I hurt my thumb!
When I bought this house 5 years ago, the yard had been sadly neglected for almost a decade. I spent the first three years here just chopping down and taking out (and that includes some of the many sheds the previous owner built, but that's another story.) Part of the struggle has been the war on mulberry-less mulberry trees...they sprout all along their roots long after you gleefully chop down the trees.
So, anyway, I'm trying to extend the back of my garden patch enough to add 2 or three rows of plants. That involves chopping and digging out the small mulberry-less mulberry trees that I'm cursed with, and the cherry laurels that the whole south is cursed with, so I was outside with the pick-ax having a go yesterday. I had taken a day off work to give myself a three day weekend in the garden, and there I was hacking away, making good progress, when youch!, there was a sharp pain in the meaty part of my thumb and palm. The Youch! was quickly followed by swelling. So, I had to interrupt my long gardening weekend to put ice on my thumb, or palm, I guess, to be more exact.
And now it's 24 hours later, and I still have swelling and pain, so I'm still bummed. And pouting.
But the good news is that I think I can run the tiller by padding the handle.
When I bought this house 5 years ago, the yard had been sadly neglected for almost a decade. I spent the first three years here just chopping down and taking out (and that includes some of the many sheds the previous owner built, but that's another story.) Part of the struggle has been the war on mulberry-less mulberry trees...they sprout all along their roots long after you gleefully chop down the trees.
So, anyway, I'm trying to extend the back of my garden patch enough to add 2 or three rows of plants. That involves chopping and digging out the small mulberry-less mulberry trees that I'm cursed with, and the cherry laurels that the whole south is cursed with, so I was outside with the pick-ax having a go yesterday. I had taken a day off work to give myself a three day weekend in the garden, and there I was hacking away, making good progress, when youch!, there was a sharp pain in the meaty part of my thumb and palm. The Youch! was quickly followed by swelling. So, I had to interrupt my long gardening weekend to put ice on my thumb, or palm, I guess, to be more exact.
And now it's 24 hours later, and I still have swelling and pain, so I'm still bummed. And pouting.
But the good news is that I think I can run the tiller by padding the handle.
