gemtactics

spread five small bales of hay in the vegetable garden barely covering one third of it shopped at Gilbertie’s bought parsley, rosemary, thyme (English) lavender (silver), Greek oregano and fuzzy oregano “Dittany of Crete”...

tackled the upper yards today pruning raspberries and butterfly bushes removing dead branches from the lilac maple saplings, sassafras suckers from the shade garden pulling up wild mustard with its white flowers yanking out...

pruned the butterfly bushes pulled up maple seedlings cut maple saplings too big to pull weeded peonies in side bed refreshed the thyme and sage pruned our side of the thick hedge cut out...

took mom to the cardiologist today bookended between tea at Tusk & Cup and the Pond Trail at Topstone on the way home captured photos of my favorite barns subtly examining my attachments grateful...

probably the wrong way to phrase it living moment by moment, you wouldn’t notice but grabbing onto miniature milestones seems helpful especially when they cluster today’s the public hearing on the subdivision I started...

helps to say it “my life has become unmanageable” oh that’s what happening removing the reaction powerless over the timeframe powerless over the construction I can clean and I can garden I can write...

juxtapose my foul mood sweating and stewing over moving an interminable pile of sticks down the hill as part of “Project Clean Yard” and the mystical event happening on the other side of the...