Aesop didn’t paint the grasshopper in a favorable light. While the industrious ant was busy working for its winter stores of food, the useless grasshopper was frittering its time away. I share Aesop’s opinion of the grasshopper – useless. Yes, it’s grasshopper vacuuming season for me. If you don’t know what that means, see my …
It’s been years since arthritis has allowed me to sit behind a desk full-time, but my accountant brain still kicks in sometimes and has me thinking of pain in terms of debt. Like your earnings, you have a limited amount of activity to spend before you go into debt. Pain debt. What does pain debt …
Do you talk to your plants? I am fascinated by the idea of plants communicating with us and with other plants. I’ll explore both topics this month. Today I will look at how plants communicate with one another and later this month, in The Language of Flowers, I’ll look at how plants communicate with us. …
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 …
Are you still trying to garden using traditional labor-intensive methods, but pain is inserting itself in the process and making your gardening life miserable? I know I was. As arthritis crept its way into my life, I suddenly found myself unable to do what I used to do. Did you know that arthritis is the …