Good Day

[eiblyn]

We were industrious today. We went and picked up dining chairs for Mom. Then we went by the store and got the stuff for Balcony Garden '08. I got a good sized bag of finished compost, a large bag of peat, two bags of potting soil, a container big enough for a tomato and three laundry baskets. I lined one of the baskets with a trash bag and mixed some of the dirt from last year with compost and peat. It's airing today and adjusting to itself. I'm planning to start my seedlings tomorrow. It's still far too cold to have them outside, but I can start them in my little indoor green house thing. I'm trying to plan how all I'm going to plant everything. It's good to feel interested in plants again. After I got back from WA last year, I was not so interested in plants. Some of my disappointment with how the workshop I went to turned out translated into a neglect of my own endeavors that I had started. I'm glad to know that the joy of gardening and food growing has not gone away. We also got packages in the mail today. It is the books I bought earlier this month to start reading on pagan stuff. So I'm debating diving in or not. I need to sort through the dozen or so books I've started and put down. Some of them need to go back on the bookshelf. Some of them probably need to be given away. *sighs* I hate that I have so many problems finishing an entire book at a time. My attention just wanders so much. Anyway, I feel good today and life is good.

Comments

[breimh.livejournal.com]

After I got back from WA last year, I was not so interested in plants. Some of my disappointment with how the workshop I went to turned out translated into a neglect of my own endeavors that I had started.

I'm sorry to hear it was a bad experience for you. Most of our workshops and clinics to grow things have profound effects on people, but more commonly in the positive side of things. One can look outside, even along the city streets, freeways and interstate routes, and see all the lush, verdant greenery and feel a call from deep inside (as well as all around) to make things grow.

I'm actually starting to plan ideas for how to get a few plants growing on the balcony, here, through the spring, summer and fall. I just have to be careful nothing takes too solid a hold, since the wood is old and continues to be "fertilized" by the blackbirds that have followed us from Skykin Grove to our new home.

[eiblyn.livejournal.com]

It was not WA's fault or even really the fault of the workshop. I was just frustrated with having paid so much money and having to leave really early from the workshop. I was also frustrated by how little of what I was learning seemed to be applicable to my life as I don't have any growing space that is not in a container. *sighs* It was just a situation of the wrong time and place in my life.