[Marcella]

“Oh, my aching back. Also, today I bought more black gold potting mix, and unloaded the ten bags of garden soil, and the black gold. That's what killed my back, plus bending over filling smart pots that will have cuccuzzas and more tromboncinos in them.”

I have spoken to God about his failure to give us snap in new back vertebrae. I don't know if that is in the works for newly formed babies.

We are stuck with the backs we have. I have five smaller bags of potting soil in the trunk of my car and have a fabric shopping bag on wheels to put those in to pull the rolling bag up four not tall steps into my house and through the house into the garden. That doesn't hurt my back but you were lifting much more weight than these smaller potting soil bags. I don't have to bend much to pour the soil in these smaller bags into pots.

It's the great big bag I have left that requires me to bend to get the soil out as I can't lift that bag to pour the soil out. That is a lower back killer for me. I will have many big pots to fill when they get here this coming week.
Once those big pots are filled, the worst of the bending will be over.

The way so many onions are growing, there is no way to eat them all now so I need to can most of those and have to find a recipe in my Ball book or the Water Bath canner book. I have to get bottled lemon juice and Ball regular pectin for the strawberries and I'll have everything needed to can the strawberries and don't know right now what will be needed to can onions. My mother and father, deceased, would be amazed I grew food plants and canned something. I stayed as far away from the garden and canning as I could. I did shell peas and beans and plenty of them. They could grow any veggie plus we had fig and peach and plum trees. I gathered those figs/peaches/plums. Figs were not easy to do since wasps stay around fig trees. I never was stung by them.

I can use my little finger now that a wasp stung a few days ago. I've got vinegar and Benadryl tablets out in the open in the kitchen should that happen again - ice in vinegar, stung appendage in the cold vinegar and take two Benadryl pills and a pain pill - then cuss it happened.

[sockmonkey]

Went to Lowe's, and got rebar, Neighbor took me to Tractor Supply to get a cattle panel. The last of my "heavy lifting" is done now with all three cattle panels ready for the T squash, and cucuzza to grow all over it.

That will provide three shady bowers (knock on wood) for cats to hang out in. They are not happy I got rid of all of the ligustrum. They had a great time hiding under the cut branches when I had three big piles out in the yard.

Spring must be here as I've already killed some snails, and seen a few grasshoppers. I sure miss my chickens as they loved chomping those grasshoppers.