January 1 2024 - May we all be blessed, protected, and healthy this year. Stop all wars!!
On New Year's Eve, I drove to Home Depot to buy soil additives for the 2024 organic veg garden. I injured my right knee posteriorly by tearing or pulling a ligament while heaving a bag of humus/compost/manure from the car's trunk into the organic garden to avoid stepping on dormant strawberries and passing through killer blackberry brambles that drain me of a pint of blood when they snag my thinning delicate skin. I believe I injured a ligament as its' quite painful to walk. Good thing I didn't make resolutions that a gimping, old woman such as myself could not fulfill hobbling with an old wooden cane I bought my Mother 30 years ago at a Vermont country store, second-hand in 1993. I read an old wives' tale on the Bob Vila email page I receive daily that no one should wash dishes or do laundry or sweep on New Year's Day as it's bad luck. Okay! Not that I want yesterday's dirty dishes in my 1929 cast iron sink to sit there, but it's too painful...