A Walk In The Woods and A Swim In The Lake

Hello everyone,

I can`t believe I haven`t posted an entry since last Tuesday, I`d better make up for it now. I thought about doing a summary for each day of last week but my problem is remembering exactly what happened each day...lol!  Now let`s see, last week was busy, busy, busy at work, just like I`d expected, I suppose it will only get busier as the planting season gets further underway. The last couple of days the bosses have been really miserable and I`m staying out of their way after having had my head bitten off more than once...sigh, never mind, I don`t go there to make friends so I`m not THAT bothered.

I`ve been doing some more gardening all week and I`m really pleased with the results. Everything is growing really well with the lovely sunshine we`ve been having. The only problem with that is we`re not getting any rain so I`ve had to water everything, thankfully I`ve been using the hosepipe as there is no ban in this area....yet, at this rate there will be another one in place as the forecast is for a long, very hot Summer. I`ve moved a deciduous azalia from the bottom of the garden to a more prominent place because it is being threatened with being strangled by bindweed coming through from the garden at the end of ours. The people who live there couldn`t care less about their garden so we are continually having to get rid of the weeds that grow through.

Do you remember the rose Jim bought me for Valentine`s Day?  Well it`s dead, I thought it looked a bit poorly so I dug around the roots and lo and behold they were beyond help. I planted it in the right place, in the right soil etc. so I suppose it`s just one of those things, I`ll just have to buy another and hope for the best.

Yesterday I ordered a new camera online. I decided to treat myself to one with a good zoom lens so I can take better photos, I find I`m limited with ours so I`m really looking forward to it arriving so I can try it out. Also yesterday I went to the hairdresser in the morning to have my roots done. Instead of my usual cut I decided to have it cut much shorter than usual and I`m delighted with the results. My hair is very thick and in this hot weather I find it pretty unmanageable so the new style is perfect.

Today after a long walk in Black Park, followed by a swim for Jake in the lake...hehehe...that rhymes!  Jake didn`t want to come out but eventually he was so tired from the exertions of swimming that he decided he`d had enough for one day. He spent most of the time in the water collecting not only the stick we threw for him but any others he found too. At one point he had about six in his mouth which caused him to swallow half of the lake, you should have heard the noise he was making with his coughing and spluttering, it was really funny.

When Jim came home from work earlier this afternoon he told me he`d hurt his back. I was thinking that he must have done it at work, but no, it just `went` before he`d even left the house this morning!  Anyway, he still wanted to go out walking this afternoon because he said it felt better than sitting down. It must have helped too because he started feeling a bit better after that. What also helped was using a TENS machine that Dan`s girlfriend, Salina gave us. She works for a company that supplies medical and surgical equipment and she had this machine left over. It is a battery controlled device with electrodes that you put on the painful area and switch on to the right level for you. You certainly  know about it if you`ve turned the device up too high, I did exactly that when I used it on my hand for the first time....I won`t make THAT mistake again, believe you me...lol Right, I`ll say goodnight to you all now and I`ll read as many journals as time will allow. Take care all of you. :o)