A Story
Body Breakdown
Sitting on the couch at 2 am, Penny tried to remember how to activate her leg muscles to stand up. Her sore wrists, hands, shoulders, hips and back had kept her awake and she wanted to get up and pace the floor to ease the stiffness and pain. Marshalling her brain, she gritted her teeth, pushed on the arm of the couch and staggered to her feet. She shuffled forward, walking slowly up and down the length of the living room.
The suddenness of her new incapacity had been startling. Almost overnight she had gone from being strong and active to being stiff, sore and weak. Polymyalgia rheumatica, the doctor diagnosed.
Thankfully, medication brought the storm under control. Hope and relief came flooding back.
For my zone 4 garden, I need to start my onions in February. In my region in Ontario, it's important to buy long day onion seeds. I have an inexpensive grow light that I can put the seedlings under to help them get through the dull winter days. Even still, they are floppy. It won't matter though and once in the garden they will straighten up. They will be planted outside in early May. By the end of July, they will be ready to harvest. Last year I planted some yellow onions and some red onions. Both varieties kept well and I still have one red onion left that's in good shape. I just stored them in paper bags in the dark at cool room temperature. I have about forty seedlings in these pots and that will do me until this time next year.
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