I can tell you after a couple days of being out in the garden that I am singing a new tune. It goes something like this: Oh! Ouch! Ugggh...why did I buy a house with stairs? Ouch...ouch...ouch...ouch...ouch...ouch. Cheyenne, could you please pick that up for me.? Ouch! Oh yikes. Cheyenne, could you please bring me [...]
Tag: flowers
One can never have too many flowers…
I took a quick trip to Menards today. I have made a few such trips recently. Truth-be-told, I have been methodically checking in on the Menards' garden center. Some may call it stalking. The simple fact is I have been chomping at the bit for the opportunity to find some new lovelies for my garden [...]
Sitting out in the dirt…
I spent many hours in my garden today. I find work in the garden so gratifying and peaceful. It is a chance to think quiet thoughts while doing productive work that results in one of my greatest joys - a garden filled with beautiful flowers. My garden got a late start this year and was [...]
The season of dirty fingernails – garden therapy 2013.
I have concluded that my mental health is greatly improved by a day out in the garden. Yesterday was my first real concentrated effort in garden therapy and in the few short hours I invested I was reminded of the immense gratification and stress relief I get out of planting and nurturing plants and flowers. [...]
Petunia balls…
It occurred to me at about 6:30 AM this morning that if one must be up and about at such an ungodly hour they should at least have their landscape punctuated with petunia balls. That is about the only way 6:30 AM in the morning can be made palatable at the Minneapolis airport. Thank goodness [...]
Weird – level 10.
I am weird, but I don't have to tell you that. Anyone who has read a handful of my blogs can easily arrive at that conclusion. There are levels of weird though - and let's face it, the level matters. It is easy to tolerate a little bit of weirdness - indeed, we may even [...]
A hot boyfriend or a hot flash – I’ll take either.
Tonight I am hoping that Mother Nature has found herself a hot boyfriend. A boyfriend who warms the cockles of her sometimes chilly heart. My thought is that her Romeo will help forward my fervent wish - that all my garden plots avoid the frost. I am terribly saddened at the thought that my beautiful back [...]
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