Cindi - I've actually been having the windows open almost every single day this month! Weird! I close them at night (don't want my chicks or parakeets to get cold), but in the day time, it's wonderful not to have a squirrelly house!! And pix are politely demanded of the bald eagles please....
Going in tonight for another MRI on my back. See how bad it's degenerated from the herniated disc between the last vertebra & the tailbone (L5/S1). It blew out completely a few years ago (think of a jelly donut.. you bite into it & the jelly squirts out everywhere.. that's what happened to the disk.. the jelly inside went squirt-plooey off to the left & those two vertebra just rub against each other, which is causing the sciatica because the muscles are trying to keep everything in place, which causes them to cramp up & crush the sciatic nerve to get crushed against my pelvic bone.. boy oh boy the fun of getting old!!) but I'm refusing to get fusion. I've known too many people who got their vertebra fused & they're in a billion times worse shape afterwards than before! And I can't be down for months recoopering.. I've got things to do, roses to plant, etc! Been thinking about it and, instead of putting a maple on top of my beloved Conan, I'm going to keep up with the rest of that area & put in another lilac.. thinking of a President Lincoln or a President Grevy or a BIG Tinkerbell if I can find one (I have a teeny one but I want a 5gal plant). It'll be with my Charles Joly lilacs, so I need something that'll pop with that wine color. And I can't have a screwed up back if I'm planting big 5gal plants! Plus I do have a few roses coming in from Palatine in April.. not many, just 4 for me.
