Granddaddy is Really Sick and the Garden is Full of Weeds

Funny how you can tell how things are going in your life by the condition of the things that you love.
My beloved 94 year old Granddad is very ill. He is not bed ridden mind you, as a matter of fact he won't go to bed. He has congestive heart failure and the pressure that laying down puts on his chest is so great, he won't sleep in his bed, but instead, in his kitchen chair.

I find this so very upsetting, and even after a hospital bed has been provided for him, just laying back the littlest bit puts too much pressure on his chest.

I feel absolutely helpless to help him, because even though the smallest tasks are becoming impossible for him, I'm still a child in his eyes, and can only make him do so much.

I garden because of him. He taught me how at a very young age, and my first driving experience was on his old McCormick Farmall Tractor. It is a passion of his, and he has passed it onto me. Now when I go to the garden, I cry. I half heartedly pull the weeds, and I still have to transplant peppers, but I find myself avoiding the garden because my thoughts immediately go to him, and as of right now he will never have another garden, and he has said so.

Oh how these threads that sew the fabric of our lives connect. I know that Granddaddy is in God's hands and all will be in His time, just as I know that I will work my garden until I can no longer do so, and the passion for cultivating ones food has been passed to my children.

No, it's not fun. It's hard dirty work, but when you put up 20 jars of jelly from the strawberries you have grown, or cut up cucumbers in order to make 5 gallons of pickles, or when your making soup and you can go out into your own yard and pull up enough potatoes, onions, and carrots to fill your pot....you have done something real.

It is a basic and wonderfully rich experience, and a gift from my Granddad that I am so grateful to for giving me.

Thank you Granddaddy, I'll get to those weeds.

I Finally Get to Dig!!!

Sunday was such a glorious day, and with all of my energy being focused on the City Council Elections I have been mourning the loss of my time that I so easily could have spent in the garden.
Yet, with Sunday's glory, I made up for lost time; and boy am I sore!

The kitchen garden bed is weeded and hoed, and ready for seeds.
One my readers was so | Direct Links | Movies world | Software world | Download PC Games | Mediafire Links | Celebrity Picturesthoughtful she sent me an express mail package filled with open pollenated seeds. I cant' wait to get in them and see what's there!

My Bee's arrive on the 11th, and I hope to have Himself's Troy Built Horse over here by then to turn this earth so we can get busy!

Thank you sooooo much for the seeds!

I'll keep you posted on what kind they are and what their progress is.

Toodles!

I'm calling it a night...

One Day Till Spring Yippee!

This was written in an email to me this morning.

Yes spring is here and all us who love the warmth and sunshine are rejoicing.

I have been busy campaigning for office. I am running for a Council Seat in our town and this campaign is consuming huge blocks of my time.

I am hoping that I will get the garden tilled and ready for planting in the next week. I know, I know it should have already been done, but it's not. However, I do have a new plot to work, and am very excited as it is twice as large with twice as much sunshine!!!

Now I will be able to dedicate the garden right outside my back door to herbs, and the much larger plot to real veggies!

Oh Joy!!!

Happy Spring Everyone!

Spring Fever Hits the Slackers

Friday morning was so warm and sunny, I looked forward to a wonderful day. It exceeded all expectations!
Hubby went downstairs and got us a cup of coffee and when he came back up he said that #1 Son was in the backyard.
I asked what #1 was doing and he said he had a hoe in his hand was cleaning the sod overgrowth off of the brick path! What?
I asked him if he said anything to him and hubby replied 'Good Morning'. He said he didn't want to rock the boat.
I agreed and relished in the thought of someone else actually working in the back yard.

A few minutes later I was dressed and went down stairs and #1 announced that he was going to build a new arbor for the wisteria vine that has eaten the shed and demolished the old arbor.
I quickly replied, "Okay, do you need me to do anything"? He said he didn't he just wanted to hang out and play in the dirt.
I think he must have fallen and bumped his head!
Soon after his sister woke up and joined him in building the arbor. They trimmed limbs from the cedar tree to use in their construction of the arbor, and it has turned out to be quite sturdy.
This is their first attempt at cooperatively building anything, and while it is certainly not perfect, I am so happy with the thought and the attempt.
I love the crude twig furniture style, and I think that the arbor will look beautiful when everything starts greening and the wisteria comes into bloom.

Iris Society to Show at the Center at Salisbury

Saturday at the Center at Salisbury the Iris Society will be conducting their annual show.
If you have never had the chance to see this, and really like Iris' you will be amazed.
I personally never knew that there were so many different colors and varieties of this beautiful plant.
It is a worthwhile show that displays some of the finest specimens one would ever have the chance to see.
I hear tell worm castings will also be available for purchase as well!
So go on and get out and get some culture this weekend, and while your at pick up some worm castings for your garden!

Wymzie