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After you put the shovel away....
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Posted by
lucille Houston (
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Sun, Mar 4, 12 at 14:33
I've started digging the holes where the incoming roses are going to be planted. It has been a while since I did this, and the rose digging muscles are staging a protest.
I think for this evening, a hot bath, and a Tylenol or two will be called for.
What do you do after a long gardening day? |
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| Sleep, and I usually have to have a nap the next day, too. I have arthritis in my spine, so heavy gardening for several hours a day knocks me for a loop. |
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| moan, whine, preen, boast and bore the rest of my family by recounting every detail of my heroic efforts. |
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- Posted by seil z6b MI (My Page) on
Sun, Mar 4, 12 at 16:50
| Lol, me too, Camp! My family is very sick of hearing about it all but that doesn't stop me. I some times soak in a hot tub. I have one of those spa mats that makes air bubbles and that feels good! And I find it's better to go out and do at least a little gardening the next day to keep the muscles loose. Otherwise I'm even sorer the second day. |
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Camp you are funny!!!
I am having a small glass of Bailey's Irish Cream to help my overextended muscles. I'm not sure that is scientific, but it is dairy so nourishes, right? |
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| oh absolutely, Lucille, it practically counts as food. Have a big one. |
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| It seems to energize me..So, I will work until I am exhausted to the core, many days, I will go w/o food , stopping only for a glass of tea or to use the bathroom... Then, I spend the next day on the sofa---finding more roses/bulbs/fruit trees/bushes/vines that I NEED and deciding where to plant them... It's a wonderful==never-ending cycle! |
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| I recently got a rice heating pad for my shoulders and neck and it is my new go-to thing after a long day of digging, I get it as hot as I can stand and then snuggle up and let the heat soak into my shoulders and loosen up all of the knots. When I have the time I take a nice long bath, but it seems like most days as soon as I finish gardening it's time to clean up and cook dinner, then I don't have energy for a bath ;oP |
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| A hot bath, a nap, a glass of wine, then another, dinner delivered, possibly another glass, then bed! Can't get any better than this when you're 70! |
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| Go to the barn to do all the work there I should have been doing while in the garden. |
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| The days of whine, wine, and roses:) |
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| I am usually prone to want to get in the bed for a few days afterwards as I have Fibromyalgia and especially at the start of gardening season, a good yard work out causes a flare. But...I know that doesn't help either,lol...so...I take hot baths...Aleve...then sit on my porch and watch my birds and squirrels...that usually helps! |
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