For people like me, always searching for excitement, creative, run-with-it-without-thinking-it-through types, it takes awhile to discover what peace really is. I’m talking about the kind of peace you receive when you are working in or doing what brings you joy. I'm a hard learner. I have always been one of those people that had to try everything but never necessarily excelled in any one thing. Alas, being the person I was, I had never quite found peace, constantly searching for something more, more fun, more exciting, more interesting . . . MORE!!! I was always on to the next adventure. This morning I was telling hubby that working in my herb garden and vegetable garden and all the affiliated number of little joys I can have because of working in my gardens, brings me joy and peace. I told him, "Just imagine where I could have been or what I could have done if I had known what my joy and peace really was, when I was young." And then it hit me - I find joy and peace in what I do now because of the accumulated effect of all those years searching. I guess it would have been a whole different story if I had had a whole different personality, who knows; but it took me forever to figure out that God put me EXACTLY where I am supposed to be. Think about it . . .
Today Hubby tilled a spot up in the garden for me to plant more zucchini, spinach, arugula, lettuce and cilantro. I've got a pretty big space. I'm trying to decide if perhaps I should plant some late radishes as well. I was going to plant my seed tonight but thought better of it when I checked the garden. It's like sand out there. Hubby suggested I wait for a little rain and then he would till it again and then I could plant. I think that's what I'm going to do. I don't normally do Fall gardening. I don't know why, I just never have, but it's probably because by the time I get to a Fall planting I've done so much canning I don't even want to look at another vegetable!! Time to try something different, don't ya think?!!
UPDATE!! I could see one baby bird in the wren house and it was still alive crying for food. I have only seen one and have a suspicion that it is the only one that survived but if I find out differently I'll let you know. I also realize that just because even one of these birds is alive does not mean that it is whole or strong and can survive but I'm keeping my fingers crossed!