And Jane dislocated her little toe. She is in serious pain. Has it wrapped, which is about all you can do: little toe joints are one of those evolutionary things that just are not the best engineeering job—more of a shallow cup than a real joint, and supported by not-very-much.
So—here we are, again in mid-remodel, with the pond backing up, and all sorts of things needing doing…
by CJ | Apr 25, 2018 | Journal | 14 comments
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Sorry to here that, working with horses I know first hand how painful injury to the little piggies can be (especially as furniture is unerringly attracted to said toe).
My mother stubbed a toe against the kitchen stepstool once, and it took a few days for her to realize it wasn’t just stubbed – it was actually broken. Doctor said there’s not much they can do for broken toes, short of taping them (and it’s not all that helpful).
Bummer! Not a lot you can do besides RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation) and buddy taping (except tape 3 toes together rather than 2). With the pond backing up, get that gardening guy you hired to help.
Confused — What are you in mid-remodel on, the kitchen still?
The kitchen. Due to winter, we weren’t able to use a tile saw (water) or get the roof vent installed, so we were stalled. We started in September. But the tile work starts tomorrow. And we now have a roof vent.
The garden guy didn’t want to tackle that stand of equisetum (horsetail grass), which is blocking the outflow of one filter box and flooding our walkway to the garage, while slowly draining the pond. I’m going to take a mattock to it. It’s a pestilence.
It’s also an obscure dyestuff; pre-mordant with alum post with ammonia and you’ve got spring green. Offer your local craft guild all they want to pick! It takes about a pound of dyestuff to dye a pound of wool. It takes about three pounds of wool to knit a sweater. Horsetail can be dryed for later use.
In defense of Scott, there was Christmas, then he caught the flu, then the truck got totaled due to ice, and now we’re back—he’s revised the way the outlets are distributed to the breaker box, installed a new ceiling fan in the living room, plus more outlets, and redone the basement stairs, including carpet, so he’s worked in more than just the kitchen. We just don’t CALL it a house remodel. After this, he’s going to help us with the basement, which has been a disaster zone.
You and Miss Jane seem to be a force to be reckoned with.
Man, I wish I was as handy as you ladies are. But ee-yow, I’m so sorry for Jane’s toe. I hope she got the dislocation back in place and has it taped and cushioned. I’d recommend either slip-on sneakers or the thick fleece-lined house shoes for that. Being up north, I’d imagine you both are fond of those fleece slippers. It’s been several years now since I dropped a heavy jar from the pantry on a bare foot. I was very, very lucky the glass didn’t break, but boy, did it do a number on one or two toes of that foot. At the time, I had no insurance. The doc said well, tape them, immobilize them, keep them in shoes. (This, rather than the x-rays, etc., he would’ve recommended if I’d had insurance.) My toes were not happy for a while, but did OK, and since then, if I stub my toes, or occasionally with other things, I get a reminder, but they seem to have healed OK. When I get to the very senior citizen stage, that foot and my weird left knee will probably tell me about it regularly, but at 52 now, I’m still OK, even in winter.
Jane, please take care of yourself. I like you both a lot, even though I’ve never gotten to meet you in person yet. :hugs:
Re the horsetails and dyestuffs — Huh, that’s really something. You learn all sorts of cool stuff here — Aren’t horsetails one of the earlier plants from within the dinosaur reign, or early prehistoric birds and mammals, post-dinosaurs? — Great idea to offer them to the local crafts guild / community, if those folks would like to dig them out themselves, it could save you some work and make friends too.
Horse tail contains a lot of silica, make pretty good old fashion pot scrubbers as well.
Owie! I’ve also done bad things to toes, so all sympathy to the Jane. Both pinky toes have lost toenails, and the left one turned a remarkable shade of teal when I stubbed it on a chair (yes, it was broken, and the treatment is still pretty rudimentary). Please do not get sick on top of all things; one of our friends was feeling punk over the weekend, and it turned out he had developed pneumonia. DO NOT WANT
I just discovered the most stsho-sounding name I think I’ve ever seen outside of the Chanur Saga books. The random name generator on BehindTheName.com, set for male names, gave:
SHRESTH
Which is claims means, “excellent, best” in Hindi.
I thought I would pass this along for your whiter-shade-of-pale edification and amusement.
I am in the middle of Legacy just now. I think that name has an unreasonable number of consonants for one vowel. But judging that is perhaps not one of my strengths.
STRENGTHS is the worst English word I know in this respect. Woolloomooloo (Sydney inner suburb) errs in the opposite direction.
Tripped over an extension cord, landed hard; ended up with a minor wrist fracture, basically just cracks in the socket around where the hand meets the arm bones. Got a nice brace in lieu of a cast. In unrelated news, my BP has been discovered to be thru the roof, got a ‘scrip for that.