Wouldn’t you know it! I was digging a hole to plant a new shrub when I hit a big ol’ rock. I not only heard that clank and “thud” when the shovel hit the rock, but felt the shovel vibrate at the same time. Sigh. I spent the next hour or so trying to dig the rock out, wondering all the while why I didn’t just plant the shrub a foot over to avoid the rock. But that rock was taking up the perfect spot for that shrub and I was determined. After realizing it wasn’t going to be that easy to … [Read more...] about Achieving Happiness In Your Garden: The Ninth Secret
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Achieving Happiness In Your Garden: The Eighth Secret
I had worked so hard in the garden that day, starting early when the first rays of sunlight were slowly inching their way above the horizon and finishing hours later as the light faded over the opposite horizon. Weeding, planting, deadheading, harvesting, mowing, hoeing. I got a lot done I also wore myself out and looked a mess, as they say. Mud on my knees, grass stains on my shirt, dirt and perhaps a blister or two on my hands, but I had a smile on my face. It was a good day in the … [Read more...] about Achieving Happiness In Your Garden: The Eighth Secret
Achieving Happiness in Your Garden: The Seventh Secret
Earlier this summer, my sister called to tell me that they while cleaning out the attic, they found an old box labeled “gardening stuff”. “Would you like to come over and take a peak inside to see if there is anything in there that you want?” She barely had a chance to finish asking me before I jumped into my car and headed to her house, the very house we all had grown up in. “What could be in that box”, I wondered? I thought we had cleared out the attic years ago, before my sister and … [Read more...] about Achieving Happiness in Your Garden: The Seventh Secret
Achieving Happiness In Your Garden: The Sixth Secret
I'll admit I was excited when I learned that there were several more secrets to achieving happiness in your garden other than first five secrets I had discovered so long ago. I was on high alert. I wanted to find these new secrets, wherever they were and whatever they were, as fast I could grow radishes in the springtime. Every day as I tended the garden, I looked for stray scraps of paper that might have a secret written on them. I turned over rocks to see if a secret might be hidden … [Read more...] about Achieving Happiness In Your Garden: The Sixth Secret
Five More Secrets To Achieving Happiness In Your Garden
I have discovered five more secrets to achieving happiness in your garden. One evening earlier this fall, I was sitting in the quiet of the garden lazily looking at nothing in particular when I noticed an odd plant tag sticking up out of the ground. It wasn’t anywhere near a plant. Had I planted something there that had disappeared? Was there a dormant root, a seed perhaps, buried near that plant tag? Curious, I knelt down by the tag and read it slowly. “There are five more secrets to … [Read more...] about Five More Secrets To Achieving Happiness In Your Garden
New Page: Five Secrets To Achieving Happiness In Your Garden
Blog posts are sometimes like the blooms of a flower, here today, gone tomorrow, replaced by another post. Perhaps the blog post is remembered, or perhaps it is best forgotten, almost a weed. As I approach another milestone in blogging... post number one thousand five hundred, expected to be posted sometime before the end of July, I've decided to copy a few of my favorite posts, or series of posts, into the new static pages offered by Blogger. A few weeks ago, I made a static … [Read more...] about New Page: Five Secrets To Achieving Happiness In Your Garden
