Mixed Nuts: I would post pictures

Quotes

"There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark." - Helen Keller
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." ~Erma Bombeck
You may never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.- Unknown
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow' ~Helen Keller
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."- Dr. Seuss
"Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you react to it."
"God doesn't give children with disabilities to strong people: He gives them to ordinary, everyday people, then He helps the parents to grow stronger through the journey. Raising a child with special needs doesn't TAKE a special family, it MAKES a special family."Author Unknown
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go – Abraham Lincoln
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~ Benjamin Franklin
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle - Albert Einstein
The journey of a 1000 miles starts with a single step
Sometimes in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives you a fairy tale
Where there is great love, there are always miracles - Willa Cather
The Difficult we can do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer
Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.
Be the change you want to see in the world
Don't tell God how big the storm is, tell the storm how big Your God is..........
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it
Fall down seven times - get up eight - unknown
Despite our differences, we sink or swim together
Life may not be the party we expected, but while we are here, we might as well dance
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." -Confucius

Friday, May 11, 2012

I would post pictures

If I could move myself off the couch. I am lucky I am moving my arms after two solid days of working in the yard. I am out of shape. Or......I am doing things I shouldn't.

Either way - the camera is in the office, and that is not a place I am walking to at the moment.

I love working in the yard. It is great to soak up the vitamin D and watch what was a chaos of a front yard turn into a beautiful oasis.

But then I walk around the back of the house, and my smile disappears. What.a.mess. Weeds, leaves, poison ivy, long grass, and all kinds of chaos. I have tried to start to work on it, but I could spend 6 or 7 hours back there and it hardly looks different. I know it is a slow process but my goodness.

The people who lived here before us didn't put chemicals on their yard. The did organic gardening, which is fine. But unfortunately, it lead to out of control weeds and lots and lots of grubs which ate the grass. I wish I would have taken pictures of the backyard before I started to even touch it. Maybe then I would realize how much we actually have done.

So......I walk away from the back yard (after collecting about 35 more Jack in the Pulpit plants from around the edges of the woods), and go back to work in the front. Try to figure out what will grow under pine trees (not much), and where I planted some bulbs so that I don't accidentally dig them up. I look at how much progress we have made in the front and how I have it just about exactly how I want it. And I forget about the back.

At least for a little while.