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| Annika |
Posted - Apr 27 2012 : 07:30:47 AM
Good morning! I missed y'all and needed to see what everyone was up to this Spring. I've been having a rough time dealing with a crippled up knee and learning to live with constant pain, but I'm adapting. Some days when you're in a lot of pain you just don't want to either rattle on and on at people or be Miss Crabbydrawers, so I've not posted in a while 
I'm working on a series of tub gardens for this year since I can't get down to the ground to weed and garden like I used to. The biggest worry is getting tall enough and strong fencing around my garden area to keep the landlady's goats out. Cattle panels are just so spendy these days and they utterly trashed the electric mesh that I got last year.
Glad to finally feel smiley enough to post again 
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
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| pinkroses |
Posted - Jul 03 2012 : 09:47:20 AM
I can relate to you
I am Diabetic 2 and have lots of conditions and diseases
I am always in pain ; most of the time .
It is hard to stay cheerful when you are always in pain
Living with pain all the time; has humbled me .
I am grateful it isn't worse .
hugs and prayers to you . sheila
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| jeanb |
Posted - Jul 03 2012 : 09:13:23 AM
Hope everything is going well. Haven't heard from you in a while, how's the knee doing? |
| frannie |
Posted - Jun 12 2012 : 11:01:24 AM
welcome back, annika. you have surely been missed.
love
frannie in texas
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| texdane |
Posted - Jun 11 2012 : 4:36:40 PM
Hi Annika!
So glad to see you back. I am sorry to hear about your knee pain! I've missed you, mu friend!
Nicole
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| prayin granny |
Posted - Jun 11 2012 : 07:33:03 AM
Welcome back!
Hope you are in less pain and feeling better each day!
I do small container gardening. It's fun and enjoyable!
Have a good day everyone!
Blessings,
Linda
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| farmmilkmama |
Posted - Apr 27 2012 : 4:50:47 PM
So glad to see you posting again! I know we all go through times when we just can't post so I understand that. I am sorry to hear that you're dealing with knee issues, and hope that you continue to get stronger every day! :)
--* FarmMilkMama *--
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Everyone else is already taken.
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| laurentany |
Posted - Apr 27 2012 : 3:27:50 PM
Well hello there Annika! So nice to see a post from you. Glad you are feeling up to posting again. I am sure your raised gardens will be awesome. I will say a prayer for you that you get stronger everyday and will be feeling like your old self again soon!
Hugs,
~Laurie
"Little Hen House on the Island"
Farmgirl Sister#1403
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| gramadinah |
Posted - Apr 27 2012 : 2:21:26 PM
I was just wondering how you were doing. Glad to see you are back.
Diana
Farmgirl Sister #273 |
| pinkroses |
Posted - Apr 27 2012 : 11:45:52 AM
Glad you are back; I too can identfiy with your knee pain.
I have RA ;getting worse now
knees and every thing hurts ;
I find the ben gay works really well
I use the none smelling kind .
hope your pain gets better soon, hugs
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| pennyhenny |
Posted - Apr 27 2012 : 11:29:38 AM
So sorry to hear about your knee. Hopefully it will mend soon and you will be up and running around on no time. Tub gardens? This sounds interesting to me...hope to see or hear more about them from you.
hugs,
-missy-
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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.
John Harrigan |
| Okie Farm Girl |
Posted - Apr 27 2012 : 11:10:47 AM
I hate to hear about your knee!! I had surgery on my left knee and I know how yucky the pain is. I sure hope that you get better and stronger and that the pain just goes away for good!!!
Mary Beth
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www.Oklahomapastrycloth.com/blog
The Sovereign Lord is my strength - Habakkuk 3:19 |
| AlyssaMarie |
Posted - Apr 27 2012 : 10:58:48 AM
Sorry you've been feeling so poorly Annika! I hope the spring sunshine helps your spirits! I'm sorry I've been so out of the loop and lost touch.
AlyssaMarie @ Link'd Hearts Ranch
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| Alee |
Posted - Apr 27 2012 : 10:02:26 AM
Welcome back, Annika! You sure have been missed around here! I am so sorry to hear about your knee! Does wearing a brace or wrapping it with an ACE bandage help at all?
*Hugs*
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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| Blessed in Colorado |
Posted - Apr 27 2012 : 09:25:43 AM
Welcome back Annika, I understand your knee pain after 4 knee surgeries. Keeping up with your exercises is the key even though it hurts, and ice. If you keep your ice packs on at least 15 minutes the knees numb then the knees start feeling so much better, believe me.
Hang in there and I will keep you in my prayers and thoughts.
Hugs,
Debbie
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| Bear5 |
Posted - Apr 27 2012 : 08:45:49 AM
Annika: Happy planting, and do take care of yourself. A friend of mine recently had knee replacements, and she is doing great. She is still slow at walking and uses a cane. The doctor told her by summer she should be walking on her own. Keep us posted, Annika, and again, it's so nice to see your posts again.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
| Annika |
Posted - Apr 27 2012 : 08:41:15 AM
As for exercise, its been kind of rough over the winter learning to get around with a cane and I've been rather house bound. But I've been doing a lot of dance stretches and leg exercises at home. I'm working on walking so that I can do our local trails, and hopefully, some small hikes around our nearby wilderness areas. So far, I'm rather slow and clumsy, but I'm not too worried about it.
Marly, I'm growing a bunch of heirlooms and some organic potato varieties, Yukon Gold and Desiree. I'll be getting what I can for tomatoes, eggplants, peppers and other long season veggies at our local farmer's market. This is the list so far ...Golden midget water melon, coosa summer squash, lincoln peas, potimarron winter squash, cocozelle summer squash, old fashioned yellow crookneck, all manner of greens, both western and asian! little round Parisian carrots, poona keera cucumber, romano and fava beans for trellising, red cipolinni onions from Italy, amish snap peas, fin de bagnol beans, mini muskmelons, rapini broccoli, musquee de provence pumpkin, bush delicata squash, a zillion different herbs and more to come =) All to be grown in big tubs and pots! I want to try to plant mounds of golden bantam corn so that I can have fresh organic corn this summer and I'm coming up with a series of hoops to grow them in as wind protection since corn tends to get knocked flat out here. You can buy "hula" hoops at the dollar store and it would give me a very bright garden to have all of the kid colored hoops supporting my corn!
So....I am aiming big as usual but I am hoping that at least half of what I plant makes it and it will be a lesson in container gardening with a bad knee. OH! and my plum trees have blossomed great guns and are buzzing with bees, so I'm hoping for a good plum crop. These are the little golden European Mirabelle plum and they make delightful syrups and jellies!
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
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| Ninibini |
Posted - Apr 27 2012 : 08:12:27 AM
YAY! Welcome back, my friend! I sure have missed you! Hugs - Nini
Farmgirl Sister #1974
God gave us two hands... one to help ourselves, and one to help others!
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| jollyquilter |
Posted - Apr 27 2012 : 07:38:09 AM
So glad to hear you feeling better and hope you solve the goat issue. Some how just getting your hands in the dirt in springtime seems to make things bearable. I will be thinking of you and hope that the pain is bearable.
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| Bear5 |
Posted - Apr 27 2012 : 07:37:39 AM
Nice to see you posting again, Annika. What are you planting in your garden this year?
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
| jeanb |
Posted - Apr 27 2012 : 07:36:42 AM
Sorry to hear about your knee problem, what a bummer. Are you doing any exercises for it? Riding a bike might be a good one, also from a sitting position extending your knee forward. Of course ice works as well. Hope it gets better so you can do more, take your time go slow and wear a knee brace when working. |
