You two are so funny!
Warning: Rant and rambling ahead!
Well, I sprained my ankle carrying one of the black greenhouse tables out of the greenhouse yesterday afternoon. We still haven't totally filled the cracks/spaces between the irregular slates we put back down for the walkway (had to be extended all the way around this larger greenhouse) Of course my foot hits one of those cracks, and I do a "comedy sketch" for about 10 feet or so, almost falling while trying to stay upright while I'm still holding on to the 36" x 24" x 18" greenhouse table, hoping I don't land on top of it! I can be such a klutz!
Felt something "stretch" in my ankle when I hit the crack. Hurt like H E -double hockey sticks as Rose Nylund used to say on The Golden Girls, for about 5 minutes and then felt fine. Didn't hurt at all last night. I got up this morning, and I have been walking like Quasimodo all day. Took off the sock to shower this afternoon and all around the ankle bone is swollen. After I write this, I am going to put ice on it (should have done that last night!) and TRY to take it easy.
Today was very busy and frustrating day.
Besides the ankle, I had to make two deliveries. Not easy pulling/pushing a hand truck with this ankle.
The gas station wouldn't honor my gas points;
TSC would not give me a refund for the butterfly bush I bought a few weeks ago with nothing in the package but peat moss; no butterfly bush - because I didn't have the receipt, despite the fact that they had a record of my purchase in their system when I asked them to check. I decided to buy another anyway, and all 4 of the ones they had left contained no plants either. (Wonder if they were left over from last year and disintegrated in the peat moss/plastic bag/box?) When I pointed this out to the manager, and said "proves my point", she still wouldn't give me a refund. I should have dumped the bag of chicken feed and the bag of bird seed at her feet and walked out! I wrote to corporate when I got home with the store ID and her name. It was only $7.51; but it was the treatment I received and principle!
When I got home, the Phat Tommy outdoor table I bought to match our 4 high Adirondack chairs arrived. If you don't know Phat Tommy, they are an outdoor furniture company, and their products are indestructible. Made of dyed resin (many colors), they don't fade and can be left in the elements all year. Our original 2 chairs look as good as the day we bought them 2 years ago, and they have spent every day of 2 years sitting on our back deck which faces south and on which the snow/ice comes crashing down onto in the winter. (
https://phattommy.com/)
When I unpacked everything, the top of the resin table (35.5" in diameter) had a small (1/4") gash on the top near the very center. I wrote to Phat Tommy with picture telling them I want a new top, or I will keep this one if they refund me $100 (Table was $499.95). I figured it would cost them at least that much to pick up this one (oversized box and heavy as all get out) and deliver a new one. I can probably fill the little gash with some green epoxy.
Finally, when I thought I was going to go off the deep end, I limped into the greenhouse (my therapy place), watered, up potted some zinnias I want to keep inside the GH, planted 2 of the cantaloupes in a large pot under the second trellis, and made this. It calmed me down!
Other than that, all was a good day!
