Water Garden Bliss

My sister Shannon, the beautiful, intelligent, successful one, is also blessed with a green thumb. Her gardens are amazing, and rightfully so. Shan spends many, many hours each week with her scissors and gloves, trimming, dead-heading, and cleaning up the gardens.

The steaming hot days of central Illinois have taken their toll on regular gardens, but Shannon's water garden has thrived. The splash of the waterfall is music to tired ears.

Thank you, Shannon, for sharing your beauty with me.

shel

Pain, Pain, Go Away

I can't believe it...all year long I have looked forward to the Women in the Outdoors event that was held this past weekend, sponsored by the DeWitt County Longbeards. I couldn't go! On Wednesday my upper left leg ached, like someone had taken a meat mallet to it while I was sleeping. I went to the chiropractor, Dr. Allen, who popped my back and massaged the mass of muscles that were tied in knots above my left hip. The pain spread to my right leg, then down to the bottom half of both legs. Luckily I had some pain pills that have knocked me out and kept me sane. I went back to Dr. Allen late Friday afternoon and he has decided that, instead of having a messed up spine, the pain in my legs is caused by an infection. Unfortunately my family doctor can't see me until tomorrow afternoon, so I'm stuck with this.

My niece Erin suggested that the shingles that I had in my left eye last month could have somehow traveled to other parts of my body. My left eye is still much smaller than my right, so I suppose that is always possible. I wonder how the doctor checks for that.

At any rate, I'm sorry that I missed out on the Women in the Outdoors event, and have been unable to help my parents. Tomorrow is another day, however....I'll feel better then.

shel