Tweaking my garden

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housekeeping, outside, plants, postaday2014

I had written on Monday that we were going to have rainy weather for the rest of the week, but apparently the weather people were mistaken so I have used all of these wonderful days at home to work as much in my garden as I could because I’ll be back on the road soon with my husband.

The tweaking that I mean is the replacement of a dead Japonica shrub with a live Azalea and the new placement of the other new Azalea in the side garden in the back, I dug up the blackberry shrub and another random spreading shrub and I placed the new Azalea in its place.

I also wound up with a blank slate in the upper garden so I planted one of my new plants Speedwell Veronica

I am thinking that it will make a wonderful addition to the top tier and I look forward to see how it will blend in with my other plants. The tweaking isn’t done, not by a long shot, I have some serious housekeeping to do, the vinca ground cover that I had planted has done very well in most places, but in certain places the vinca has gone completely hog wild and has started strangling out other plants, so like I said there is some major housekeeping that needs to be done, maybe over the weekend.

Dreams and their unintended consequences

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angst, dreams, housekeeping, moods, physical labor, postaday2012, stress mangement

Have you ever had a dream that shook you all day long?  I had a dream last night that came out of nowhere, actually I shouldn’t say nowhere, but rather from the deep recesses of my emotional pysche that left me shaken, unsettled and angst ridden. Most everyone carries emotional scars but generally speaking, they don’t affect your day to day, normally scars means that they have been put away and you get on with your life. But when they come to the surface unbidden, accidentally in a dream, it really throws you for a loop. I think it’s because you are ill prepared for how scars can still inflict pain.

The means by which I deal with angst or if I am out of sorts is by physical labor. Thus today, since it is getting chilly, I decided to take out the three air conditioners from the windows and bring them back up into the attic. I find physical labor is the best method for me personally to dissipate feelings of stress, anger or anxiety. However, maybe I should specify, that even as I hold to this stress management technique, my house is not an impeccable showplace. Thankfully these feelings don’t assail me too often so my housekeeping skills don’t get applied as assiduously as one would think.

I am hoping that tonight I will dream nice pleasant dreams and wake up with my usual optimistic outlook. It is so much nicer looking at a glass half full than seeing it as half empty.