Tunnel vision
I like to think I'm a bit broad minded and able sometimes to see things from more than one perspective. It's a gift that's helped me too many times to count when I've figured out how to do things, or take things apart and fix them.
Sometimes, though, I don't see the forest for the trees and need a little bit of nudging. Today is a little bit like that.
I have lots of work to do around here this weekend. Most of my Memorial Day weekend will be spent in the yard and working on the truck. I have brakes to change before I get it inspected next week. I have all of the tools to do them and the manual for my truck, so I'm all good to go. I've done them before which doesn't hurt either. I have a pool to clean out. I have to finish working the soil so I can get the garden planted. I'd like to install a new pole for the hammock, which I'd like to enjoy some this summer. Then there are the flower beds.
I would like to mow the lawn today. I am, however, out of gasoline. I also am out of funds to purchase gasoline. The pool vacuum did not survive the winter. The pool skimmer broke. I need pool chemicals. I keep rinsing and re-using the pool filter which is doing yeoman's work in getting the pool in shape for 2014. The pool will have to wait.
I also am a one-man-band. It gets overwhelming.
So, I thought, I'm out of gas, and I don't have anything to do because of it. And then I remembered the flower beds and the fact that among the things I own is a shovel and an electric hedge clipper. I also own hand loppers. Lots of things don't require gasoline to get done.
The flowerbed on the side yard is weeded. The plants we planted there are really thriving! I had snapdragons survive the winter and come back. The rose and lilac bushes are doing their collective things, and the dogwood we planted on the corner of the house is growing like a weed! I'm pleased with the side yard. The front yard flower beds are a different story, but manageable. Me and Miss June have to come to a decision about lamb's ear.
It's gotta go!
Last year, June planted a ton of lilies. Some of them are coming back but they're so small you'd never see them for the lamb's ear. It has a purpose... it attracts lots of honeybees, but it's also very intrusive. The stuff will grow absolutely anywhere and takes over the spaces where you plant it.
Sometimes I forget that the best ways to do things aren't always powered by fossil fuels. I have my little electric tiller I can use, too. Not now though, because it's getting a might cloudy out there. It looks like rain!
After all, it is Memorial Day weekend in Utah. We're lucky we don't have snow!
Sometimes, though, I don't see the forest for the trees and need a little bit of nudging. Today is a little bit like that.
I have lots of work to do around here this weekend. Most of my Memorial Day weekend will be spent in the yard and working on the truck. I have brakes to change before I get it inspected next week. I have all of the tools to do them and the manual for my truck, so I'm all good to go. I've done them before which doesn't hurt either. I have a pool to clean out. I have to finish working the soil so I can get the garden planted. I'd like to install a new pole for the hammock, which I'd like to enjoy some this summer. Then there are the flower beds.
I would like to mow the lawn today. I am, however, out of gasoline. I also am out of funds to purchase gasoline. The pool vacuum did not survive the winter. The pool skimmer broke. I need pool chemicals. I keep rinsing and re-using the pool filter which is doing yeoman's work in getting the pool in shape for 2014. The pool will have to wait.
I also am a one-man-band. It gets overwhelming.
So, I thought, I'm out of gas, and I don't have anything to do because of it. And then I remembered the flower beds and the fact that among the things I own is a shovel and an electric hedge clipper. I also own hand loppers. Lots of things don't require gasoline to get done.
The flowerbed on the side yard is weeded. The plants we planted there are really thriving! I had snapdragons survive the winter and come back. The rose and lilac bushes are doing their collective things, and the dogwood we planted on the corner of the house is growing like a weed! I'm pleased with the side yard. The front yard flower beds are a different story, but manageable. Me and Miss June have to come to a decision about lamb's ear.
It's gotta go!
Last year, June planted a ton of lilies. Some of them are coming back but they're so small you'd never see them for the lamb's ear. It has a purpose... it attracts lots of honeybees, but it's also very intrusive. The stuff will grow absolutely anywhere and takes over the spaces where you plant it.
Sometimes I forget that the best ways to do things aren't always powered by fossil fuels. I have my little electric tiller I can use, too. Not now though, because it's getting a might cloudy out there. It looks like rain!
After all, it is Memorial Day weekend in Utah. We're lucky we don't have snow!
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