2016 brought many changes to the way we garden. Due to the cancer making it more difficult for me to go to the garden property and be out in the sun, on the rough terrain and get anything accomplished, and the fact that I just can't handle doing much at a time anymore, Mike and some helpers brought home the tubs from the garden in Milan, MI. We set up a Garden Restoration Party over Memorial Weekend and several friends came by to help us pull it all together. We painted planters, planted flowers and produce, and weeded overly neglected beds. By the end of the weekend, it looked amazing! We celebrated with a BarBQue with ribs, hot dogs, salads and Sangria. Mike and I want to thank everybody that came over and helped us, and continued to come by over the summer and help finish and maintain things.
Marcy Kat managed to help us remove 4 Moles that had been terrorizing the yard and flower beds which was a bonus we did not expect. She is an amazing cat we took in as a rescued Feral from the community. She still enjoys being outdoors, and we do keep her on a harness and leash, but we do believe she would never try to leave us...she is one spoiled feline!
Our Fall harvest was interrupted by surgery...again. I had apparently overdone it working in the yard and ended up needing a partial hip replacement on Sept. 22, and as I type this in February 2017, am still in rehab doing physical therapy as a result... HOPING that 2017 will be a better year. I am hoping that I'll be able to keep up with the blog posts better for 2017, my apologies for having neglected things, it was a really bad year...let's just leave it at that.
Our goal for 2017 is to be able to move out of the mobile home community into a "real house" with a yard of our own we can have full control of. The management here just does not seem to think the residents should actually be able to use their yards as a living space... and I for one, am sick of being stuck indoors as a result.
Pray for us that this dream can come true... we'll do our best to keep ya'll updated! tlc
Marcy Kat managed to help us remove 4 Moles that had been terrorizing the yard and flower beds which was a bonus we did not expect. She is an amazing cat we took in as a rescued Feral from the community. She still enjoys being outdoors, and we do keep her on a harness and leash, but we do believe she would never try to leave us...she is one spoiled feline!
Our Fall harvest was interrupted by surgery...again. I had apparently overdone it working in the yard and ended up needing a partial hip replacement on Sept. 22, and as I type this in February 2017, am still in rehab doing physical therapy as a result... HOPING that 2017 will be a better year. I am hoping that I'll be able to keep up with the blog posts better for 2017, my apologies for having neglected things, it was a really bad year...let's just leave it at that.
Our goal for 2017 is to be able to move out of the mobile home community into a "real house" with a yard of our own we can have full control of. The management here just does not seem to think the residents should actually be able to use their yards as a living space... and I for one, am sick of being stuck indoors as a result.
Pray for us that this dream can come true... we'll do our best to keep ya'll updated! tlc
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