Mish-mash Wednesday, and Lyme Disease, To Boot!

Dear Gardening Friends,

Rob. (Au Coeur du Jardin) gave me some ideas for today: I just LOVE his stone planter...that knocked-me-out! You've got to go take a look at it 'cause it's just way cool! He also 'tweaked' my curiosity about some interesting ideas for plants in pots, and reminded me that I had actually intended to plant some catmint this year and have forgotten!!

I have blue salvia:


and I have blue lavender:


-but I forgot the catmint! I'll get on it...perhaps even today (if I can 'stumble' out of the house)!

Actually, I must put on my 'boot' and head on over to the doctors because my blood test was Positive for Lyme Disease! Yuck. Maybe that's why I've been literally feeling so bad! I've just finished a round of doxycyclene (for a TICK BITE 3 weeks ago that became infected). I was not going to blog about it...kind of didn't go along with my 'goal' to have a nice, calm 'pretty' blog w/not a lot of personal info, etc. (For SERIOUS Tick Bite horrors (and recovery!) visit JoAnne's Cottage Garden).

As you can see, I'm starting to 'come out of my shell' (haha, the turtle post comes to mind here!) and if you don't mind, there may be more times when I will want to write some things that might indicate my 'lack of thankfulness' on this Thankfulness Blog!! I hope it doesn't change your opinion of my ThanksFor2Day intentions!!

My doctor called yesterday, and wants me to go through another round of antibiotics. Hopefully I'll get this Lyme thing under control before I get 'laid up' worse than I already am!!!

Hope everyone is enjoying 'being in the month of June'. It's sometimes hard for me to believe the time we all spent all winter long--writing of wanting the spring & summer months to get here--are already here!! Yay! It's wonderful. Only thing is, I'm laid up with a sprained ankle--and Lyme Disease, to boot!! ha ha (no pun intended on the 'boot' reference--well, yes there was, actually)!

Ok. Hope you're all having a great day! My next post will have some photos of what's blooming in my front and side yard! And I will post my backyard makeover. I just took too many photos and have had trouble sorting them all out;-)

--Today I am thankful--I really am--but don't feel like searching deep within to find out what for. I guess I'm thankful that it's not 'mandatory' that I do.

Wednesday Words

This was going to be a 'Wordless Wednesday' post, but sometimes that just won't work. At least not right now.

(A few of the perennials currently blooming in my garden) *Click on collage to enlarge

I have been nursing a sprained ankle for over a week now and wearing a 'boot', and/or using crutches every day now. I did manage to walk around for most of a day without support-with my ankle wrapped in an ace-bandage--while we went out on our boat this past weekend. It didn't bother me much and I enjoyed being on the boat, swimming and being out with my family. But afterwards, it was so swollen up-and it still aches from putting my full weight on it all day Sunday. Now I know I really need to wear the darned boot for support and I've been good about it ever since.I'm supposed to wear this contraption for 4 weeks. Surely I won't last that long; I cannot garden with this on my leg! I'm sure it will be off frequently so I can do small jobs in the garden. I've already missed so many changes that have been taking place because I haven't been able to get out there and walk around and/or take photos!

I don't even want to say how I sprained my ankle, but I will anyway. I was sitting in my recliner, using my laptop (what else is new?!) when my left foot got pins and needles...just numbness from staying in the same place for too long without moving. So I got up out of the chair and attempted to move my foot around, stomp on it, etc., when it just suddenly collapsed and gave out on me! I heard 3 loud 'cracking' sounds and just said to myself, 'oh no', not again! I was reminded of when I ripped my ACL in my right knee, 2 years ago. That had me laid up for ages. I won't tell you how that happened. It was almost as 'lame' as this accident. OK...I'll tell you: I was on a step-ladder, filling a birdfeeder, and lost my balance. I took a step backwards thinking it was the next step, but it was the ground instead, and my ACL snapped. I do sound rather clumsy, don't I? Funny, I haven't thought of myself that way before but am suddenly starting to wonder!

I have tons of lovely garden photos from the past several weeks that need to be posted. I just don't seem to manage to upload them fast enough and then they just don't get put on my blog. At some point I'll probably do some 'mish-mash' posts like I've seen some other bloggers do.

Meanwhile, please take some time to enjoy your garden--and the gifts it brings to you!

--Today I am thankful for gifts in my garden-even when I have a sprained ankle and cannot appreciate them.