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Non-News Expose: Locating Muscles You Didn't Think You Had

May 14, 2007 10:44 AM EDT (Updated: May 14, 2007 10:45 AM EDT)
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Dateline: Royal Oak, Michigan

Nice weather this weekend brought this non-correspondent outside to complete much needed spring yardwork. Recent weeks of heavy April showers led to waist high weeds in some parts of the vegetable bed.

Two days of hard labor cured that eyesore. My terrace is now ready to accept beefsteak and roma tomatoes, along with the complimentary beans, zucchini, hot peppers and cucumbers. The upper level grapes and strawberries are choke free and enjoying some fertilizer. I was feeling pretty pleased with myself after the assault.

However... after a deep and restful sleep, this non-correspondent is finding out she had muscles she didn't know about.

If you, dear readers, would like to find muscles like these of your own, please feel free to drop by my garden for a weeding party. I guarantee you will locate those muscles by the next day.

Um, Mike... please pass the BenGay.

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Comments: 20

Deb J. May 14, 2007, 10:46am EDT
Oh yes, that's always part of the surprise!! But it's always worth it in the long run!! It's raining off and on here today. I need to get some plants set out myself!
Nic P. May 14, 2007, 10:51am EDT
I haven't a single desire in me to plant things.

Perhaps if I ever have my own home and space to do it. I don't know the first thing about growing anything except chillin's

(note the apostrophe)

I admire you, I'm quite sure your little sprouts do as well.
Larry H. May 14, 2007, 11:00am EDT
I know all about those muscles have found and refound many or the through the years..
Nancy S. May 14, 2007, 11:10am EDT
Now wouldn't a weeding party be fun? Saturday afternoon, and Joanne's house. I'll bring the beer,
Susan M. May 14, 2007, 11:17am EDT
When your threw with Joanne's weeds, yew can come help me.

(Sorry, Joanne, the devil made me do it!!)
♯ ♪ May 14, 2007, 11:19am EDT
I agree with Nancy. Yesterday, I made lemonade with real lemons, then threw some vodka in there for good measure. Yum yum...
Cindy D. May 14, 2007, 11:47am EDT
Yes, I always feel it between my shoulder blades when I weed for the first time.
J. C. May 14, 2007, 1:52pm EDT
You have my sympathy. Three or four times a week I stumble through the house mumbling, "I had to have land."
Kris M. May 14, 2007, 1:55pm EDT
This is why I drive around the neighborhood admiring everybody else's gardens. All the beauty, all of the appreciation, none of the actual work. Of course, I usually see them while I'm running, but it's a different set of muscles.
♯ ♪ May 14, 2007, 2:32pm EDT
I can point out some muscles you don't know about, Kris. Most of which I can't reach.
My right shoulder and the back of my neck. Damn!

Maybe we should get together and drink and rub BenGay on each other.

Wait. I didn't say that. Don't tell mike that. He'll never leave this thread alone.
♯ ♪ May 14, 2007, 5:53pm EDT
I'll go for the drink and separate lounge chairs. Maybe you can get a pool boy to rub BenGay on us, Ina.
Nancy S. May 14, 2007, 6:44pm EDT
I like the pool boy idea better than the reciprocal thing. I also like the lomonade thing...
Nancy S. May 14, 2007, 8:40pm EDT
(I meant "lemonade".)
Lisa D. May 15, 2007, 1:11am EDT
There is another way to find this, Joanne. What you do is grout the newly tiled floor of a 1/2 bathroom that is only 6 ft x 4 ft.
Kris M. May 15, 2007, 1:21am EDT
I did situps today for the first time in what felt like 20 years. Rest assured those are some muscles that'll be on strike in the morning!
Kathleen ♥ L. May 15, 2007, 1:22am EDT
Ouch! Knew there was a reason I don't garden, don't aspire to garden and don't offer to help others with their gardens! That and my black thumb able to kill the heartiest of plants with just one week!
Susan S. May 16, 2007, 9:09am EDT
That's why I now live in a condo association development.

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