Oh no! I hope you won't be feeling that fall tomorrow. I guess that you'll be restringing some beans tomorrow.

At least I hope that you got enough rain to do some good, joyful.

The rain was very welcome overnight! We haven't had rain at all since early June. 6 ml when 80-90 is the norm.

Hope you're going to be okay, as you beans OJ. I promise I won't call the cops on you ever again. ((((OJ)))))

I don't know, OJ, but what it shudda' been nice to have a pretty cop venturing into your garden. Good to know that you "Can" be found should you be reclining under those beans. Stay SAFE. Old(er) bones just break.

That sounds like something that I would do! I too hope that you don't suffer any after effects of the tumble. If that's a structural part of your ladder, maybe it's time for a new one?

Take care and be well.

Well, I missed your homecoming, and now you have us worried again! Hope you don't have aches and pains tomorrow from your fall. Maybe we should prod your son to come out and help string up the beans? Welcome back!

I'm happy that you've posted about your latest "adventure" since you hadn't posted for so long and we were all worried about you. I'm sorry it was a difficult adventure.

Oh, OJ, so much hard work only for it to be for naught! I'm so sorry you were feeling down today. It's so much NOT like you. Tomorrow is another day. Feel better. I, too, hope you suffer no aches and pains from the tumble.

I'm so glad you don't feel hurt - and I hope not sore or stiff anywhere tomorrow. DH is a total safety nut when it comes to ladders, he'd be scolding you like he does me, even when I'm on my lightweight 6 footer deadheading rhododendrons.

In any other case, soft ground in a garden would be a good thing.

I'm sorry about your vines, I hope you don't have too much of a mess in the morning to deal with.

Oh beans! Glad you are okay Ed. Did you know bean runners will not twist around a curly hazel branch, every time I wrapped the runners on the branch the runners unwound themselves and chose the railing instead. Love green and yellow beans. Going for a drive in the county next week to get some.

Ack! How aggravating!

Um...maybe these are not 'string beans'... (Couldn't resist.)

Ole Joyful, please be careful and cautious. I am 91 and still get qualms when I stand on just a two-step ladder. I can just picture you on the ladder in the garden! Hope you've no aches/bruises today.

You're a tough old bird, OJ. I'm really sorry you've had a time stringing up the vine poles. Can landlord help you? (Or is he away? I think I might remember reading something about that.) Would you let me send you some bush bean seeds next year? I'd be happy to do so, if you have the room for them. I tried pole beans once and found them a pain, so I've planted bush beans since then--30 years now!

You sound 'done-in' and I hope you're feeling alright. That's a heckofa lot of work for anyone, let alone a body your age. I can't fathom doing all that outdoor work, though I do have back problems. I hope you give yourself a day of rest and relaxation today. And thanks so much for posting. We looooooove hearing from you, even when you're not so joyful!

Sorry you took a tumble and messed up your hard work. I'm glad you're not hurt. There has to be a safer way of doing what you're doing.

Good thing bean plants are bendy, and sounds like you are too!! :) Here's to no sore muscles tomorrow.

Couple of tiny scrapes ... and when I took off the squeezy socks ... one pulled off a small scab, so the residue washed out ... and I installed a Band-aid, rather unusual for me.

Next time ... I put a plank under the low side (and the ground was drier).

All going well now, pretty well all re-strung.

Repaired the mailbox this morning, while the landlord was busy in the shop, so it was open.

ole joyfuelled ... with a bit o' fuelling help from a bean, on occasion

What do you do with all your veggies? Freeze? Can? Give away?

Some to son and his companion, some to landlord, some to me, some to a couple of churches that I attend, with request that folks add a little more to the offering, and some to social agencies.

For the last couple of years, late spring, shortage of rain, or too much, maybe some old seed, really disappointing as many didn't come up, and some only a few e.g. about three cabbages in a sowed row about 50' long.

Next to no damage in the fall with the stepladder: I was only on the second step, after all ... and the ground was soft. Would find it hard to replace it, though, as it, along with a number of other things, came from the ex-'s house following her death, twelve years ago.

The landlord rented land next to the garden to a neighbor, who has early-harvest beans, as he wants to sow that field to sod, this fall, so wants the crop off early.

The plants have some vines, and a profusion of flowers, and the bush beans, green and yellow, in my garden came out in blossom a few days ago, so I called the landlord's wife to tell her that we'd soon have beans ...

... but cautioned her about telling the neighbours about it, for the first story would be that soon K. (she) and C. (landlord) would have beans ... but as it got retold, it'd be that "soon K. and C. would be "has-beens".

She laughed.

ole joyful ... who's in air conditioned library (with solar panels covering the roof over the YMCA/YWCA wellness centre, the library and two hockey rinks, currently in use) through the heat of the afternoon, rather than the garden, in these almost record hot days

Stay cool, OJ!

I LOVE to get updates on what's going on in your life. You are an inspiration to me, Ed!

Have had some bush beans, green ones, but quite a few of the yellow ones didn't come up, and the landlord prefers them. They're coming into flower and the vine ones are, as well.

Several years ago son's partner gave me a pack of purple beans, and I think that I'd had those seeds before that. Some find them more tasty and tender than the usual beans. The two guys who had their electric bikes charged here a couple of weeks ago tried them, eaten raw right from the vine, and liked them a lot.

I'd like to have had more of those seeds to plant, but ran out of them and didn't find any more.

Even though it's late, I think that I'll plant some more of the yellow beans, as I have only about 20 some plants, and they won't produce over a long period.

ole joyful

A week or so ago when I put on one of my favourite dress pants for an excursion ...

... the zipper pull wouldn't go where it was supposed to.

I tried telling it where to go ... without success.

I checked the zipper ... there didn't seem to be anything wrong.

A few days later, I had a good look at the zipper, and found that one of the little thingies that join up with a couple of other thingies on the other side, and stick together well ...

... was slightly bent.

I gave it a firm but gentle shove with my thumbnail.

Now the zipper is working fine again.

My fridge tends to freeze in one area, and I've stored milk cartons of water there, rotating them before they freeze heavily. Today at noon I'd put some ice cubes from the freezer into my insulated mug that was partly filled with some cooled water. As I poured the deeply chilled water from the carton which had some ice in it over an ice cube in the mug, it began freezing as it hit the cube and built up a little pile of ice about a half inch high.

I don't remember ever having an experience like that before ... and brought the mug with me to the library

There's a large number of solar panels on top of this wellness centre, that includes a couple of hockey rinks as well as the library ... and the air conditioning is a treat.

ole joyfulHope you're all having a great day.

Always great hearing from you OJ! I wonder if bea n s would have time to do anything this late in the season? This year i have practically no garden.i just did not feel well in the spring. Hope you enjoyed the cool library today. I've had carbonated drinks freeze up like that but never water.