mary, mary...quite contrary...
how does your garden grow...
the whole time i have been working on this garden
(and i'm telling you...it feels like a LOT of time...
i had no idea how much time this would take...)
i keep thinking about my uncle emmett.
when i planted my first garden
(back before i started shooting weddings)
my uncle emmett would stop by
to tell me how to keep the birds from
pulling my shoots up
and what to plant next to what
and when...
he would drive by the back lot
where the garden was
in his big old blue truck
to check on how it was doing
even when i wasn't home...
and then would call me when i
did get home to tell me that he was by
and it looked like the string beans
were finally coming up...
i can't tell you how much i miss that advice...
the sound of that big old blue truck coming up the road,
the little dog on the seat next to him...
i miss his big booming voice, his wheezy easy laugh
especially when he was making a joke at your expense
(cause that's what we do best in our family...
it means we love you...)
so today, when i went out and saw that
where last night there were NO string beans,
today they were popping up all over the place...
i immediately thought of him...
and how he would tell me to get some
aluminum pie plates out there to stop the birds
and how he would laugh when i told him
i already had to yell at 2 crows and a robin.
♥♥ ♥♥ ♥♥ ♥♥
whatcha readin'? {2017::book 3 - goal 24}
i love alice hoffman's books....
and i really enjoyed this one.
i can't say that i loved it...
i'm not sure why.
i feel like i didn't really like the main character
and that is always an issue for me
when it comes to whether or not
i really sink into a book.
but i do love her writing style
so that's always enough to carry me through.
:)
3 ♥♥♥ out of 5
NEXT UP: ANNE OF AVONLEA AND WILDFLOWER (DREW BARRYMORE)
digging in the dirt...
i have been bugging my husband for months now about the garden...
and all the things that i want to do...
and today he surprised me by coming home before me
and quickly putting together the boxes i wanted for the raised garden...
i can't wait to fill these up! :) :) :)
if you know me at all by now
you have probably figured out
that i tend to replace one obsession
with another...
yes, the weddings are done
and i have SO much free time!
which means i have to FILL it
with something else...
the play is also all done (& it was so much fun!)
so now i have moved onto gardening...
which is something i have always WANTED to do
but never seemed to have the TIME for...
and look what i have lots of now?
time.
:)
now i just need the knowledge...and the money.
heeheehee
i have been driving my husband crazy
talking about the garden
and the plans i have and could we do this?
and what if we did that?
and i agonized for days over where to plant
the lilac tree
and then the night right AFTER i planted it,
they called for frost.
i think it was ok though...so far, so good.
i have killed off/ruined a bunch of sunflowers
by starting them too early in the house
and they got all leggy and spindly and weak...
but the string bean plants i started look a little healthier.
i thought i killed off the poor baby rhubarb plant
because when i took it out of the pot to plant it
i was like...wow....there's not much for roots in here...
until i emptied the soil out
and saw that's where all the roots were!
but it seem to be making a brave attempt at a comeback
so we'll see.
and i finally finished what i have been referring to
as the "purple purge".
this was pure hell.
i was regretting that i started it about 1/4 of the way in
but it's all out now!
we used to get some pretty purple flowers in the side flower bed
but then this purple plant TOOK OVER the whole bed.
i thought, oh, i'll just dig it up and replant to make it "cut flower bed".
the purple plant did not want to be dug up.
but roughly 49 hours later of digging, tearing, cursing, crying,
stomping, shoveling, raking, complaining and questioning
why i ever thought this was a good idea
and it was done!
i wish i had taken a photo of it before...but...i didn't.
the gnomes are back and i bought a bird feeded
which the birds have not noticed yet
and it's driving me crazy.
just come eat the damn bird seed
and entertain me with your cuteness already!
it's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights...
well....this is it.
opening night tonight...
{shameless plug but there's still time to get tickets!}
if i said i wasn't nervous,
i'd be completely and totally
lying through my teeth.
i feel sick and excited all at once.
it's a strange feeling...
i can't wait for it to start
and i can't wait for it to be over
all at the exact same time.
the back and forth emotions of
being so scared i'm going to screw up my lines
or accidentally whisper bad words under my breath into the microphone
when i forget to pick up a prop...
to remembering the excitement of last year
and how amazing it was when you were backstage
and you heard that first roar of laughter...
and all the laughter that came after...in all of the right places...
so.
here goes nothing....
(and everything...all at once).
here's to many broken legs...
(I'm not sure if that is how one
wishes good luck to all of her cast-mates...
but...you get my drift, right?)