We are having the family over for a bbq today. The usual 4th of July fare, hamburgers and potato salad. There will be side dishes, of course. Daughter M requested cosmopolitans and who am I to disagree? There's nothing better than a pink drink.
I fell in my garden yesterday trying to cut back spent cannas. This is the rainy season in Central Florida and the ground is mushy. I was barefoot and couldn't maintain my balance. I fell slowly and fully aware of the ridiculousness of it, right into the cannas. Then I had more to prune, as so many stems were broken. I fell on my right arm and now it hurts. Not so badly that I can't still cook and clean for company. Oh well.
I am so not proud of the Divided States of America right now. But I live in hope, with a side of fear.
No Independence Day here in the UK, but wishing you a happy celebration! Though I'm not sure there's much to celebrate now in the political sphere. I hope your arm recovers quickly.
ReplyDeleteOuch! Be careful, please! Broken bones and even sprains are no fun at all. (And we are all about fun, right?)
ReplyDeleteHoping your arm heals quickly.
ReplyDeleteAways keeping hope alive. No matter what happens.
Had to look up if to see cannas thrive in my area of the Pacific Northwest. They do. But what came up first was "cannabis" (-: (-: (-:
I hope that despite everything, you have a good day, and that your arm feels better soon:)
ReplyDeleteI am still trying to believe that our states are only bickering but not divided. Hope I'm right. Are you okay? Falls are not good things. Take care of yourself please.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about the fall. Hope nothing is broken and your arm feels better soon. We celebrated yesterday, too. It may be looking crazy right now but it is our country and somehow we will get rid of the MAGAs and fix it.
ReplyDeleteThanks to the canna lilies, could have been paving stones. Take care, get better.
ReplyDeleteSo true.
DeleteI think you need to consider some body armor. It doesn't seem too long ago that you fell and broke your kneecap. I hope healing goes quickly.
ReplyDeleteYou made me laugh.
DeleteOh no! I hope your arm is OK. Do you think it warrants a doctor visit? Our canna is barely alive -- it sent up a single stalk and no sign of flowers yet, but I am hopeful.
ReplyDeleteHow do you handle it in the winter? When I lived in NYS they were considered an annual, unless you took them out of the ground and store them in the house.
DeleteI've been alone at our house in the country, with no neighbours for a mile, for the past week. One day I sat on a lawn chair on the step without noticing its back legs were too close to the edge, and it fell backward with me in it. Fortunately it fell against a tall trellis that bent, but held the chair at a 45-degree angle so I didn't fall on my head and was able to clamber out without being hurt. I could've broken my f'n neck! Then how long would I have lain on the grass without anyone knowing I was down and out ... ah, yet another reason it's good to keep in close touch, daily, with anyone who lives alone. I'm glad you too had a soft fall!
ReplyDeleteThen yesterday afternoon while I was sitting outside, chatting with a relative over the phone, there was a loud crash indoors. I came rushing in, to find a very large, heavy, framed print had fallen off the wall and smashed its glass. Imagine if that had happened during the night as I lay alone in our bed out here in the boonies -- I would've been terrified someone was breaking into the house. My pants would never have come clean!
So I like to think myself lucky, both times, to have little scares that didn't amount to anything. I hope your arm is no worse for wear today; sometimes we don't feel the injury for 24 hours or even 48.
As for the Divided States of America, I too want to believe that somehow the clear-thinking, sensible, decent Americans will find a way to make it all okay again. I don't want to think about what happened in Germany and remember that the worst happened and that it could happen again, IS happening. It's very frightening and I wonder how many of us ordinary people would have the courage to be resistance fighters, risking our own lives and the lives of their families, if it comes to that. I don't know that I'd have the guts. I hope I would.
Lovely comment, thanks. I have a friend who lives alone and I worry about her, which makes her mad. Ha. As for resistance fighting, remember that poem by Emily Dickinson:
DeleteWe never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies—
Sorry about your achy arm. Hope you all had an enjoyable time together.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Yes, we did.
DeleteBeautiful photo, Colette! I hope you heal quickly. Warm greetings from Montreal, Canada.
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