When The Fixer and I moved to this property over 10 years ago, I needed gardens fast. Moving households for me has always meant moving plants. The number had grown over the years, and I had plastic bins and trashcans full of roses, irises, peonies, and other cherished passalong plants. I even had a trash …
You’ve been struggling with physical things lately. Increasingly you need help. Your joints are swollen, you’re losing energy to keep up with the things you used to do all day long. Your doctor runs tests. You spend a few weeks anxious about the results. And then they finally return with the results and jovially claim, …
For Gardeners with Arthritis Pamper your favorite gardener this holiday season with thoughtful gifts that will help build the Pillars of Strength to keep them gardening for many seasons to come! I’ve compiled a special list of 18 gift ideas for your special gardener. 1. Vego Garden Raised Bed From $160 These sustainable, zinc-coated raised …
Gardeners are on their feet – a lot! Is it a cliché that women love shoes? Expensive shoes? Lots of them? But what happens when we go to the garden? We give our feet the Cinderella treatment. I don’t mean the fairy tale ending, prince charming sweeping treatment. I’m talking about the relegation-of-the-lowliest chores kind …
Are you caught in a gardening quandary? Gardening is your passion and it’s what you want to be doing, but your body’s not cooperating? There are many good reasons to continue gardening well into old age. Gardening’s good for your health and well-being Gardening provides movement for your body and joy for your mind Gardening …
I like to dream big when it comes to the garden. My annual letter to Santa typically consists of outrageous and practical gardening gifts. My outrageous wish list includes: Greenhouse (a perennial on my list) She-shed (beautifully designed, with potting bench, room for all my tools and a few lovely antiques) A trip to Hawaii …
I need a new mattress. I hate mattress shopping. You want to get a good deal and not overpay but it’s so confusing and impossible to comparison shop. Plus, shopping is exhausting when you have chronic pain. When my old mattress was about ten years old, I started trying to shop. I compared different types of high-end mattresses. The Fixer …
Some of my best gifts ever have been Mother’s Day gifts. Some husbands don’t think it’s their responsibility to get their wives a Mother’s Day gift – she’s not my mother, they might think. But The Fixer has always honored Mother’s Day as a hallowed holiday. He modeled to our children that mothers should be …
My friends’ children are all getting married these days and having babies themselves. When you get to a certain age, girlfriend conversations invariably turn to “what do you think is the most important thing to look for in a mate”. The amusing answers, rich and employed, are suggested and quickly turn to – loving, a …
Has chronic pain caused you to abandon your gardening dreams? The Garden Tower is a great way to reconnect to your gardening passion without digging. Although the Garden Tower was on my gift wish list a few years back, I was surprised and delighted to receive it. In the beginning, it was slow going, but …