It’s Monday. Maybe because I’m retired, Mondays are mostly
quiet, a bit of a break from the flurry of activity weekends usually bring. It’s
a great day to map out my week so I can be ready for a bit of entertaining next
Saturday...nothing big, but still, I want everything sparkling and tidy. Ok,
maybe tidy will have to do.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love it to sparkle too, it’s just
that I can’t envision getting it all done because I ache from weeding and
mulching and the thought of so much more left to do. Sometimes I wonder if I
really look like a tortoise as I plod and crawl across each garden, tugging a straggling
weed here or preening a plant there, shaking out mulch stuck between leaf and stem. I sure seem to
move like one. I'm oh-so-grateful that Tim and my son, Alan, spent the day with me Saturday concentrating on this daunting chore.
Perhaps next year our schedule—and Mother Nature’s too—will be
more conducive to early mulching chores, so we can finish long before our
perennials sprout. You see, we traveled to Sorrento, Italy in April this year.
It was worth the slip in our garden maintenance, of course, but we’re paying
the price now with weeds run amok. That’s why this morning I’m drinking Lapsang
souchong tea: its smoky, hearty flavor seems to promise extra strength for the
gardening tasks that await. Ever try it?
Note to self: Hurry and finish essential gardening chores: quilting projects await!
This is an appliquéd frog square from the “Infrognito” quilt I made and donated to our community
college raffle (2013). It's also my “Inspiration” to begin another for Tim, who really wanted that one;
college raffle (2013). It's also my “Inspiration” to begin another for Tim, who really wanted that one;
but that, my friends, is a story for another day.
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