~ Depressed and scared, not making it financially ~

@jimhd, I'm laughing because like you, I am a better starter than finisher for some projects. Amazing how I can just "not see" paperwork waiting action, dust bunnies growing sometimes by leaps and bounds! I don't blame mine on depression however. Told my daughter several years ago that I seemed to be becoming flakier because I was stopping before finishing some projects. Out of the mouth of this beauty came: "Mom, you've Always been a bit flaky." Did she Really have to share that truth??? I'm the only mom she has!!! smiles

Understand your soreness and hurting from the heavy duty digging, lifting and transporting of those thick and sometimes buried rocks. Same happened for me when i carted bucket loads of free river rocks to fill in a small flowerbed section in front next to neighbor. The really fantastic news is that the completed effort will be worth all your time and effort! No bermuda grass encroaching because I dug out the bed deeply and lined it with heavy duty plastic...no idea how deep the rock fill turned out to be but it took daily treks for weeks one summer to retrieve, wash and "build" the bed. Sharp shears prevent encroachement of grass/weeds and hilariously one lone iris sprouted in one tiny corner of the bed!!

I emptied a 40 gallon Rubbermaid container on wheels of maybe 3yrs? worth of moldering leaves. Managed to tip it over and rake out the fabulous leaf mold sitting on the ground but there was residual soggyness (?) lower down which resulted in a very muddy splotched gal. That was ok because I still had to fine spray mist some waiting-to-emerge seedlings and so misted self too which got some mud and made the effort cooler.

You'll be amazed and delighted...as probably will you wife, grins...at your masterful path completion!!! Your fans of both rocks and puzzles, we'll be eagerly waiting and hoping for a photo of your latest masterpiece! Just a thought to consider: one day hard; next day easy??? Sometimes that works.

@lioness One of the best things about where we live is no Bermuda Grass!! Another is no possums or nutria.

@jimhd That's good we had a lot about all 3 acres had Bermuda grass Kept Howard busy on tractor mowing What is nutria ,not familiar with that

@lioness One of the best things about where we live is no Bermuda Grass!! Another is no possums or nutria.

@lioness I won't be having any surgeries until the end of September. At least, none that require recovery time. When I met with the neurospecialist last week, we didn't get around to the subject of DRG. She had ordered an MRI of my lower back and Covid19 had put a hold on my appointment with her for 3 months. She saw on the scan that I have bad stenosis in my lumbar spine which could be causing some of my pain, though it's not possible to know exactly how much is neuropathy and how much is spinal stenosis. And the only way to find out is to correct the mess in my back. If I still have this much pain, then we have the neuropathy discussion.

You can probably guess why I won't have surgery until September. I'll give you a hint. It's my decision to wait until the end of September.

Unfortunately, waiting means living in a lot of pain longer than absolutely necessary.

Jim

Nutria are large rodents, the size of a cat. Someone brought them to Oregon, with the plan of selling their fur. When it didn't catch on, they just released them, and being good rodents, they multiplied, and now they're a real nuisance. I'm not positive that they're rodents. Maybe in the beaver family?

Jim

@lioness I won't be having any surgeries until the end of September. At least, none that require recovery time. When I met with the neurospecialist last week, we didn't get around to the subject of DRG. She had ordered an MRI of my lower back and Covid19 had put a hold on my appointment with her for 3 months. She saw on the scan that I have bad stenosis in my lumbar spine which could be causing some of my pain, though it's not possible to know exactly how much is neuropathy and how much is spinal stenosis. And the only way to find out is to correct the mess in my back. If I still have this much pain, then we have the neuropathy discussion.

You can probably guess why I won't have surgery until September. I'll give you a hint. It's my decision to wait until the end of September.

Unfortunately, waiting means living in a lot of pain longer than absolutely necessary.

Jim

Nutria are large rodents, the size of a cat. Someone brought them to Oregon, with the plan of selling their fur. When it didn't catch on, they just released them, and being good rodents, they multiplied, and now they're a real nuisance. I'm not positive that they're rodents. Maybe in the beaver family?

Jim