It's Raining...
....and I planted a rosebush.
I got soaked digging a hole and mixing in peat moss and manure mixture.
Then I planted the bush in the hole and packed the remaining mixture around it and watered it with fertilizer and water mixture.
I still have one more bush to plant and it's sitting in a bucket of water on the back porch - hopefully the rain will let up sometime tomorrow. I need a proper digging shovel - I don't actually have one in the shed. There are two shovels in there (and I bought a straight-bladed spade to cut /dig the border of the flowerbed) but not the kind I need. When you start doing yard work you start realizing how many different kinds of yard tools there are - shovels, picks...all kinds of things. You can fake some things, but when you need to dig a good-sized hole in somewhat solid earth, you need a proper digging shovel.
I'm going to have red and white rose bushes in my front yard. In the side yard, there's a huge pink honeysuckle bush, and another one in the backyard just over the fence. They've probably been around for as long as the house has, or at least twenty years judging from the size of them and the condition of some of the branches. I was here last spring, and I'm sure they smelled just as wonderful last year, but I didn't notice them until this year. It makes me think about what kind of a place I was in emotionally last year and how much better I am this year. It also reminds me that there are good things already here that I can work with and there are new things I can do to make things even better.
Yes, this is probably a metaphor, too.