weeding the garden

[Absaroka]

For a while now I've been trying to meditate without a lot of success. This spring I hit on something that seems to work which is weeding the garden. Rather than thinking about how many weeds there are and trying to get them all out and then get more, I just sit on my little stool and enjoy digging them up, secure in the knowledge that the supply of weeds will not run out. And viola I began to look forward to it.

So the other day I went to the back garden in the early morning, right after the kids left for school, in an old skirt, undies and top. No stockings, it just didn't seem right. Lots of fun although there were nicer things than the clothes going on.

I got to thinking. What could be more feminine than weeding the garden. It's something my mom used to do all the time and something my wife does a lot on weekends. Of course I do it to but it seems I have a new attitude about it. And it's a nuturing, caretaking, being close to mother Earth and all that type of thing. According to my wife it's a lot more fun than shopping, although of course she views shopping as a chore, pretty much like I view shopping for guy clothes.

Only down side is that the garden is mostly flowers this year since I've gotten tired of supporting all the critters with the vegetables andI'm too lazy to build a good enclosure.

Absaroka

[Roberta-Llyan]

Greetings Absaroka

I too have a flower garden and work in it as needed. I am still in the process of planting various flowers too as it is not yet full.

I built it in front of my patio thus it faces the front yard. So it is something I too can do to relax and "meditate." For I've never felt the word "meditate" to mean I have to sit like some swami in India with my legs crossed--god forbid for I cannot even cross them regularly. hehehe

But working in the garden and enjoying the beauty of my flowers is one of the things I enjoy most--even as a woman. It is relaxing, calming and just plain fun at times. Perhaps you could share a photo of yours and I will try to get one of mine when finished and share it. We could start a "garden photo contest" on the forum. *winks*

Have a happy and safe holiday.

Hugs.

[Carol Ann]

Sorry living in the country I have a large veggie garden but seem to grow more ROCKS then anything else. Now if only I could can and put them up for winter.

[Virginia]

Hi Carol Ann,

Bet you make a great Rock Stew!!! and Rock Soup, wow! With the price of gas, we may all be eating more rocks!!!!

Currently living in an apartment I do miss the lawn and garden aspects but all things in time, I guess!

Pluck those weeds, girls!

Love,

Virginia

[Anita]

Hi Absaroka--
I have not had a garden in 33 years! Que Cosa! (The idea!) They can be so nice to have around. This house does have flowers all around, but vegetables are so useful and fun to harvest. Sounds like weeds are useful and fun to harvest, too, for some of us!

But the idea of enclosures and fighting the slugs and snails is quite daunting, too. It's not like I don't already have a do-list that takes up ten pages worth of Word documents.

[Frances Jewell]

A garden, I know its a great idea, but it seems like such hard work. It was also 38 degrees out this morning, hardly the weather that is conducive to growing anything but frostbitten fingers. I do have great admiration for those with a green thumb and if the story in the paper about the survivalists seeing a need to plant and store the vegetables, maybe I should learn.

Fran

[Absaroka]

Carol here in New England rocks are always the most plentiful crop. Why do you think we have all those picturesque rock walls? But I have always enjoyed your posts about the tomatoes and rabbits and so on. Maybe when I retire I'll find the time to do more than feed the wildlife. Although the raspberries do great- there's just too many of them for the birds to get them all. Back in the day my cats would sit under the raspberries all day long waiting for them but no more cats unfortunately due to allergies of myself and my daughter.

A couple of years ago I half seriously was looking up slug recipes on the net.

Anyway weeds are just wildflowers....... still I get selective about what wild flowers I want to proliferate, especially in the berry patch.

Today at a tag sale I bought a nice straw hat to wear around the yard. I am trying to decide if it's a unisex hat or a ladies hat. M kids say it's a woman's hat and not to wear it. But they hate all my guy hats too.

Absaroka

[Roberta-Llyan]

Not to worry Carol Ann. If you get bored or depressed you can always use those Missouri rocks to get "stoned."

[Sylvia H]

Virginia,

Apartment??? Whos woodshed have you been using all this time?



xox
Sylvia

[SilverLady(SO)]

Uhm, I've been keeping Virginia too busy in the 'hay loft', and that's all I'll say!!!

However, the Forum's woodshed is currently unoccupied, and I hope it stays that way!!

I do hope that you attend the Be All again this year . . . I enjoyed reading your posts on it last year!

*Hugs*

- SL

[Jeannie]

Hey Absaroka!
"What could be more feminine than weeding the garden." You're in big trouble now Hon. Hillary Clinton will slit your throat and Nancy Pelosi will stand by and watch you bleed to death. Hugs.

Love
Jeannie

[Ann Stef]

I find that weeding gardens is relaxing. I wear a wide chaki skirt with knee high stockings. Need the knee highs to stop the itching frlom kneeling in the garden.