full of links. Usually if we mention a plant, the name links back to the PlantFiles entry about it, and mine, at least, will often link to other DG articles without saying "read Sally G. Miller's informative article here." I guess I'm wondering about the links inside DG--how does the screen-reading program do with the inside-DG links?