There’s a big gap between being disabled and being abled. When I first started this adventure, I balked at calling myself The Disabled Gardener. But I’m not disabled, I protested. My daughter asked, “Mom, are you able to do the gardening the way you used to? Then you’re disabled.” She was right. Luckily, I still …
Today’s topic on pain relief is about what I call soothers. Some people call this self-care. When I say self-care what image do you conjure up? A nice massage with the calming scent of lavender essential oils being rubbed luxuriously into your aching muscles and joints in a candle-lit room with gentle music playing? Wouldn’t …
I am patrolling the outside of my house vacuuming grasshoppers. I know this sounds inane, but this is my organic method of grasshopper control. These are not the regular brown grasshoppers that love tall, dry grass. These are Post Oak grasshoppers and they only live (and dine) on post oak trees. These interlopers showed up …