My gardening day and my new tin knee!

I have this day, for the very first time in about 3 maybe 4 years, done a really hard day's gardening! Let me detail it for you

1. planted up two hanging baskets and one little pod basket
2. planted out 12 begonias, 36 pansies, 12 dwarf lavender, 2 dozen antirrhinum and 24 sweet peas!

[I also planted out 4 dozen lobelia: there's a tale to this - for years I've like to have lobelia in my front garden. I have this dream of having swaths of pretty blue blossoms cascading over the wall of my built up flower bed and the hanging baskets. The last three years I struck out because though the label said "trailing" they didn't. This year I thought one more time so I bought two trays of 24 plants. Just now I brought the labels in to enter in my gardening diary only to find I've bought UPRIGHT lobelias! ]

To continue
3. put in 30 Maris Piper potatoes into three growing bags
4. moved about a dozen foxgloves and aquilegia from where they had taken root to a more convenient place!
5. planted out two aubretia and two pansies that have survived the winter in plant pots left on the drive way. They look a bit ropey but you got to admire hardiness like that! I reckoned they deserved a chance to come through
6. did a little weeding and tidied out the purple sprouting broccoli which is almost due for harvesting (yum, yum!)
7. moved 4 bags of peat that have been in the wrong place all winter. One more to me moved but I can't get it off the floor so my chap will have to do that!
8. moved 8 bricks that got left outside the back door
9. watered everything that needed it
10. tried to clean a green rubber mat with knobbles on that was embedded with moss and muck. Then remembered I recently treated myself to a power washer so got it out and christened it! Having dealt with the mat, started on the concrete outside the back door and then really got carried away! Was washing this and washing that - going great guns and then I sprayed lower down wall to get rid of some moss ...............

............................... then I went indoors and put all my clothes in the washing machine and had a wash!
In future I'll know not to power wash a wall when I'm standing in front of it!

But the greatest denouement is that, having been out in the garden from 11am until 4pm, I have had not a single complaint from either knee. Not a whimper! Isn't that great?

So to all of you who are wondering what the aftermath of a knee replacement will be, wondering if you will be disabled afterwards - the answer is NO! Accidents or mishaps excepting, you get back your life in full. No ifs, ands or buts! Why waste time when you can do that? I can't tell you - I feel so good I could cry!

 

That was one busy,busy day Daisees!

 

Well done Daisees

Sounds like a good day, you must be as tired as I am now

Felt like JWK today, powered by tea & dandelion coffee.

Good to get out there & get your hands (and clothes) dirty

 

Well done Daisees ,You had a great day by the sounds of it .Hope you sleep well tonight ..
Dave

 

So glad to hear you are feeling on top form Daisees. :yess:

 

A brilliant days work Daisees :thumb: I hope you're well rewarded for it with a lovely garden
And great that you're getting the reward for your knee replacement too hap feet

 

Good for you Daisiees, im really pleased for you.

 

WTG Daisees ! Great to hear a success story like that. Maybe next year for the Lobelia...dont give up!!

Steve...

 

Thats brilliant news Daisees as I was only just talking to one of the old boys at our allotment yesterday afternoon as he has just had his second hip replacement operation {ceramic} and we got on to the subject of knee replacements and he said that once you have the knees done you can never ever kneel down again so he must have beeen winding me up as you have just proved him to be wrong.

PS,Touch wood I will never have to go down that route but who knows what the future may bring

 

Fantastic news Daisees.. I am so pleased about the knees. And that sure was a load of work for one day.

 

That's fantastic!

 

Wow, thanks everybody! You made my day with all your nice posts!

Kandy, some people get told that and it's rubbish! In fact, you wouldn't believe the rubbish I hear people have been told on BoneSmart! However, it was true in the old days when we used fixed hinged knee implants. Since they would only go to 85 or 90 degrees, kneeling was pretty much impossible.

But it has to be said, some people are a bit leery of kneeling on the scar and I'm one of them. But then I never have been a kneeler. I always bend down from the hips which doesn't seem to give me back ache or anything. But a friend of mine laid decking about 6 months after her knee replacement and built a raised bed in brick and stone. She did plenty of kneeling then!

 

An impressive list of tasks accomplished, and great news about the knee taking it all in its stride (as it were!). Marvellous.