You have my heartfelt sympathy!! I shattered my knee a year ago in November - total misery having to stay off it. Now.....I need the pins out and keep putting off surgery...I too will need to stay on couch for a couple of weeks - big incision on kneecap so cant bend. I suggest you get your pots ready with soil in them to plant - 10 shoulnt take that much time. I have lost count of the ones I have coming....Can you have the roses shipped earlier? You can get everything on the deck, get a chair by the water spigot and water from there. I couldnt stand it and hopped around on crutches and planted 4 roses that came in 2 weeks after surgery. Just organize everything and it may not be as bad as you anticipate. Pile up lots of gardening magazines and books to read! Good luck..... Judith

Sorry to read about your surgery, but health will be much better for you due to it lateron. I am lucky so far in respect to no surgery, but I called and wrote and went out to lunch with 3 friends who had surgery in the past months, including my brother with major surgery. And all are doing well, it helped them a lot. It is amazing what surgents can do nowadays. In a few weeks you will be able to take care of your fully leafed out hostas again! Bernd

Coming along nicely! The hanging baskets do well at our Farmer's Market. If you don't mind me asking, are yours Tumbling Tom, or a different variety? Also, how many do you put in each basket, and how wide is the basket? I just transplanted my Tumbling Toms...they're starting to bloom and looking good. :-) Caroline

Thanks guys! Ya....this is a pain in the foot for sure! Got fitted/molded (stepping into a firm-foam material shoebox) last Monday. Hopefully, they'll get them in end of this week?! Mdln- I've looked at that site before. It's very good, professional, & informative. Lol Oly! Yes....I'm finding that out! ;-) Right shoulder rehab going fine however! Found out at the 3-month visit with my surgeon last Wed, that they'll probably broaden the criteria for using the stem-cell Rotator-cuff treatment! They'll know in Sept how well the first group (with the smaller tears) are doing. If those are healing well, they're gonna try it on larger partial tears, like my Left shoulder. Sooooooo....if things work right, it might be a busy Fall! Ideally, I'd like the right foot surgically corrected b4 winter.....and.....the Stem-cells doin' their thing in my left shoulder! UFFDA! Faron