Four Years

Today is the fourth anniversary of my surgery.

The last four years have been challenging, fun, hard and happy. I could not be in a better place in my life.

I am so very happy.

Update from the garden

Hello Everyone,

The garden is really popping now, so much so that we have had Rhubarb tarts tonight for dessert.

This is my very favorite time of year, everything is doing it's thing, getting ready to take off and feed me wonderful things. I was very excited again this year and have done my best to hold off and not plant out too early. This was very difficult for me last year and I started my seeds to soon and ended up losing most of them. Planting twice tends not to be very economical, so I have done my best to waaaaiiiit.

There are also some experiments going out there. I have wanted to plant potatoes in a container ever since I heard about it two years ago and finally decided to go for it. D got me 2 large food grade containers from his work and cut the top off them. I drilled some holes in the bottom and put in some rocks for drainage, put them up on blocks and added some soil and compost to the bottom. I put about 5 or 6 of my potato chunks in the bottom and covered it with some more soil and compost. As the plants grow up you continue to add soil and compost, just leaving the tops of the plant showing. When the plant flowers you can put your hand in and feel around for some early spuds. When the plant dies back, you have a container full of spuds.

* I cut my seed potatoes into chunks with at least 2 eyes on each piece a few days before planting and leave in a cool, dry place

Now I wait to see what will happen!

I have included a picture of the spud buckets, the Rhubarb and one shot of how I like to start the day before heading out to move dirt and mow all that grass again. :)

Groove on!

Happy Easter

Hello

It's Easter this weekend and I wanted to take the opportunity to wish you all the very best.

Things are all well and starting to pop in the garden. The seedlings are planting and growing. The weeds are pulled and the beds are ready. If we could get mother nature to play along, well that would be dandy.

I have been doing a ton of crafting and down home type of work these past few months. I have been busy making greeting cards from a bunch of my old images and putting them on paper I have made at home from my bills. :) I could never find the card stock I wanted to I decided to make my own. They have gone over really well and have been selling since before Christmas. You can check them and the rest of my work out on my site below

Mic's Media

Anyways, hope you all have a very relaxing weekend and enjoy all that chocolate.

Ok

Ok, so I am home again and loving it. Bored out of my mind and spending way too much time on Facebook. The fact is that D is wonderful and got me a new camera and flash for Christmas but it has been soooo foggy here, I can't see my hand in front of my face. It is so strange. My mail from the mailbox is damp... It's like a big wet blanket on the city. I think I need to get to higher ground :)

Itching to get out with the new gear. Trying really hard to get unstuck from the routine that involves nothing and accomplishes even less. I have customer orders for cards to make but I am still stuck in my Christmas rut lol. Is the holiday over... oh, I didn't know.

So now I have to get to work. Make some money. Learn how to use this new equipment. I am excited to get going, I am excited for spring and growing and green... Now if I could just huff and puff and blow this fog away?

Birthday Eve

Well, I am getting older! Yup given the option, I am pretty pleased about it too.

This will be a forward moving year.

Happy Year Everyone.

Time

Today was D's 40th Birthday! Happy Birthday D

As I sat alone in a dark theater watching a movie about time, it was difficult given my sullen mood, not to reflect on time well spent and time that is wasted. We have so little of it... we can not hold it or collect it. Time never belongs to us, it is only ours to borrow.

I feel so torn, so at a cross roads yet again. My birthday is coming, the year is ending. I understand this all very rationally but that has very little to do with anything.

When I was young, I took a business course so that if my singing career ever failed, I would have something to fall back on. I find it sad that I just fell back and stayed there. I was given chance after chance to make the changes. Big chance too! I am in the middle to a chance right now...

Tomorrow I hope will be a brighter day, the end of a year. Maybe the start of something new.

My horoscope told me to make a change, not a big one but a change, it said "Go to the same store but try on a different colour" I like that...

Where the hell...

Where, What, When, you know, the regular lost my way questions. Ok, so something big is about to happen, or not. My life is about to really change, or not. I may get to spend my time doing what I love, or not.

So my last blog was about wishing away, so I decided to stop. I changed jobs in a big way. I have been an office type for about 20 years and I began to realize that I was not getting any younger or happier. D and I had some chats about it and a decision was made to make a big change. Since I have been feeling so well for a while now and have fallen for the gardening thing, I chose to go work at a wholesale nursery (plants, not babies) :P . I was expecting it to be a great place to be but found that it was just not my thing. More moving plant pots around than getting my hands in the dirt I guess. Then there was all that talk about accounting help and such! So, I stayed a month and then I bailed. Not my usual MO but I just didn't want to go there any more and so I didn't.

So, I have been sitting here for 2 and a half weeks trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. Of coarse me being me, I have to pick myself apart first. What is wrong with me, 37 is to old for this shit. Get back to work and behave like an adult... I just don't want to... I can't anymore. Spoiled, yes but that is just the way it is right now.

I want to take pictures... I want to be creative. Not everyone does portraits all the time right? I like to shoot things that don't talk back. Product, animals, flowers, bugs and weeds... as you know. How do I do that? How?

Can't wait to see how this one ends... I hope it's not with my ass back in an office chair... But I guess that is up to me.

Yikes!