Monday, April 19, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
Gardening-not for the faint of heart!
Seriously, you think of gardening and the picture that comes to mind is a sunny afternoon...maybe a light breeze is blowing. Youre on your knees quietly planting, weeding, enjoying the solitude...a true moment of zen.
The reality.....
Since moving to this new house, the weeds are on a mission. I see it as a battle between the forces. Can they grow faster then I can get them out? WELL YES! they have all day to relax and just do their thing. Grow. Rain? Bring it on..that HELPS their cause while keeping me stuck inside.
STRANGE weeds have come up. The one I battled last night has a root system to the rest of his brethren that is like tree roots..RayRay and I battled them for a good hour! You know that moment when you pull and pull until it finally POPS and you fall on your ass!? Yes, We were there.
Add to this I have personally killed-WHILE GARDENING- thousands of ants, a BLACK WIDOW! (ACK) and an ant the size of bee. Weve seen countless snakes (one baby poisonous something or other), been buzzed and stalked by bumble bees and last night I tried cleaning out the grass and weeds that have grown taller than the large tight bunch of Iris' growing by the garage. I'm sitting on the grass thinking of the ticks weve pulled off of us and the one that jumped on me in this same spot last week while reaching down to pull the roots of the weeds. All of a sudden it hits me, I cant see where I'm putting my hands. The space between the plants is so tight and deep that I cant see if there's a snake watching my hand go in and out, in and out.........("hm, whats that thing? should I bite it?")
I started to laugh....who says gardening is a passive activity for the old??? I work a sweat everytime I go in the garden for 1 reason or another!
But I have to say that I'm enjoying getting back out into the yard. RayRay and I are getting a little color in our skin and the days have been beautiful, the privacy & peace have been soothing to the soul.
Anyone want to come help get the weeds out from between those Iris? ;)
The reality.....
Since moving to this new house, the weeds are on a mission. I see it as a battle between the forces. Can they grow faster then I can get them out? WELL YES! they have all day to relax and just do their thing. Grow. Rain? Bring it on..that HELPS their cause while keeping me stuck inside.
STRANGE weeds have come up. The one I battled last night has a root system to the rest of his brethren that is like tree roots..RayRay and I battled them for a good hour! You know that moment when you pull and pull until it finally POPS and you fall on your ass!? Yes, We were there.
Add to this I have personally killed-WHILE GARDENING- thousands of ants, a BLACK WIDOW! (ACK) and an ant the size of bee. Weve seen countless snakes (one baby poisonous something or other), been buzzed and stalked by bumble bees and last night I tried cleaning out the grass and weeds that have grown taller than the large tight bunch of Iris' growing by the garage. I'm sitting on the grass thinking of the ticks weve pulled off of us and the one that jumped on me in this same spot last week while reaching down to pull the roots of the weeds. All of a sudden it hits me, I cant see where I'm putting my hands. The space between the plants is so tight and deep that I cant see if there's a snake watching my hand go in and out, in and out.........("hm, whats that thing? should I bite it?")
I started to laugh....who says gardening is a passive activity for the old??? I work a sweat everytime I go in the garden for 1 reason or another!
But I have to say that I'm enjoying getting back out into the yard. RayRay and I are getting a little color in our skin and the days have been beautiful, the privacy & peace have been soothing to the soul.
Anyone want to come help get the weeds out from between those Iris? ;)
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