So this year’s garden has yielded SO MANY tomatoes! It’s been fun to pick off the big, juicy, ripe tomatoes. I won’t ever have a garden without Cherokee Purple tomatoes in the future. They taste so yummy! Kind of smokey, look really dark and pretty when you cut into them.
I have had more mishaps with gardening tasks this year… Earlier in the year it was bees. On Sunday, I went to plant some knock-out roses Ava picked-out for me on her date night with Daddy. Planting the very last roses, I caught my hand on a thorn. It was about a ½ tear below the base of my index finger on my left hand. A few hours later, I noticed that my middle knuckle of that index finger felt like it was bruised. I thought that was odd, because I had not done anything to injure it. It started to swell, later, to the point where it was too painful to use or push down the tip of my finger. I couldn't bend my finger or make it straight, it was that swollen. I looked-up rose thorn allergy on-line and found there is a “Rose Thorn Disease”. It appears that some roses carry a fungus that can really be harmful. The message board I looked at mentioned it was necessary to have an up-to-date tetanus shot. I waited overnight to see if the swelling would subside, but it didn’t. I called the advice nurse Monday morning, who suggested I get a tetanus shot. I felt kind of dumb walking into the doctor’s office for a simple rose thorn puncture! But I received a tetanus shot and two days later my index finger is no longer swollen. I will be steering clear of roses and thorns from now on, that much is certain. J
Peace, love and “Every Rose Has It’s Thorn,”
Shelly, Doug, Ava and Liam
Not my garden, but I loved what Pike's Nursery did with these plants. They look like stripes!
I love that these random flowers bloom in our driveway cracks. I'm still not sure what they are, but they teach me to "bloom where you are planted!"
Holy backyard mushrooms, Batman!
Mushrooms up close
These are Cherokee Purple tomatoes. So yummy and beautiful, too!
These tea roses just love where they are planted!
Can you spot the hot?
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