Being a normally active person, this health issue has created obstacles for me. I want to do all the things I did before, take care of my home and my family. I miss cooking and cleaning. I know that sounds crazy, but I do miss doing it. I miss making my home beautiful and comfortable for my family. I miss making wonderful meals for them. I miss doing my own laundry.
Finding things I can do vs just sitting in a damn chair and crocheting. While I love to crochet, I've burned myself out on it. I still have many things I want to make, but I need something else too. We went to the Home Depot yesterday after my doctors appointments. And decided I want to try my hand at growing flowers. Everyone else is working hard on getting all the vegetables ready for when the green house goes up. (just waiting for snow to melt). Living in the mountains we have a very short growing season. So we have started tons of seeds in pots in the house (kitchen). Everything from Tomatoes to Peppers to Watermelons and squashes and all stuff in between. (my favorite is the beets...lol)
We have this wonderful trellis that Greg (my partner) and I made a couple years ago. We cut tons of willow branches (had to clear some out anyway so re-purposed them) and put them on the trellis, while it looks very cool, and even some of the willows have rooted and started producing leaves last year, I really wanted it to take on a live of its own. We we bought a large honeysuckle plant yesterday (blooms will be in pinks).
I will get more of course, but this is a start, so when the weather gets nice I will have well established plants to put in the ground by the trellis. I am also considering seeing if I can clone from it too. The goal is to have the entire trellis covered in honeysuckle. It is a perennial so will come back every year. I wanted to do moon flowers but they are annuals, so won't work for what I'm trying to do.
I did get some moon flower, morning glory and columbine seeds. They are current soaking in water to plant this after noon. The columbines ones established good will be planted out in our woods in the area I call Summerland. It is a place of remembering loved ones who have passed to the other side of the veil. Not a cemetery but a place to remember the joy of their lives. I have a half log I worked on a couple years ago, I will finish into a bench and I want to make a small trellis to go over it...may put honeysuckles there too. I also want to plant some yellow rose bushes out there for my mom. She loved yellow roses...and a lilac bush. I'm not sure how it will go. The area does have a opening in the forest canopy for the sun to shine down on it.
I've never been known for a green thumb, but Pat (my other partner) is there to help me so my flowers will all blossom. This is something I can do from a chair...and I get help with the things I have a hard time doing. I'm so excited to do this.. Pictures to follow...lol
Bright blessings for a wonderful day...
Barbara
