Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Snow today!
The greenhouse is almost done!! I can just imagine it . But the roof is not sealed in at the top part and so we have decided to put the tarp back on and go from there depending what nature throws at us.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Today begins, for Orthodox Christians, the preparatory period leading up to Easter (Pascha). It is Called the Great and Holy Lent. It is not so much giving up something but using time for introspection and prayer. It is a time for quiet. It reminds me now of how quiet and peaceful the garden is now, just waiting to burst into blooms from all my many bulbs and perennials.It is a time for planning. I bought vegetable seeds Saturday as a greenhouse warming gift for myself.. I am greatful for the change in seaasons and to experience the change. It is a time to plan and hope for a garden and harvest that we can deal with and share with our friends and neighbors. Did you see the moon last night? absolutely gorgeous.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
It is hard to believe the winter we are having in New England this year! After the October ice storm, many people said it was a precursor of a difficult winter to come.. I hoped that it was One then done.
Seems Nature smiled on me because we haven't had measurable snow since. I feel as if I have been given the lovely gift of time.time to dream, time to walk around the yard and think how I would improve it and to think about a sustainable garden with food to feed us and to put up for the winter, the perfect perennial garden that is always blooming, better ways to control weeds. And oh
how I wanted a greenhouse, a nice big one! My husband designed it and we had been saving cull lumber from Lowes for a few years. We also had windows and a door that had been destined for the dump. So with the gift of time my husband designed it and with my little help due to my spinal cord injury, and the help of people just dropping by, the green house is up and almost finished in my back yard! Having gotten a spinalcord injury in my 50's threw me for a loop. Just always figured I would be a Neuro ICU RN until my retirement. I always wanted to be a nurse, always a nurse, from the camps of Operation Safe Haven on Guam at the Fall of Siagon, to being a camp Nurse for the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Boston, and the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston where I had worked for 25years.I always defined myself as being a nurse. Now what? I did not know who I was anymore.
My parents had died, my husband of more than 20 years died, my nursing died, my beloved brother and Military Hero Tom commited suicide.I remarried and decided I really liked flowers.. So beautiful.
So those Breck Catalogues became my best friends.Things I had looked at before and always thought that I could not do that became doable. I just showed Kenn , my husband what I had in mind. He built me a little secret garden with a picket fence in it, made leaf cages for me last fall because I had read about them in a magazine. He showed me how to tape off a large piece of plywood so I could paint a design of a quilt square to put up on the side of my potting shed, because I saw one in a blog about Wisconsin Barns.Knowing what you no longer are,opens the door to finding out who you are and thankfully I am finding out.
Seems Nature smiled on me because we haven't had measurable snow since. I feel as if I have been given the lovely gift of time.time to dream, time to walk around the yard and think how I would improve it and to think about a sustainable garden with food to feed us and to put up for the winter, the perfect perennial garden that is always blooming, better ways to control weeds. And oh
how I wanted a greenhouse, a nice big one! My husband designed it and we had been saving cull lumber from Lowes for a few years. We also had windows and a door that had been destined for the dump. So with the gift of time my husband designed it and with my little help due to my spinal cord injury, and the help of people just dropping by, the green house is up and almost finished in my back yard! Having gotten a spinalcord injury in my 50's threw me for a loop. Just always figured I would be a Neuro ICU RN until my retirement. I always wanted to be a nurse, always a nurse, from the camps of Operation Safe Haven on Guam at the Fall of Siagon, to being a camp Nurse for the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Boston, and the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston where I had worked for 25years.I always defined myself as being a nurse. Now what? I did not know who I was anymore.
My parents had died, my husband of more than 20 years died, my nursing died, my beloved brother and Military Hero Tom commited suicide.I remarried and decided I really liked flowers.. So beautiful.
So those Breck Catalogues became my best friends.Things I had looked at before and always thought that I could not do that became doable. I just showed Kenn , my husband what I had in mind. He built me a little secret garden with a picket fence in it, made leaf cages for me last fall because I had read about them in a magazine. He showed me how to tape off a large piece of plywood so I could paint a design of a quilt square to put up on the side of my potting shed, because I saw one in a blog about Wisconsin Barns.Knowing what you no longer are,opens the door to finding out who you are and thankfully I am finding out.
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