I’ve been

I've been outside planning pulling plotting stacking soaking seeds peat pots and pellets This is a grow from seed year last year I bought plants on sale at the end of season scratch and dent discontinued and clearance sections at local greenhouses Growing plants by seed is an acquired taste You will get used to…

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Exhausted

I write with one arm underneath the keyboard, too lazy to get a hot water bottle for my sore wrist. The heat penetrates to the aching bones it feels good to rest without a toddler a teen toddler and a brooding young man. Life being what it is becomes a hassle not worth discussing. I…

Everyday Inspiration, Day Five: Hook ‘Em With a Quote

“However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden   One of Girlie's first favorite videos was The Secret Garden. She would watch the robin and say "burrd eek-eek-ekk." I had forgotten about The Secret…

Everyday Inspiration, Day Two: Write a List

Things I Like Flowers: Rudbeckia, Coneflower, Monardia, Sunflowers (brown and yellow), Hostas, Morning Glories, Chrysanthemum, Gerber Daisy, Poppies, Calendula, Butterfly Bush, Balsam, Mullein, Goldenrod, Four O'clocks, Periwinkle, Balloon Flower, Thistle, Bachelor's Buttons, Columbine, Daylily, Goldenrod, Hen and Chicks, Hollyhock, Iris, Sedum, Lamb's Ear, Phlox, Trillium, Yarrow, Yucca, Buttercup, Amaranth, Cosmos, Marigold, Dusty Miller, Mexican Sunflower,…

Clean the yard/Save the Greenhouse (It’s White)

I wrote this Sunday edited it Monday between naps. Yesterday was a forced march clean up the yard afternoon that I imposed on my men/boys How long does it take to complete a chore really? Two piles of leaves have been sitting in my driveway for over a month and I want them gone today.…

I just heard the flapping

Not of a bird, that would be a bat at this hour but the sound of my greenhouse blowing with these gale force winds off the lake. Shit!

Time to get up, stop being a slug

This pain fire traveling down my spine is driving me out of bed I have my happy light on and I see that the curtains have a light behind them as well I have made it through the insomnia and have to go stand in the true light outside. No, I don't mean Close Encounters…

Is a weed a flower?

The purple asters I picked from my old studio are wildflowers (weeds that get cut down) every year by the fanatic mowers that like acres of grass Not every field should look like a golf course. Without the weeds there would be no place for the bees to harvest unfertilized necter, is it an oxymoron…

Dig out the mint roots, but I saw poppies

One slice into the soil with the old shovel impact with a rock, a piece of pottery a brick stops me as I realize I may not be completely fit yet for this feat, but I need to dig out the mint roots. How can I explain to someone who doesn't see the complexity of…