mission accomplished

Turns out that if you swallow a couple of aleve with a non-narcotic muscle relaxant (I know, what fun is that?) but anyway, if you do that in the evening and again in the morning, you can miraculously heal your back, and even more miraculously, plant all of the perennials you received for Mothers' Day gifts, even clearing out most of the weeds in the beds and the pine cones that have dropped from the neighbors' trees and trimming back the spent daffodils and tulips.

I'd post pictures if I'd finished planting before dark. Maybe tomorrow.