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May 22, 2008
The Weather
Sucks, almost as bad as the gas prices!
Where did spring go??? We are turning the furnace on again and starting little fires in the woodstove here and there and...it snowed over the mountain Monday night on our way to buy my wicker set!
Yes, finally I have my white wicker set for our back porch and it looks very nice if I do say so myself! I will certainly enjoy sitting out there in the early mornings and late afternoons. But... I will miss my Beethoven who use to always lay up under the big pine tree in our back yard. I had to have him put down this week. He was my big rotty/retriever mix dog that we had for eight years, but he had become quite aggressive over the past few years towards other dogs and had recently attacked one of our neighbor's dogs while their young daughter was walking her and it scared me enough to finally have him put down so no one, including ourselves or kids, would be hurt. It was a very hard thing to do, but for the best and I'll miss not seeing him out there everyday.
So, now we are without any dogs and I plan to keep it that way. We have had such a bad streak of luck with animals in the past year and half! I like dogs though so maybe someday the right one will come along and be with us for a long time.
I'm also worried about hubby tonight and his diabetes as of late. His sugars are WAY out of control and I know his diet is part of it, but not sure all of it. So, I've decided we all need to take a better approach to our eating habits and serving sizes and start our walking back up again and if this doesn't help I want him to call the doctor as I think he may need to start a sliding scale of insulin in addition to the long acting he is already on. Here's hoping the diet and excercise will help!
So, it's been a long week and I'm glad I have a long weekend ahead of me. I plan to finish Mom's quilt and have a HUGE yard sale to get rid of some junk and work more on my flower gardens!
Posted by tracey at 10:28 PM | Comments (0)
May 16, 2008
Gardening for the soul
So this spring I have found myself in my flower gardens just about every evening. I should be taking my regular evening walks with Hannah, but she's playing til dusk with neighborhood kids and I'm in my gardens, weeding away.
I have come to find this once, daunting task, now to be very relaxing and soothing. I sit or kneel and pull and pull. The weeds actually come right out fairly easy as I've weeded and mulched in the past, but there are still quite a few to pull!
I counted last night and I have 8 flower beds! And I'm looking around the yard to see what else I want to do with it!
I also discovered gardening gloves this year!! I, of course, know they exist and have, I just never thought to buy me a pair! Saves your hands and nails a lot!!
So, I am really enjoying my gardens this spring, more so than in years past. Is it because I'm getting older and these types of things will now give me such pleasure, reserve and a great sense of peace?
Posted by tracey at 07:42 AM | Comments (0)