Tag: plants

A great day

And, boy(!), did we get loads accomplished in the yard today! I had an amazing time today, taking it easy while using my physical energy to make improvements to our backyard. We added so much beauty today, it was such a blessing to be able to do it all. And it was even more of a blessing not to have to check the clock… at all. We just got to take care of things, have fun together, argue a lot about what way to do certain things (especially when one of us already had a way we were going to do it, and the other didn’t realize that), and learn to let it go and continue onward together, even when we did separate things from one another. It was just a beautiful day making beautiful things.

And, oh, yeah, it was extremely hot. One neighbor mentioned that there may even have been a heat warning… so, there’s that.

But today was such a blessing and a meditation and a working out of kinks, it was perfect.

Thank you, God, for this day. We tidied so much more than just the yard today. Thank you for all of it. Help us always to see clearly our next step to fulfill your will. In your name, I pray. Amen.

Post-a-day 2023

Exhausted

I am worn out, exhausted tonight. I still haven’t recovered fully from whatever bug I had that made my throat burn Friday night through this morning, though my throat recovered late this morning. But my body is still tired from working so hard throughout it all, and possibly still today, to fight off the bug. However, I pulled weeds of grass out of the flower bed today, and that was quite satisfying to have that completed. That’s especially so, considering that most of it was probably there from when I turned the lawn mower around while it was too close to the beds, and it shot cut grass all into the freshly planted and watered beds… So, there’s that.

I’m too tired to focus on saying anything else right now.

Goodnight, God. Thank you for the love. Heal us all, please. Amen.

Post-a-day 2023

A good day

Today was awesome for the artist retreat out on the woods. My mom attended the sessions and I hung out with nature with my ukulele. I did a crazy hike not through a creek as told to do, but meandering alongside it, practically crawling at times through the filled spaces of branches and spider webs and thorns and growing small plants all blocking the way to anywhere at all. Fortunately, I pulled out my real map that I knew worked, and found where I actually was (as opposed to where I would be, if the map I had been given had been accurate), and I found a way out of the crazy struggle against being 3D and upright in a spiky-foliage-filled forest.

After lunch, I wrote a song.

Then I drive to my aunt and uncle’s house to stay a couple days and visit my grandmother. Now, my eyes burn unbelievably, my body is a mess from exhaustion, and I must sleep.

So, gooodnight!

Post-a-day 2020

Picking leaves and drinking them

I have discovered a blessing of a drink.  It is rosemary tea.  Just steep fresh rosemary in hot water for three minutes, then pour it into a cup with honey, and enjoy it.  To me, it feels like a medicinal experience, like something that heals me when I am feeling ill.  Therefore, it brings up my spirits even more than regular tea, making the experience with it even better than just a good flavor.  And, thanks to my neighborhood having an odd abundance of rosemary, I can have this tea regularly and often.  🙂  So, yay!  And yes, I do thank the neighbors and their plants for the kind donation to my good mental and physical health. 
Post-a-day 2017