All this talk about horses makes me want to tell you my tale of woe for the week. Glad I can look back on it and laugh, though.
Sunday, I went riding for the first time in weeks. (been working too much!) When I was riding more frequently, I bought a great pair of Ariat paddock boots. ---for you non-horsey people, this is one of the major boot makers and paddock boots come up above your ankle---- Anyway, these were the latest ones (got a really great deal and had gift certificates to use!) I think they are called Expeditions or something like that.....SUPER comfortable!! Well, they didn't even need a "break-in" period, they were so comfortable right away! Well, after not riding for a while, the skin on my heels was torn up at the end of the day. Ouch! Two already popped and fire engine red blisters on one heel, and one on the other. I haven't been able to wear shoes with backs all week! I have to walk my older son to kindergarten every day, about a 15 min walk each way (hello! that's an hour a day! LOL, not a job for my sandals, either) and I had to "modify" my sneakers to be able to walk by smooshing down the heel part. How lovely! What is usually a great way for me to get in my exercise became torture for the first couple of days. Phooey!
Made a lovely fashion statement at work, too. Luckily, I work at an animal hospital and we're supposed to wear sneakers, but my modified pair, along with the band-aids to cover the ugly boo-boos were laughable. So one day, I decided to use my kids "tattoo" band-aids. They really look like tattoos! So much so that some of my co-workers and our clients actually thought I got tattoos on the backs of my heels!!
PJ: I checked out your link to the stable pictures. Nice place you've got there....and nice equine friends, too!!
Hello to everyone else from a lurker.....LOL to SueBee on your "okay lurkers come on out....I can hear you breathing!!."
(not the hot and humid stuff can't stand that either)
I mix that with potting soil and sand.....depending on how much each plant needs and then I put a SLOW RELEASE fertilizer around the base of each one and water them well. Oh heck.....I'll just wait another 5 mis.....take the picture and post it on the picture trail page and stick the url on here for you to see. Maybe you can help me out. My Gardenia is my favorite and has grown to over 5 feet tall. My blue Plumbago is doing just fine as are the other "hardy" Florida plants but I have alot of "butterfly garden" plants that are definitely in shock and although I forget the name....there's this one Yellow flowered Plant that I also grew from a sappling and is now (if I hadn't trimmed it .....it would be over 6 ft. tall) about 4 feet high. They open in the daytime with the morning sun and close in the evening. Really beautiful. Anyway, let me take my pics and then maybe you'll have a chance to help me out. I'm so upset. I pulled all of the impatiens out and replanted those into smaller pots after cutting them down and they'll do fine on the back patio where they wont get burned. 
