Garden Hazards!

Seems recently I have only been blogging about my garden which

is really one of my favorite topics!

This year appears to be my year of garden injuries

and three trips to the doctors office.

Early this spring when the weather was unusually warm I took

advantage and did lots of clean up.  

Well one morning I saw something growing on my upper thigh

I tried to pull it off put it was very attached so I just watched it for about 4 days.

Finally my leg seemed to be infected and very warm...

so again I tried to pull it off...and it came off!!

I pushed on it with my finger nail and blood came squirting out

OMG it was a tick!

Now how could I get to be 67 years old and not know what a tick was but I had never seen one.

Yes my doctor saw me right away and we are waiting to see if I get any symptoms of Lyme Disease.

I don't live in a high Lyme Disease area but this year is so unusual and 

there are lots more ticks being seen.

So time goes on and I just keep working in the garden.  The Friday

before Memorial Day about 6:00 in the evening decided do some mulching.

Unfortunately I did not put on my garden shoes but started spreading 

mulch in my flip flops.  I came down on a rusty metal post sticking out of the ground. 

I didn't even realize it was there..... here I go again off the docs office.

Thanks goodness no stitches just bandages, tetanus shot, shot of antibiotics, 

and they prescribed antibiotics for 10 days.

No working in the garden until it's healed!

So now it's the end of June and only been playing in the garden for

about a week...took awhile for my foot to heal.

We had a couple beautiful days cooler with nice breeze and I enjoyed

working ... planting, digging, weeding, mulching whatever needed done..

it felt so good getting everything finished.

Well seems I over did it because a few days latter there was awful pain running

down my right leg..OMG it really hurt!

Yes here we go again to the doctors

Sciatica was the diagnosis taking pain killers, muscle relaxer, using ice...

not sleeping all night, hurts when I lay, sit or if I stand too long!

It's been a little over 3 weeks and the pain is a lot better.

Been to the chiropractor  2 times and that helps.

My husband has been watering the garden but not like me...

and there are weeds everywhere...

oh well I can't bend over very well so they will have to wait.

Thanks for listening to me I really needed to share.

Linking to
Fertilizer Friday

Warm hugs,

Fertilizer Friday Flaunt Your Flowers

Yes I know it's the middle of winter but I was just over at Tootsie Time and she is having Fertilizer Friday and I love flowers so much I'm showing some photos of flowers from last years garden.

Really makes me excited for spring and working in the garden.

Warm Hugs,

Fresh From Our Garden!

It's pretty exciting to have everything in our garden to make a salad! This is our first vegetable garden thanks to my husband. Thanks Sweetie!!

Lettuce, cucumbers, hot peppers,

cherry tomatoes

I'm sending a great big thanks to Tootsie for hosting Fertilizer Friday so I have a place to show off my gardens! Visit Tootsie's blog to see all the beautiful gardens.

Warm wishes,

Fertilizer Friday

Thanks Tootsie for hosting Fertilizer Friday's it's one of my favorite days. These lilies are blooming right now in my garden they are just beautiful! One of these are taller then me and I'm 5'4".

Yesterday I stopped at Home Depot and they still have so many flowers it looks like the beginning of spring. I've noticed that lots of places still have many flowers this late in the season. Is that happening where you live?

Thanks for visiting today!

Warm wishes,

Fertilizer Friday

Tooties at Tooties Time is hosting Fertilizer Friday she has the most amazing garden so visit her blog and take a peek! This year my husband wanted to plant some tomatoes and a few other things but we had never planted this area it was all grass. Thankfully a dear neighbor took up all the sod, turned over the dirt and then used his rotatiller and gave us this wonderful garden area.

This is the last blooms of this clematis and the following pink and white one.

It really amazes me how much time it takes to keep the flower beds presentable with such a small garden. Here I trimmed back my forsythia bush it grows like a bad weed

This is the side yard see how close the house is next door on the left. That's our garage in the back with the ivy gowing on it. We're lucky to have a lot and a half or I would have not flowers.

Thanks everyone for stopping by today I always love your comments.

Warm wishes,

My FIRST Fertilizer Friday 6/5

Decided to join the fun over at Tootsie's blog Flaunt Your Flowers! This is a picture of the large hanging basket by my front door and yes Tootsie I did my fertilizing this week. You know I've never really fertilized my gardens before so I expect great results and I'll be showing off all summer on Fertilizer Friday!

Thanks so much for visiting today and I love your comments.

Warm wishes,