Seth Godin encourages people to write every day.  That is quite a challenge!  Yet I need to write.  I want to leave a history, of sorts, of what I do every day, where I’m investing my time as well as what’s important to me.

Gardening is really important to me.  I feel passionate about watching a seed I drop in the dirt, grow up and become a cantaloupe or seeing beans wrap their tendrils around twine that I wrapped around bamboo.  There is this connection to God because it all began in the garden. He put a man in Eden to cultivate and to keep it.

“The Lord God took the man. – The same omnipotent hand that made him still held him. “And put him into the garden.” The original word is “caused him to rest,” or dwell in the garden as an abode of peace and recreation. “To dress it and to keep it.” The plants of nature, left to their own course, may degenerate and become wild through the poverty of the soil on which they alight, or the gradual exhaustion of a once rich soil. The hand of rational man, therefore, has its appropriate sphere in preparing and enriching the soil, and in distributing the seeds and training the shoots in the way most favorable for the full development of the plant, and especially of its seed or fruits. This “dressing” was needed even in the garden. The “keeping” of it may refer to the guarding of it by enclosure from the depredations of the cattle, the wild beasts, or even the smaller animals. It includes also the faithful preservation of it as a trust committed to man by his bounteous Maker. There was now a man to till the soil. The second need of the world of plants was now supplied. Gardening was the first occupation of primeval man.”  ~Barnes Notes on the Bible

I’m just stewarding what He does.

I believe gardening, caring for animals and stewarding the property we have is honoring to Him.  And it makes me happy, too.  But there’s more…

Jef made a comment to me last week that’s rocked my world.  He said, “You need to invest in that garden (and all you do) like,  “We either eat from that garden or we die.” I know my Love didn’t mean that literally.  Well, maybe he did. But the point is to take it seriously.  Do all I do like it’s my job because it is.

 

There will be so much beauty here in about a month or so…sunflowers everywhere. I’ve planted them in every bed.

 

This is what happens when one accidentally dumps ALL the beet seeds in one spot.  Sigh.

This is the ‘before photo’ of the garden.  The raised beds are gonna be enclosed by a pallet fence. We finally staked out the perimeter on Sat. before it got dark and covered the stakes from Winston by lawn chairs!  Doesn’t look pretty YET, but it will.  I have a dream!

Baby steps…

The beans took off in the aquaponic tank, so I moved them to the beds and was pleasantly surprised when my F-I-L came out to help.  Together, we created a trellis made from last year’s bamboo.

It may be time to get a new bowl for the birds, but I think it’s kinda rustic and besides, I have two more in the yard, along with the pond (which desperately needs work too).

My goal is to practice discipline in the dirt, on the keyboard, and in my sewing shop.

Because it’s foggy and misty outside, it’s a good day for getting organized.

Until tomorrow…