Freeholder
This too shall pass.
I think we've talked about this here before, but need to revisit the issue. I may be using a walker at least part of the time, depending on what happens with my back -- my left leg is partially numb and keeps trying to go out from under me. I don't know if it can be fixed or not, or, if so, when. (I turn 65 in April, so hopefully anything that needs to be done can wait that long.) In the meantime, in addition to the house and my handicapped daughter, I've got animals to take care of. And soon it will be time to start the garden. We should have some help here in a few weeks, when my brother and his wife move here, though they are also both disabled. So I'm looking for tips to make life easier and more functional. Things like, best way to carry water and feed when you are using a walker? Things like that. I may have to build raised beds for the garden, which I was not planning on doing. But I do have one of those 4-wheeled garden seats that you can scoot down the rows in.
We have just a handful of chickens right now, so they aren't too hard to take care of. But I had already ordered 25 chicks to come in early March. And I am really wanting to get the rabbit cages set up and get some meat rabbit breeding stock. I have the parts for an automatic watering system (which won't work in the winter). I feed the barn cats on the porch (and they get their water from the pond); the outside dog gets fed right outside the front door. So those guys are pretty easy. About half of our place is mostly fairly level, and there's not much need for me to go on the steep part right now.
I do need to have someone build stoops at both doors to the house. As it is right now, we have to open the doors (swinging out) while standing on or at the bottom of steps, often with hands full. It's very awkward. And I may get someone to help move my bed downstairs, if I can make room for it in the dining room (the space under the dining table is full of heavy boxes of vinyl plank flooring -- not sure where to put those, sigh). Going up and down the stairs feels a bit awkward with this numb leg.
Anyway, open for tips and advice.
Thanks!
Kathleen
We have just a handful of chickens right now, so they aren't too hard to take care of. But I had already ordered 25 chicks to come in early March. And I am really wanting to get the rabbit cages set up and get some meat rabbit breeding stock. I have the parts for an automatic watering system (which won't work in the winter). I feed the barn cats on the porch (and they get their water from the pond); the outside dog gets fed right outside the front door. So those guys are pretty easy. About half of our place is mostly fairly level, and there's not much need for me to go on the steep part right now.
I do need to have someone build stoops at both doors to the house. As it is right now, we have to open the doors (swinging out) while standing on or at the bottom of steps, often with hands full. It's very awkward. And I may get someone to help move my bed downstairs, if I can make room for it in the dining room (the space under the dining table is full of heavy boxes of vinyl plank flooring -- not sure where to put those, sigh). Going up and down the stairs feels a bit awkward with this numb leg.
Anyway, open for tips and advice.
Thanks!
Kathleen