Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts

Sunday, January 18, 2009

A Good Kind of Tired


This is what 'the spot' looked like when my day started . . . .I spent the day fetching, transporting and then planting ten 30 year old blueberry bushes. Now I can check off one more fulfilled compulsion. What is it with me and my ridiculous farming compulsions anyway?! At least this one was cheaper than the greenhouse is going to be.

I was too tired to take an 'after' picture so that will have to wait until tomorrow (yes, I really was THAT tired).

I am sore, dirty, hungry and tired tonight, but it is so satisfying knowing that it was energy expended toward something productive. Of course, now that I have 10 in the ground I am just certain that I need another 20 or so.
And I am so exhausted that I don't want to cook. What a waste . . .because we all know how good food tastes when we are really hungry, right? Well, wouldn't it be nice to have your own cooking taste THAT good? I wonder why it is that food always tastes better when someone else makes it, especially after a day of manual labor. Wait . . . that gives me an idea . . .maybe the next time I have dinner guests I'll run them ragged first--flat out exhaust them--and then feed them . . .they will LOVE my food that way. Hmmmm. I have to give this some serious thought.








Friday, January 16, 2009

You are my sunshine . . .

You gotta love the sun! It's been showing itself for almost a week now, and I still appreciate every moment of it. It's stirring the spring fever, but we still have so long until planting time . . . .or do we?

I finally located some mature blueberry bushes for sale. It seems they need to be moved and planted this weekend so I may be digging in the dirt sooner than anticipated. Another obsession to check off my list. I don't know why I 'have' to have blueberries (mature plants) but I do!


Even though it is sunny these days, I still can't bring myself to go running outside . . . I convince myself that I'm going to get really, really cold at the furthest point out in my run . . .then what would I do? Instead I headed to the Y again. I kinda wish peer pressure had a stronger effect on me--I would probably be in a lot better shape if I was afraid to walk out of a fitness class that I wasn't liking. But really . . .if the music isn't any good, why bother? (See how good I am with excuses?)