Erin-style gardening

I’ve gotten a ton of stuff done around the house and outside today. A quick trip to Target and small items that I’ve been needing to take care of for weeks are suddenly finished. Sydney asked me to plant some onions and leeks in small containers, so I spent a couple of hours outside with my fingers in dirt, plants in hand, and birds fluttering around me on the way to the recently-refilled feeder. When I looked up there were three male goldfinches perched just overhead! Goldfinches are my favorite bird, so I felt like I was getting the royal treatment today.

This gardening project was far removed from the kind of gardening Sydney will be getting me into later this month; that gardening involves a rather hefty fence system (you really shouldn’t need a post-hole digger and 2x4s to “garden”), long days of digging, and generally a lot of mud. Maybe if I could just garden sometime, rather than farm (which is what we seem to do in this house), I would have unmitigated happiness at the prospect of a summer of gardening. But for now I’ll try to hold onto thoughts of my leisurely gardening this afternoon, rather than my memories of some really rotten days last year, and see how far in the season that enthusiasm takes me!

Oh, and as a sidenote, I think I actually got a bit of a tan from my activities today. That should tell you how close to paper-white I must have been!

Erin

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