adventures in gardening... and knee pain

Last week my knees were bothering me more every day. It finally hit me that I had not been taking glucosamine for about a week. Once I got on that again, I started feeling much less pain. It doesn't fix the problem, but it certainly does make it bearable. Cliff and I have both gone through phases of thinking, "I'm wasting my money on this stuff", only to realize after a week or so that our arthritis pain is greatly increased when we don't take it.

A lot was accomplished in the garden yesterday.

Cliff and I got the tomato cages put up, so those little Legend Tomato plants are ready to go (and grow)!

They all look quite happy in their cages.

The Kentucky Wonder beans are awake and searching for sunlight.

I hauled some manure to the garden and tilled it in. While doing that, I noticed one of the the usual neighbor's horses was out, heading for my yard. That's when it struck me that the electric fence was unplugged. I went running to plug it in, but when I did so, it didn't start clicking! Later I found out Cliff had unplugged the extension cord at the other end, while he was mowing. That horse came charging to the garden and managed to stretch out the electric wire pretty badly, knocking off some insulators, before he decided the wire was not something he wanted to stretch any more. He made it about six feet into the garden and missed my single eggplant by about an inch, but thankfully, no damage was done. Of course his owners weren't home. ::Note to self: Keep that electric fence plugged in at all times:: Although the animal tromped all over the back yard, no flowers were damaged, either. I wish there were some legal means to keep this from happening, but I don't know of anything we can do except keep the electric fence on. If it had been working when the horse ran into it, he wouldn't have stretched it out... he would have made a run for home!


All's well that ends well, right? Except of course we know it will happen again. And again.