Why are there always repercussions to our actions? Why are there ripples in the pond after a stone’s throw? When we decided to redo our rose garden and eliminate the grass in our miniscule side garden, the thought fleetingly crossed my mind that our neighbor hardly had reason to continue to have lawn on his property. It was a very fleeting thought! But upon completion of our rose garden renovation, he promptly hired the man that was helping us to create flagstone pathways through our yard to install concrete on his side of the property line. Okay, I feel guilty if a twig falls from a tree 2 blocks away. And I feel responsible that our neighbor has essentially paved over a small portion of his property. Apparently, he was thinking of parking a vehicle on the new concrete. (That could be a potential eyesore.) It totally leads to run-off rather than absorption of rainwater. However, the run-off leads to my property and the closest portion isn’t paved. Okay, so I may have partially made up for the increased carbon footprint that my decision caused. I’m feeling a little better.
What did we get done this week? Not as much as I had hoped. Mitch was sick on Sunday. He actually missed work on Tuesday. It was rainy Sunday afternoon. Mitch didn’t want me working when he didn’t feel like it, so we took the day off. I finished an entire book. Okay, it was easy reading. A mystery. There were a dozen other things I could have been doing. Considering it had taken me three months to finish the previous book I was working on, having an entire day off was an amazing luxury. Now, however, we are faced with probably the last whole weekend for the next 3 months. That timeline, of course, puts us past the tour deadline. We do have a longer period of daylight in the evening. Any way you slice it, this is THE weekend to get the major projects done. After this, it is all my husband’s efforts and small additions. Can I get enough done in 2 days? Do I even have a visual concept of what I want to accomplish? I don’t really know. What I do know is after I complete the major adjustments, I need to give myself enough warm days to see what my garden will become. After that I’ll just have to add in annual color (kind of like cosmetics) to beef up the whole thing. That’s doable. Once the bones are in place, I can adapt from there. Wish me luck.
It’s also the weekend for the Chris Botti concerts. I went to high school with him. (Confession: I actually had a crush on him. What was it about me and shy, soft-spoken, sometimes gay, men?) Anyway, he’s back to perform this weekend. Whatever I do in the garden, I’m going to be enjoying his music come Saturday night.
What would Jane Austen Grow? 
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