My heart goes out to my long time friend Kay who lost her son yesterday to a heart attack. Kay is SUCH a special lady and has had a lot of awful challenges in the past few months. We will do everything we can to help her through this.
Our ‘Lewises-against-the-elements’ challenge continues. Yesterday it was the fire ants swarming when I was trying to clean out the raised bed square foot garden. Today it was the wasps, who have made a home in the attachment to the pole that holds up the mailbox. We drilled several holes in it so that we can attach our mailbox decorations to the mailbox with two bolts and nuts. It never occurred to us that wasps would decide that this was a great place to live. We sprayed the holes down again, taking several sessions to get the other mailbox decoration DOWNand the scarecrow UP. We didn’t get stung, but it certainly adds challenge to the job of changing out decorations!
As we were processing the chicken, frozen fish, and hamburger meat we bought this morning, my husband was taking the packages out to the freezer in the garage for me. He remarked when he came in from the first pass, “Hey! You really DID clean out the freezer!” He added that he didn’t think he would be able to tell much difference, and that he was amazed. He said, “You did a GREAT job!” (I’m marking this day down on my calendar that 1) he noticed, and 2) he gave me a nice compliment!
Today when I go out again to continue trying to clear out the garden. I will hose everything down first with the EIGHT bug killer before I try to do anything else. I would really like to finish this. If I’m successful, my friend Robin wrote, suggesting that I spread Vaseline around the ‘legs’ of the support pieces that hold up the boxes. She says that her experience shows that the ants don’t want to cross the Vaseline or get stuck in it. SOUNDS GREAT TO ME! Thanks, Robin.
I am happy to report that my yoga practice went well yesterday afternoon. My back had protested LOUDLY yesterday morning, telling me that maybe I had practiced a bit too exuberantly for my old body. The use of Muscle Gel with Arnica, Tylenol, and CAREFUL stretches yesterday fixed me up. I was sore again this morning, but I think it’s just a leftover. My husband spread the gel on for me, but I didn’t need the Tylenol and will practice this afternoon. 7 STARS for the week! WOO HOOO!
I hope your Sunday is a good one.
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I’m sorry for your friend’s challenges and huge loss, Linda.
Good for you to avoid the stung of wasps, as they are worse than the fire ants, at least for me.
I haven’t heard about the advice with Vaseline, but I will safe this for the time, when I get a garden again.
Good that you stay in your yoga, wow for 7 stars 😀
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I appreciate your encouragement, Irene. I really am going to try to get into the habit of doing a session of yoga every day. So far, the stars are helping…. I had never been stung by a wasp or bee before a couple of years ago. I made up for lost time, and I’m allergic to wasp stings, too, although not seriously enough to require the ER or anything. I just swell really badly and have pain for several days before things start getting back to normal. I’m thinking that when winter is here, maybe we can spray some kind of foam filler into the pole that will keep the wasps out. We’ll research the problem. I will try Robin’s suggestion once I get the garden under control.
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That’s so sad about your friend. I’m glad she has friends like you to help.
You are doing amazing keeping up with the yoga. I haven’t started back with yoga yet, but am doing some good stretches a couple of times a day.
Sure hope that vaseline trick works on the fire ants…..
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I just wish we could do more to help her. This kind of thing makes you feel so helpless. At least she knows we love her and care. Thanks for the encouragement about my yoga efforts. Just finished session # 7 for the week. I really want to make this work. Kudos to YOU for doing the stretches. That’s really good. I hope they make you feel better. I have one more session (I think) to go in the garden before it’s finished. As soon as we’re sure the ants are all dead and/or gone, we’ll do your suggestion about the Vaseline. Thanks so much again. It’s good to have hope! :0)
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