Tilly needs new tires. She’s parked until I can afford them. My oldest son let us borrow his rotor tiller. Thank you, son.
Some of the seeds I bought and planted earlier in April have not come up. Country Roads and Lance-leaf coreopsis have let me down. I replanted two rows of flowers this Saturday. The time in the garden is my therapy. Starting over is how we live, right? A new beginning every morning.
Swamp rabbits have envaded my raised beds. The little kitchen garden has become their nighttime dining spot. They’ve devoured hot peppers and English peas. And they have made their way to the big, rowed up garden and left their teeth marks on the young, Contender green bean plants.
The raised beds holding English peas, yellow squash and hot peppers were each wrapped with garden mesh this morning. I did the same with the blueberry plants that are loaded with fruit. Fingers crossed.
Because Tilly is out of commission, no work in the big field can happen. Tilly is used for bushhogging as well a gardening/tilling. The bikes look forlorn out in the field all by themselves with no flowers framing them. I’m trying to think of a way to get something planted out there, though.
Even with these setbacks -all in the space of a few weeks- I managed to gather fresh flowers for the house. Asiatic lily bulbs bought in March and put in pots are blooming now. Volunteer coreopsis in the big garden are also showing out. How they got there, shoulder shrug, I don’t know. Serendipity! And two tiny rose bushes bought at a local grocery store have come out for spring: one pale pink, one yellow.
Placed in front of the fireplace mantel mirror, the little bouquets multiply. One of the tiny bud vases was my great grandmother’s and one was found at a local junk shop. They’re fun to use and echo the shape of the bigger green vase that was my mother’s.
These little bouquets remind me to keep moving forward. Setbacks; don’t let them get you down. Adjust, pivot, bob and weave. Just keep trying.
When is rabbit season..?🐇
Blessings from the Exile’s Kitchen.
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