Garden Greens May 22nd

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Garden Greens on the morning of May 22.

Dear Blog Friends

I am still having considerable difficulty with my right leg and am now seeing a chiropractor on a daily basis.
As soon as I'm physically able I'll be taking more pictures again, and giving more comprehensive information in my posts here I promise.
Not being able to walk more than a few yards at a time is a humbling experience but I'm hoping this setback is only temporary.

Fresh Picked Greens

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Peggy collecting greens for a lunch salad in her recently completed pine-needle bowl.

The Goods!

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Fresh picked greens and a few thinned young radishes.

Lupinus excubitus

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Young Grape Soda Lupine leaves create mounds of lovely textured gray-green foliage throughout the native plant garden before the flowers explode into a dazzling purple extravaganza.

Arctostaphylos patula

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Green-Leaf Manzanita blooming in the native plant garden today.
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Castilleja applegatei

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Indian Paintbrush is beginning to bloom throughout the habitat.

May 14th---Weeding

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This is where I spend much of April, May & June.
Weeding and watching the beauty of the days unfold.
Even this extremely sore leg can't keep me out of here!
I can take 3 or 4 hours of weeding & piddling around (no heavy stuff) before I have to get horizontal with a book, and a TENS unit for pain relief (Thanks Frank!).
I do several laps around the block every day on my bike with no discomfort and, oddly enough, that sort of Indian position I'm sitting in up there seems to stretch and relax the muscles.
More therapy this week it seems...
I need to get past this sciatica thing , there's a lot that needs doing around here.
But those few hours outside, with the living things, still get me excited over what tomorrow will bring, pain or no pain!
Shit happens!

Oyster Shell Lime

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Our pine forest soil is on the acid side so Peggy is adding oyster-shell lime to the new pea beds which prefer somewhat alkaline soil.

The Raised Bed Gardens Today!

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Looking to the southwest across the raised bed gardens this morning shows the progress of our assortment of spring greens.

Our New Black Australorp Chicks

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At the corner feed store yesterday we discovered a bunch of four-week old chicks on sale including nine Black Australorps (my favorite hens) so we bought all nine.

Sorry For The Interlude...

I've apparently injured my hip and it seems that I have a pinched nerve which is causing me great discomfort.

At this point I can barely walk more than a few feet so nothing is getting done around here and I have nothing to post.

I'm spending my time reading while trying to figure the best natureopathic/holistic way to deal with this problem.

Any advice along those lines would be highly appreciated.

I'll be seeing a chiropractor this week if I can find one that doesn't require X-Rays because I refuse to support industrial medicine and its toxic invasive methods.

But I hope I will be walking, gardening and blogging again very soon!

Love, Jim