I've been outside digging holes one after another. After planting at the Rehab

Thursday Carl got another bug up (you know where) to go to the nursery and

buy more plants. Carl has decided we are going to have in the front yard a

butterfly garden. We've got a variety of perennials (cuz I'm not doing this

over again next year) and Day Lilly, and Asian Lilly. I avoided going out

when Carl went cus I wanted to catch up one reading the news and avoid a

confrontation with him to where I think the plants should go vs he thinks.

Carl has such a short fuse, the littlest thing kicks him off. So, let him dig

holes and plant (he bought, let him plant them :roflmao: I'm just kidding.

Well, that did not take long before he calls me outside and wants my opinion.

Now is this a trap for me to get engaged in the process and give an opinion or

do I just go along with what his idea is and agree with him. I agree with him

on everything and offer to dig holes and he can plant and fill up with potting

soil. I really did want to come outside and play in the dirt today. Between

the two of us we got what we had planted. So off to Lowe's to buy a

piece of plywood to fix the porch chair. You guessed it were do we end

up but in the nursery and we get more plants. Oh, Carl found a sunny place

for my tire to be placed for me to plant my gourds. I'll be able to attache

the vines to the front fence so once they get started their won't be any work in

keeping them off the ground. Just add them to the watering list. Pray we get

enough rain this summer.

Our raised bed we have on the side of the house is almost filled up,

I have 10 different types of tomatoes, about a dozen different pepper plants,

herbs, and I started beets in the house and they will be big enough to

plant outside in another week. Out front along the driveway outside of the

fence to the street we planted collards. They have been in for 3 weeks and

our doing quit nice. Bad news: someone walking past decided to stop and

admire but then pulled up our collards and took 6 out of 10 plants with them.

:Tantrum: they were still in baby stage, Maybe they could not afford plants

and took mine. They could of asked . I'm mad as hell but I have to turn to

spirit and say they must of needed them. Go on with my day. That's enough

of that.

I have not had the stamina to be out digging in the garden for 4 years. This is

a passion of mine to grow the things I can go right outside and pick to have

for my dinner and to cut beautiful flowers for my table. The joy it brings

to my heart. To share what blooms in my yard for other people to

experience joy in their lives. The last time I gardened heavy was in '96'.

Now that I look back I was declining and did not recognize it. I've been

hypothyroidism since '66'. My first stroke doctors estimate was back in '98'.

The hole started being dug when I lost my eyesight in my left eye. But all

the digging threw my years has sooner or later left me smelling roses. So I

use metaphorical the gardening. This is great therapy for the both of us.

No upsets, no conflicts, I understanding Carl has some deficits that he is

working threw, I'm working on deficits he doesn't have but all and all I

rather be happy and joyful than right. (most of the time). :cocktail: