Oh, sorry you are both so sore! Sylvia is a hardworking woman that apparently cannot resist orphaned plants :-)

& we both harvested some chiggers, too!

but as somebody famously sang (Elton John?) "I'm Still Standin'!"

sort of bent over, but standin' lol!

That missouribound girl has a way with plants;

she was discarding more from that circular bed than I have in my whole garden!

so one of today's goals is to pick up some soil & get these babies into temporary quarters.

except the liriope; that goes to my friend Nick, who's a lovely person whose talents are more artistic in the indoor sense (paintings, etc).

His outdoor talents are such that our goals for his place are Knockout Roses, monkey grass, & Kwanzo daylilies!

Hmmm, I have some ditch lilies we didn't get to.

Heating pad helps some. I'm dealing with the back and one hip, Uncle Arthr settling in pretty bad. GI doc doesn't want me to use NSAIDS much, but I take them once in a while...then Tylenol, which isn't exactly free of problems either. I also take Curamin, which usually helps...no side effects on it.

Bob picked up something at the gym that he thought might help me in recovering from working those muscles hard; L-Glutamine 1000 mg, 2 capsules before working out and two after. I usually forget to take it beforehand, but the 2 taken after do seem to help prevent soreness and keep me from being so tired.. It's an amino acid and is available at health food stores.

Also since ibuprofen upsets the stomach I cut the ends off two ibuprofen gel caps, squeeze the contents onto the palm of my hand, add a few drops of water and rub it into my forearms where it can be absorbed. That helps a lot.