Patience

Wow, what a long week I put in! I got super sore n impatient the last few days, n wondered how I'd get thru to Day Off again. I did have a few silly days of joking around while I was slap-happy, n over-tired.

Then Day Off arrived with so much built up to do that I barely got to doing pics to post for the next day by 3 am. It had been raining with pop -up showers the whole week, but cleared for my free time finally, yay.

I had a super-clutzy, losing things I just had, n knocking stuff over evening doing things at home after errands. Prior to that while doing errands I was challenged by the bottom coming off-flapping of my favorite, old, cross-trainer shoes. I did a temp-clamp with Dollar Tree rubber bands, then when home I glued them together n re-clamped off my foot.

I went crazy looking for a missing old shoe to garden with, but gave up n used good ones so didn't dig much.

I'm discouraged with ground planting. I've done the same spots for beans n squash now 3 times with seeds. What had sprouted got eaten almost immediately by insects. I've been using "Seven" Garden powder in between raining.

Yesterday I put out some ant traps with cups over them to keep out rain n the cats. I put some seedlings in containers n surrounded them with chicken wire. Maybe those will do better.

I'm paranoid of putting the tomatoes out there now. The only ground plants doing ok now are the radishes that I won't eat, just planted to help carrots sprout, n a few peas along the garden fence. Everything else seeded is still MIA.

But on the bright side, The potted, pale, purple Lilies of the Valley from the old house finally came up n gave me one sprig of cute, 1/4 inch bells for the first time! I had expected them much earlier on the spring, n had thought them gone.

Tough gardening n being patient when over-tired n working too many hours.

The altered pics today are from a photo of them this year. Maybe other plants will show up off schedule n give me some free food n blooms...