Once in a blue moon I will leave the house and forget to put on deodorant. What's something that won't melt or lose efficacy if stored in a hot car over a year.
Im thinking a ziplock of baking soda (doesnt irritate my skin and works very well for me odor wise), and a roll on deodorant that's liquid worh that plastic rolling ball applicator.
Am so bummed. Have been planning this trip for ages and missed the good air by 4 days!!!! Have several out of town friends spending so much money to be here.
Any tips of where to go to avoid the smoke and keep our home base in Ashland?
I got this dress off of Amazon and it looked pink in the pictures. In real life it is white with flowers. It looks gorgeous on me and I would like to still wear it.
I have a bit of anxiety with this type of stuff. Fear of screwing it up based on my own choices. Could anyone give me exact directions and what brand/tint/amount/directions. I tend to overthing and doom research for hours without making decisions. Im okay with this dress being ruined as I can buy it again. I just need help just doing something.
Tag shows 95% polyester and 5% elastane.
I think I want it to be some sort of pink.
Missed them in stores this year! Would love to grab one or a few if anyone has extras!
I have two patio tomatoes and two Dwarf Beauty King tomatoes. First time growing Dwarf and patio style.
Am using these 10N nursery pots. Wondering if these are overkill and if I should use these pots for my Pink Burkley Tie Die or my Pineapple Tomato instead.
Also, with regular determinate and indeterminate I plant them deep. Do dwarves need that as well? Or would it slow them down?
My raised beds are confusing me. I have 2.
A)
Sungold tomatoes in 2025 a very non bushy plant, less quantity but same sized fruits.
2026 Wayward strawberry shoot landed in bed and is MASSIVE. Huge hand sized leaf sets when its parent has smaller than palm sized leaf sets.
Sorrel thriving.
Lemonbalm thriving.
Peas doing very well 2026.
B)
Sungold tomatoes in 2025 thick large and luscious with alot of fruit. (Maybe less though than in 2024)
Beets small and puny.
Soil hard to dig into (had worms but very dense)
Peas thriving 2026.
I add an inch of compost every year with earthworm castings and mix into the top few inches of soil.
Both beds have worms in every dense shovel scoop.
For 2026 tomatoes in these beds, will adding 4 inches of steer manure compost (or 4 way raised bed soil maybe?) be enough if I add the compost, till very well into top 4 inches beneath that, then use a garden fork to make cracks in the very deep soil below that? I have a load of both the four way (which includes steering manure), and just pure aged steer manure compost in my driveway.
My beets after 74 days. Should I wait? Or mulch into ground and plant warm weather crops.
Due to a pretty big injury, I didn't really water and sometimes did some hydrolyzed fish. Raised bed dirt might have also been too compact (hard to dig in with hands).
I wanted to get some thoughts to research when deciding how to go about healing from my potential lumbar herniated disk that was caused by pushing myself too hard for 3 days dehydrated gardening, and one wrong move with a shovel. Is there anything I should look into?
I had my initial injury and then a painful retrigger 4 days later, and another painful retrigger 6 days after that. I am now very aware that forward bending is my trigger, and I am trying to avoid at all costs.
Day to day.. my pain is very manageable. I take advil, but only because I hear it's a good anti-inflammatory. I get sharp jarring pain with any minor movevent for the first 24 hours after initial injury and after retriggers. I would definitely take pain medication if I had a life that required movement (I work remotely and have no kids). But I can avoid laundry for weeks and not cook for weeks. Within the first 24 hours, though, sometimes I can not even stand upright without 8-9 level pain and get stuck on the toilet because it is too painful to get up. Outside of those 24 hours, cars and getting up in the morning are currently the worst. Also meeting friends at restaurants or working for more than 30 minutes at a computer.
Yesterday, I woke up with tingling in my upper back. An hour later, the bottoms of my feet. It then moved to being very obvious on my pinky toes and over my knee. I went into the ER. By the time they saw me, I felt numbness in my right quad as well.
BUT, (this seemed like an important distinction to them) all the numbness was how appendages felt to themselves? There was no tingling, just the feeling that they were asleep while I could still walk normally and could still feel touch to those areas. I took a walk outside while I waited for my results. Essentially, they thought I overreacted by coming in as I wasn't aware of the type of numbing that would be concerning. They checked if i could feel their hands on my toes, bottoms of my feet, inner thigh. And asked if I had soiled myself without feeling it (due to numb groin area). The CAT scan technician was kind and helped me get on and off the machine without me asking as the getting down and twisting to adjust a s getting up is painful but was ribbing me a little that it was my first time dealing with back pain. Since I came in while I could still walk.
They gave me a CAT and refused an MRI, but told me the CAT wouldn't show herniated disk or anything like that (so since I wasnt in a car accident or anything Im confused why the CAT was done besides being ER protocol? I kinda feel now like I should have refused the CAT scan.
They also told me they can prescribe a steroid for X days (six pills to start and less every day) and that they can prescribe me a muscle relaxer. I am 100% for medication that will actually improve healing, but it seems that muscle relaxers and steroids are just for pain? Not for healing herniated disk and associated nerve damage? Or do they let inflammation, which does help the nerve not get rubbed and pinched as much? I only have pain when I do painful things, so I don't want to mask any pain that is helping me not do harmful moves for my disk. I also have a flexible enough life that not taking pain meds will not cause me any issues at work or home. I would 100% take them if I couldn't avoid pain. Today, I squeezed past my neice and, while turning my pain shot up to a 7-8, but it didn't cause the 24-hour immobility. As long as I'm not turning or leaning, I feel okay.
My plan right now is 4 small walks a day. Slow and steady just as long as I feel okay. Doing the PT exercises daily. Meeting up with my personal trainer 3.5 weeks after initial injury to start working on rebuilding my strength while staying very aware of the herniation (she is very good and has alot of experience modifying for various medical issues). I'm trying to avoid retriggering. Aim for a more anti-inflammatory diet than I am eating now and supplementing with hydrolyzed collagen, Vitamin C, turmeric, vitamin D, fish oil.