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Garden 2, Val Hughes 0

We're hardly into the gardening season in the Inland Northwest -- when already Facebook Friend Val Hughes is on the disabled list. Seems she was gardening today when she tripped backward over something and fell on her back side. In trying to catch herself, Val twisted her left hand (fortunately, she says). To add insult to injury, she was working at a time when there was "a little rain, a little sleet, and several waves of that weird snow/hail combo that looks like styrofoam pellets -- totally stuck in my hair! It's *very* wet on the ground, especially the leaves on top of the grass. Very muddy, I think that might be what I slipped on." After Val's FBF Kim Campbell reminded her of a similar fall on a wire last year, Val responded: "I'd been looking at that damned wire just before the fall happened, too -- I was saying to myself, 'You won't get me this year.'" Val worked on for an hour. Then she went home to treat her sorrows with a Hungry Man burrito and a bag of ice. She concludes: "Whoopee!"

Question: Do you have any war stories from your time in the garden?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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