April 21, 2010

• Bell can keep his old palsy

  So now I’ve got Bell’s Palsy which means the left side of my face doesn’t work any more.  And the Doctor says 3 to 6 months like that.  Maybe a year.  And it hurts.  And it’s been over a week already.  But saying ‘Peter Pepper picks a peck of pickled peppers’ is a true challenge now.  Not to mention that it’s funny looking.  The major real problem is that my eye doesn’t close completely and tends to dry out so I have to keep eyedrops with me all the time and use a patch at night.

  So – anyway – whining over.  This spring has been beautiful so far.  Everything that should be is flowering – I might even get inspired to take a picture some time.  Haven’t had a lot of energy the last couple weeks.  I’ve been deadheading the daffodils and discovered that my balance is also off, so have had to get someone else to scamper up and down the hillside to get to the ones growing there.  And I had a lovely blue flower growing along the walk that I’ve decided must be an anemone.  There were several things I planted last fall whose labels got raked away with the leaves.  Frustrating.  But the astilbes and Heuchera in the front yard – shady areas – are coming up, as well as the ferns.  The big snowstorms here took quite a toll on our shrubbery (and roof, but that’s another story).  We lost several large junipers and pyrocantha and had a number of other plants cut way back.  The front of the house  is getting more sun than it’s had in years.  Plus we’ve got to come up with a scheme for the semicircular garden patch at the bend of the driveway.  The shrubs there were too big anyway.  Things get that way after 20 years or so. 

  The shrubbery was destroyed not only by the weight of the heavy thick snow, but also by the glacier on the roof calving all over it.  However, we now know that solarium glass is truely tough – branches broke everywhere, outside lights were sheared off the front of the house, but the solarium is still intact!  (To my surprise.)

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