My gardening has consisted of watering the indoor plants and rearranging the kitchen. Have the grow light set up and several rectangular pots to use for herbs and spinach. I plan to do a little decorating outdoors this weekend, if it doesn't rain.
Here we are with just one more Friday to go in 2014. Hope you are all doing well and managing to stay warm. The flu has been raging and one of the local schools called off classes due to so many having the flu.
So far I have been dodging it. Have also been adding some rose hips to my herbal tea and lots of fresh orange juice for the added vitamin C.
Have a great weekend, and Merry Christmas. God Bless.
I’m here. My garden here in Georgia is being prepared with compost for the upcoming spring.
I can’t wait for the new year and the seed catalogs coming in and then I can prepare my garden for the summer bounty.
GARDEN QUESTION: Posted on ‎12‎/‎15‎/‎2014‎ ‎9‎:‎45‎:‎44‎ ‎AM by US Navy Vet
I have about 1.5 acres of land in my back yard and I need advice on what/when to plant on it so all the dirt does now wash down to the bottom. Whatever I plant/seed needs to come in thick and fast. My daughter had 2 horses back there and now the land is pretty bare. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3237364/posts
UPDATE FROM KATHY ON ARROWHEAD: ‎12‎/‎17‎/‎2014‎ ‎7‎:‎41‎:‎03‎ ‎PM · 353 of 393 Kathy in Alaska to Arrowhead1952; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; Windflier; txhurl; Iron Munro; Old Sarge; 2ndDivisionVet; ... UPDATE FROM ARROWHEAD'S DAUGHTER, LISA... I wanted to send you an email update for the last couple of weeks. To be honest we are seeing very small progressions and sometimes there are weeks where there is not much to report. But I do have a few things I wanted to pass on to you and to the FReeper community!
Things are moving very slowly, and sometimes seem to be moving backwards, but hopefully we're taking 2 steps forward for every 1 step back. :) Dad's big achievement this week was that he was able to walk about 70 feet (with heavy assistance) during one of his physical therapy sessions. This was on a day that my mom was there, and this pleased the therapist and Mom very much. Also, the therapists have noted that Dad's posture is getting much better, he is able to sit up very straight in his wheelchair as opposed to slumping over or leaning to the side as before.
Dad's therapists (physical/occupational/speech) met with Mom this week to give her an update, saying that he is moving very slowly but still making small progressions. The neurologist on staff met with her as well and said this process is going to be very slow-and-go and that we are in for a long haul, but that the things he is seeing are relatively normal for this type of brain injury.
Dad's voice has gone from being quite strong a couple of weeks ago to very weak, and it is increasingly difficult to hear him or understand what he is saying or trying to say. He also has an incredibly hard time focusing on a task or on a command/question, as his attention span is noticeably shorter. The therapists are having a hard time getting him to respond to commands these last few weeks or answer any questions, but we hope that with time that will come.
We still do not have a long-term prognosis, as it is impossible at this time to say what the true nature of the injury is coupled with the fact that every traumatic brain injury patient is different. The speech therapist did another "swallow test" recently, as the first one did not go as well as she had hoped. While he does have a strong swallow, and can repeat it, his epiglottis - the flap that covers the trachea and doesn't allow solids/liquids to go into the lungs - is not closing at all. Because of this, he is still on a feeding tube and will be for the forseeable future, as anything put into his mouth runs the risk of being coughed into his airway. If the epiglottis does start closing regularly, they will test again and reevaluate.
Please pass on our thanks again to everyone who has taken the time to pray and send messages and cards and pictures - we are so appreciative of those and Dad does enjoy looking at them. My aunt told me this week that she handed him one that was upside down, and he made sure he turned it right-side-up before he looked at it, so there's that! Thank you all again so much for the continued love and support. It has been almost 2 months and we still need all the prayers we can get. With Love and Hope, The Schwausch Family - John, Linda, Lisa and Merfie Blue (the doggie, of course :))
If you'd like his address, just FReepmail me. And thank you to everyone for sending the family letters and prayers. Maybe you can find a postcard with your state on it...they could see how many states he could collect. Contact Kathy if you want the address.
It’s 33 degrees here in Massachusetts. My herbs are doing fine, and out little tomato plant was as well, until my youngest pup decided to eat all of its flowers.
I think that after Christmas we’ll be sowing some lettuce seeds in our wheeled indoor/outdoor container.
How can you make poinsettias last after Christmas?
Do you have to keep switching the pot from bright day rooms to darkened areas at night? Around the nurseries sell red, pink, white and even green ones. Seems to me, the red ones remain the most popular.
I’ve gotten a bit behind some. Have to gather up some mulch for covering the plot to over-winter. Need to rake up the leaves and run the mower over the pile to break down smaller for the mulch. Still have some mustard greens growing in a small area.
i’ve test sprouted the seeds i fermented and dried from the big tomatoes in my garden last summer. all the tomatoes have sprouted. the pepper seeds are just above the coir. I have prepped my basement to start the pepper plant seeds under my 1000 watt lights. I trim them to make bushes out of them. worked incredible for the tomatoes last summer. picked 5lbs of tomatoes on november 1 here in philly. i have my mortgage lifter, better boy hybrid sprout, and big red. i dug out two pepper plant to grow over the winter in the basement but thrips have taken all the leaves. hopefully the plant will survive and not infect my seedlings.
Plum trees blooming in coastal Oregon. It’s nuts.
Just put a “classical” statue in my little garden at the bottom of the stairs leading up to my humble little apartment.
Windows are open due to the lovely weather.
I barely made it back into the apartment, when I heard a child walking by squeal with delight.
“LOOK, MOMMIE! BOOBIES!!!!”
Those ancient Greeks!
Temp is 5 to 6 degrees above normal here on the leftist coast Calefawnia and abundance rain to keep me in front of the iPuter...
Prayers needed over here…http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3239001/posts
Does that indoor spinach produce much?
Not much going on in my garden these days, but I did manage to get some cleanup done weekend before last. Burned off the dead stuff. I still need to pull down the cattle panels and clean those up, but there’s no rush this time of year.
The construction crew is supposed to show up this week to finish the old smokehouse soon-to-be potting shed. Pops came up with a nice double-wide window that’s going to be perfect to install on the south side of the shed.
I ran over one of the sewer line cleanout pipes with Nanner while cleaning up horse poo in the feedlot on Saturday and busted the riser into a bunch of little bitty pieces. I’d been meaning to dig that one up, cut it off below grade, cap it off and rock it in ever since we built the place. It wasn’t on my short list of things to do for this weekend, but now it’s done and there’s one less hazard out there for the horses to get tangled in.