Some Days…
Some days….
you wake up with a headache and overcook the eggs
and the dog is sick from eating chicken food
it’s a rainy dreary day so you can’t get outside
then you remember there’s laundry on the line
Some days we simply focus on the wrong things.
Because on those same days…
you have a warm and toasty house
with warm wooly socks to wear and fluffy cats to pet
and a honey that brings you ginger tea
delicious locally made sausage and braised cabbage for dinner
along with a few new books on the coffee table to read after it gets dark
Some days it’s not about what happens, but about what you see.
What wonderfully simple things are overshadowing your hardships this week?
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It’s a Garlic Planting Party
Today I’m doing a giveaway for a Garlic Combo from Peaceful Valley Farm Supply. There are also 7 other blogs participating in this Garlic party and they’re all doing giveaways as well, it’s the same prize pack only each blog has a different variety of garlic. If you’d like to increase your odds of winning, you can head on over to these wonderful blogs to enter to win. While you’re there check out their blogs, they’re all great!
If you’d like more chances to win, there are 7 other blogs doing this same giveaway, with different varieties of garlic.
Peaceful Valley’s Organic Gardening Blog for ‘Bogatyr’
Gardenerd for ‘California Early White’
A Suburban Farmer for ‘Purple Gazer’
North Coast Gardening for some ‘Russian Red’
Western Gardeners for ‘Purple Italian’
Living Homegrown for ‘German Red’
Dirt Du Jour divas are giving away French red shallots
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On Air
Mr Chiots has been itching to start a Chiot’s Run podcast. It’s not really my cup of tea, but I figured I’d give it a go (remember Sunday’s post about fear).
The plan is to record a podcast every Sunday and publish it on Mondays (oops, today is Tuesday, but I already had my Monday post planned). This week the theme is “Why?”.
The podcast was posted as a separate post just before this one, you can listen there. We’re still working out the kinks, so let us know if you have any problems. If you have any questions you want answered on the podcast, ask away, here or on any post. It will be up on iTunes shortly, so you can subscribe there if you’d like.
Do you like to listen to podcasts or talk radio? Any questions you’d like answered in a podcast format?
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Quote of the Day: John A. Shedd
“A ship in harbor is safe,
but that is not what ships are built for.”
John A. Shedd
I have been thinking about this quote as I’ve been letting Dexter take forays out into the garden. You see, Dexter is not an indoor cat. We tried to make him one and he literally went crazy. As much as I’d love to keep him safely inside, I realize it’s not really the healthiest thing for him.
All this week I’ve been taking him outside for little jaunts while I work in the garden. The first day I let him outside, he caught a mouse within five minutes as if to prove his point. Each day, he gets to spend a little more time in the garden with me and gets to wander farther away.
He thrives on hunting mice, rolling in the dust, sniffing the fresh air, eating grass, climbing trees, chasing insects and padding about the garden. Dexter is a much happier cat when he is able to be outside. I can totally understand that, as I’m much happier and healthier when I can spend time outside as well.
Yesterday he even went on a three mile hike with us, running ahead as a dog would and waiting for us to catch up. He was a bit winded by the end, but he thoroughly enjoyed himself.
It’s a dangerous world out there for cats, they can be eaten by a variety of predators and risk injury from other threats; I’m OK with that. I’d much rather Dexter lead a short happy life than a long miserable one.
The same holds true for my life, I hope I never allow fear to hold me back from experiences that could be great but come with risk. I guess if I did I’d still be living in Ohio. I want to live my life to the fullest and to do that I must take risks!
Do you ever let fear hold you back?
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Plants to Add to the Garden
I rarely leave the house without my camera in my bag. There are many reasons for this, the most important being, you never really know what you’re going to see. Like this:
When we went to the Belfast Co-op a week ago Friday, we stopped to look at their pollinator garden out front. We spotted this beauty blooming nicely for late September.
Thankfully, all the plants were labeled (as they should be in public gardens). I snapped a photo of the label so I could remember to procure some seeds this winter. Downy Sunflower is a perfect name for this plant, it’s leaves are fuzzy like lamb’s ears. In case you’re interested, I found a few places that have seed:
Prairie Moon Nursery
Prairie Nursery
Wildflower Farm
I’m always looking for new and interesting plants to add to the garden, especially those that are beneficial for pollinators. Since this one blooms into the fall, it will be perfect. I can’t wait to spend some time looking at the websites listed above. I love reading about prairie plants and look forward to hopefully someday having a small prairie meadow incorporated into these gardens.
Have you discovered any new plants this fall you plan on adding to your garden next year?
