[Augie]

We went from bikini weather to low 20°s back to bikini weather inside of a week here in Central Missouri. Losing two weeks to the flu caused me to miss my window for pruning orchard trees. Oh well.

I was able to finish smoothing out the old garden site and threw down some grass seed. I need to spread some straw on top and give it a good watering. Spent most of the weekend on the tractor moving/smoothing dirt in the yard. With the garden torn up it's giving me the opportunity to work on some other projects that have gone begging for too long.

I probably should have been building fence instead of moving dirt but my back is out right now and it said NO BOY YOU ARE NOT DOING THAT TODAY. It's been a problem for quite awhile and the miles are starting to show. I'm having an MRI done later today. Hopefully that will provide some guidance for what needs to be done to fix it.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Sorry you’re hurting, Augie. My back goes out once in a while - for no reason, it seems. Frustrating!

Why did you move the garden? I must’ve missed that part...

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

I hope you feel better! No fun trying to live with back pain.

Muscles will seize up, splint, to try and keep damaged muscles from moving. Magnesium and a pain reliever might
might help to relax them.