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moderately_mad

Tuesday's Putterings (inc. the big stuff of the last week)

Aug 30, 2006 01:47

Topics contained herein:
Gardening woes, hailstones, the completion of a Mission 101 task and the bleepin’ string of bad luck that seems to be tangled around almost everyone I know.

( today's: weather, mood, gratitudes & accomplishments )

mission 101, my yards & gardens, gardens, about m--, about ch--, prompts & germs for fiction, phenology, putterings, prompts & germs for non-fiction, about gmom

Comments 7

eleme August 30 2006, 14:55:25 UTC

yay on the rabbity bottle :) That's good news! And I'm disappointed about the pumpkins too, I had been looking forward to them with you! Don't consider yourself a bad gardener, sometimes the critters get to things before we do. And then you could always take it as a compliment(!) that you are such a good gardener that the deer and the bunnies like your veggies too! But that might not help =/

moderately_mad September 3 2006, 16:56:54 UTC

Update: We did find a few untact pumpkins so my gardening faith is restored :D. I must admit that I'm sorta proud that critter come from miles around to eat my untainted food. (That's my theory -- they can tell I don't use artificial chemicals.)

eleme September 4 2006, 19:58:47 UTC

Good! I'm glad you found some :)

poets_hand August 31 2006, 02:32:02 UTC

That's a lot to digest.

As to the critters in the garden, there are gardening catalogues that have solutions in them. One of them - good for deer - is a motion-detecting sprinkler that shoots a jet-powered spray of water to scare the deer away from wherever they are. It doesn't hurt them, just startles them away.

I hope you can find yourself back on the right path soon. I know that feeling, and yes, it is unsettling.

moderately_mad September 3 2006, 17:01:28 UTC

'Several days later and I feel much better. Things are looking up in the gardens and I've got my house back under control. (I am so weird about creeping disorder.) I think I need to spend even more time puttering around in my safe-happy place when my extended world is in turmoil. I don't do anyone any good when I get out of kilter.

I have to admit I LOVE the idea of shooting the deer with a sprinkler in the middle of the night. I will be looking into animal deterrents over the winter when I'm dreaming of the perfect gardens that I will have next year. :)

one_raido August 31 2006, 02:55:07 UTC

It’s as if time doesn’t make any sense.
Each day is tiring and full of activity yet
each week is void of both meaning and progress yet
each month is so packed with significant events that I get lost yet
each season is fleeting and consuming and painfully beautiful yet
each year rushes me past any reasonable expectation of achieving ALL of my dreams

This is an amazing insight. I feel the same way and I wish I had answers.

moderately_mad September 3 2006, 17:07:24 UTC

Life was hitting me hard when I wrote those words. It all just seems so inevitable sometimes.

I am feeling better now, a few days later. I have to allow myself to do a lot of cocooning / nesting when I start feeling swept up. It's funny how cooking and cleaning and snuggling ground me. I may complain, but such things anchor me so that I can enjoy my passionate friends and my consuming interests.