End of May

 

I am glad to see that the columbine have recovered from several years of saw fly attack.  The Willow told me to sprinkle coffee grounds on them to deter the flies.  I was sure this spring that I had lost most of them, but they surprised me, along with all the perennials that go from nothing to two feet seemingly overnight.

 

We need rain, in a bad way.  We didn't get much snow last winter and this spring has been dry.  I have several oaks taking a big blow from brown tailed moths.  They are invasive aliens that look like a tent caterpillar and have hairs that can give a burning itchy rash and lung irritation if inhaled.

 

I am recovering from peeling a strip off my right palm.  I snagged my foot on a down electric fence wire while carrying a five gallon bucket with a broken plastic spool on the handle. The weight of me on the hand holding the sharp piece as I went head first acted like a vegetable peeler and took a quarter inch wide three inch long chunk of skin out of my palm.  

 

UGH.  Tough time of year for a hand wound that requires wrapping, and makes holding anything in the dominant hand painful.

 

Lucky for me I had some large sterile gauze pads.  I have been tearing strips of fabric to wrap around my hand and wrist to keep the gauze in place.  It works terrific, since the three bandaids required would stay on a minute at best,  Although I did have some band aid brand ones that stuck so well the plastic had to be chipped  and pulled off which was extremely painful.  A good squeeze of neosporin on the gauze seems to help keep it from sticking, the wrap-an old jersey torn in strips has been the best.

 

Oh yeah, typing is painful too.  And I did it a week ago.  Grrrr.