2: Our gardening diaries - from latest toys, flowers to wildlife .. Please upload pics

[Logan]

Yes, we've got 1 just in front of our house, which stays on, but 2 up the close that gets turned off. They come back on at 6am. The ones that go off at midnight,if they go faulty we don't report them.

They usually stay on all the time.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Morning all, looks set to be a lovely day.

Sadly I'm in the middle of a bad arthritis flare up.....never had one come on quite as sudden or servere before. My whole spine is locked and feels like there is a steel rod running throughout its length and both hips are grumbling away too, and to add to matters my recently operated on foot is giving me trouble.........going to look on eBay for a new body

So .... yet again I think my poor tulips will have to wait to be planted out!

We have absolutely no streetlights at all.......so its gets very dark and spooky here.........not even keen to go to the rubbish bins went it's dark......not that anything has ever happened But it gets pitch black and as we are surrounded by trees........things move!!!!!

Have a Fruitful Friday everyone

 

[Logan]

@Upsy Daisy sorry to hear about your flare up of arthritis. It's annoying when we can't get about. Your tulips should be fine,i haven't planted mine yet. Hope you feel better soon.

 

[johnny canoe]

Hope you feel better soon Upsy Daisy. I understand a bit of what you go through, one of my sisters has suffered with rheumatoid arthritis for decades now.

 

[Logan]

They're lovely @johnny canoe i've been getting coal tits. They bury food in the tubs.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Thanks @Logan and @johnny canoe .....my bro. has had RA. since he was 18 and I have had OA since I was 24....... definitely not fun

Lovely pics jc

 

[Upsy Daisy]

I've been spoilt this week ...2 bouquets of flowers!!

 

[alp]

I must say tulips are more interesting than daffs!

 

[alp]

going to look on eBay for a new body

Really love your humour! Shall we shop together? LOL! Nothing funny at all. Knee cap locks up all the time. Terrible moan, but pain is really nothing funny.. Glad that you keep your sense of humour.. RA is seriously painful. Hope your sis has the right medications.

Thank heavens we have @johnny canoe 's cuties birds to cheer me up. I always go Whoooooa! and cackle.. I love birds. Mother in law used to say my son had competition. Such fantastic close ups.. The closest encounters we have had were feeding nectar to parakeets in Woburn Abbey ..and the birds were very aggressive and noisy, not demure like these ..

 

[Upsy Daisy]

@johnny canoe is that a black squirrel in your first pic? I've heard that there are quite a few in the Calgary area......all are suppose to be descendants from those that escaped from a zoo during a flood many years ago.....or so I have been told

 

[Upsy Daisy]

What is life without humour @alp...

 

[marlingardener]

We had our first duck of the season on the pond this morning--a grebe! Since the Cornell Lab Bird Count starts tomorrow, we were seriously considering netting the duck and then letting him/her go tomorrow so we could count a duck on our pond (a practice frowned on in ornithological circles).
And on a more serious note, after twisting my knee and being on crutches for two days, I have the utmost admiration for those who are in pain and suffer constant discomfort. You are truly strong people, and the fact that you retain your sense of humor and still garden is amazing. My gardening hat is off to you!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Hope you soon feel better @marlingardener .......not that I'm nosey LOL:) but how did you hurt yourself......or shouldn't I ask

 

[Logan]

@Upsy Daisy lovely flowers.
@alp have you thought of a knee replacement?
@marlingardener hope you feel better soon.

 

[alp]

@johnny canoe Now I can see the black squirrel! Amazing. We don't have that here. Are those two birds the same or different. One has got a long tail and the other got a reddish belly.. So pretty.. I wish I could feed them like that! I am turning into a parrot! LOL!

The consultant told me that I was too young for knee replacement and that those who have it won't be able to flex their knee. So he discharge me as I didn't go to the physio. I will go on the bike.. anything for self-help.