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| My bear carving in the front yard, surrounded by my cherry bushes |
Good morning, all my fine readers! I hope your Monday was as
wonderful as mine was. It was just about
the most perfect day I’ve had in a while.
The sun was shining so nicely all day and the temperature was just
perfect, not too hot and not too cold, as long as you stayed out of the
shade. I spent so much time out in the
garden, digging around, that I still can’t get all the dirt out from under my
fingernails.
The best part is that right now all of my lilac hedges are
beginning to bloom and it just smells heavenly out in my yard. Well, actually,
some of the fruit trees are still blooming, too and it’s almost intoxicating to
be out there. Since the lilacs are on
three sides of the property, no matter which way the wind blows, it seems, it
smells like lilacs. And this is just the beginning, the hedge still has a lot
of flowers to open up yet!
I stayed home yesterday and let Rob take his truck since his
knee is doing so well. That really gave me the opportunity to get a lot of
stuff done around here. We had a lot of
nasty dead patches in the grass and so I had to scrape a lot of dead grass out
so Rob can reseed, hopefully in the next few days. I also had gotten some great new hanging
baskets online that are a pretty paisley print, so yesterday I filled the first
two up with my new black and yellow petunias.
They really look nice hanging on the front porch now between all the
wind chimes.
Sometimes I wonder if I irritate my neighbors with all my
wind chimes, I do have an over abundance of them, I must admit. But, I’ve been very choosy about the ones I’ve
got, they aren’t just little ones. When
we were on vacation, I got a really nice grouping that it about 2 feet long and
they make a beautiful low gonging sound out there now. I think I’m up to about 6 sets now. When the wind blows, which is often does
here, it is wonderful, I think. Most of
them take a lot of wind to even start making any noise at all. I even have one that we got in Cody that’s
made out of iron, shaped like big pine cones, that will knock you right out if
you happen to run into them on the porch, they are so darn heavy. The sales lady who sold them to me say that I
better live in Wyoming ,
or I’d never hear them do anything because it takes a lot of wind to make them
move.
Anyway, after I filled up my two new planters, I headed out
to the backyard and started planting my long planters that I use for all of my
salad ingredients. So now, I’ve got butter
lettuce, arugula, chives, cherry tomatoes, cilantro, basil and rosemary growing
on my back deck. Thistle has a real
affinity for dirt and was really trying to get a good munch of the soil the
whole time I was working. Yuck! I can’t tell you how many times she’s come
into the house with her mouth shut really tight and when I finally get her to
open it, it’s full of a big clump of dirt!
I worry when she tries to get this dirt I’m filling the planters with,
though, as I use that Miracle Grow soil and that can’t be good for her with all
the extra fertilizer in it.
Rob had said he really needed to mow the lawn when he got
home yesterday but I was worried about him and his knee so I decided after
lunch that maybe I should at least try to start the mowing for him. We have a huge yard and it takes quite a
while to mow it all. Since we’ve had so
much moisture, the grass had gotten really tall. Well, after I finally got the darn mower
started, I managed to get most of the mowing done for him before he got
home. It took me forever because I had
to keep going over places several times because it was so wet and tall. I got all but the side of the house done and
down by the veggie garden. It’s a good
thing because after he got finished with the rest of it and the trimming, his
knee was giving him a fit. Both of us
watched the television through closed eyes most of the rest of the evening!
Today is supposed to be another really nice day and I think
I’m going to be outside some more. I
still have about 5 hanging pots to fill and get hung up. The only errands I have to do are to get my
car to the shop for a new battery and tune-up this morning and then this
afternoon I’m finally getting my hair trimmed.
This evening, we’ve been invited to little Wyatt’s 5th birthday
party. He and Breean called last night
and asked us to come. He’s just so darn
cute, when Breean asked him who he wanted at his party, he named off some
little friends and then asked if he could invite us! I’m going to have to go find something for
the little guy today to take along as a present, too.
I’m back on my Gerson Therapy diet and my stomach is sitting
here grumbling like a big dog right now.
For the first few weeks, I have to drink and eat veggies and fruit every
hour, but it still doesn’t seem to be enough!
I do remember from the last time that my stomach will shrink soon,
though and this starving feeling should pass pretty quickly. Just to give you an example, my dinner last night was watermelon, blueberries
and steamed asparagus and bok choy. Not
something that stays in your tummy very long!
It really is okay, though, as my stomach pains have already subsided
since I’m not filling myself with heavy food anymore. The only part of the diet I don’t like is
that I can’t have coffee. Now, mind you,
I love tea and I drink it on a daily basis but usually I start off with a pot
of coffee first to get that caffeine! You really have to drink a heck of a lot
of green tea to get the same amount of caffeine and it just doesn’t feel the
same. At least this time, I’m much better at the cooking and stuff. The first time I went on this, I had no idea
how to make all this stuff palatable.
Well, I hope you have sunshine where you are today! Get out and enjoy some nature, if you can, it
will make you feel so much more alive!
Turn off all the ugliness the television is trying to tell you and get
back to the basics. Get your hands dirty
or just sit and watch a ladybug on her travels.
That always makes me realize that this world is so much more than the
troubles we are constantly bombarded with over the airwaves.
To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are now available. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
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