Gardening Gabble

To Nurture a Garden:

 

is to not just to feed the body.......

 The glory of gardening:

hands in the dirt,

 head in the sun,

heart in nature.

.......but feed the soul as well.

                                           Alfred Austin

 

A Job well done

Some rainbow lorikeets decided to visit- such great chatter
boxes and such flighty natures. 

     From My Garden

I find that it is much easier to do a good job while I am doing things, rather than do a shoddy one and have to fix it later.
I think that is called having pride in one's achievements.

Today is the first day of the rest of my life.
 I still have 100% of my life left to live.





My Mum used to say 'if something is worth doing, it's worth doing properly'. And for someone who was never going to be like her Mother, I've done a good job at looking like her in "my living longer" years and living up to lots of her sayings, which I am very good at quoting I must say.

And I'm always saying  'why spend all that time doing something the wrong way when you can spend the same amount of time doing it the right way!'

 A story I love to tell is that one of our kids would be asked to tidy up his room.... and he would - and his room would be spotless. And a week or so later I would go right into his room to put away folded clothes, or some such thing, and all the tidy would be stacked up behind his chest of drawers where I couldn't see it from the doorway. And he would have been given praise for a job well done. How long it must have taken him to stack that mess there when it could have taken the same amount of time to put the things where they went.
Gives us all a good laugh now he is grown up and hopefully knows the value of time.
Another of my sayings is " the time wasted, is life wasted. We can't get it back.'

Today was church day- Father Dan's last day. Father John will be back from his travel to Vietnam.
Father Dan spoke about how we can spend some time with God each day. He gave us 3 suggestions:
1. To look in every day life at the good things we have in our life, to look for the good in people.
2. To spend 5 minutes reading the word. To listen to what God is trying to tell us through the Word. Quite often that is explained in the weekly sermon.
3. And to spend some time in prayer or spiritual mediatation.
 And I thought, how easy is that!

I'm with God when I listen to people talk and hear the goodness in there living.
I am at church and I am with other good people listening to the Word and understanding God's message to me.
I am at home peeling the potatoes and can pray for my sick friend, or a thank you prayer for a good day or the sunshine or a great family.

So I can spend time with God no matter what I am doing. How wonderful!

I have completed my project part of the day doing my most favourite gardening chore - pruning. I can't wait for the new leaves to start sprouting once spring is here. That is my reward for the time I spend in the garden. 
I hope your day has been as happy as mine and that you too did your most favourite thing today.C

I know that if I am to participate in the game of life I really must appreciate each very special moment of it.

A surprising Day

Today is the first day of the rest of my life.

My mind is filled with healthy, positive, loving thoughts that reflect themselves in all my experiences.

Peacefuul, positive,productive.

One never knows what a new day brings.

 Little did I know, when I got up this morning, that a kookaburra would have to be rescued out of our fireplace. A number of times earlier in the morning, when I was doing a declutter in my card making and knitting baskets, I heard a fluttering noise coming from the fireplace. But no amount of looking showed us what it was. So we forgot about it for the time being.

We went up to our nearest big town to a chiropractor appointment, some op- shopping, bag shopping, and the dreaded DENTIST appointment to have 2 more teeth filled. I shouldn't moan. My dentist is so gentle. The only hard part was having a numb lip and ear and jaw for a few hours.

After lunch we were preparing to go out to mow and I heard the fluttering again. This time I could see a Kookaburra trapped and fluttering in the fire space. Well,  I closed the hall door and opened the front door, and when the mesh was taken from the front of the fire the bird flew straight out of the front door. Didn't envision it would be so easy. I imagined a sooty bird flying aimlessly around our living room putting soot all over our furniture.

I've been lucky enough to spend time in my garden again today, doing my favourite task of pruning - this time in the area around the cactus garden. The trailer is full of clippings again.
I also undercoated the lamp shade for standard lamp that we bought in Mackay the year before last. Yes I've finally got started on that project! And I brought a peace lily plant in and put it in the bathroom. It should grow well in there. It is a lovely bright room. I have plants growing in my kitchen window quite successfully, and the bathroom window faces the same way. So I'm presuming success here as well.

Tonight we will be watching" Who Do You Think You Are"

 I have started a new book: "The Faraday Girls" by Monica MacInerny.

What was good today?
Spending time in the garden; Having the holes in my teeth filled; doing a good mow; getting a new project underway.

What I was grateful for today.
The kookaburra flew straight out of the door instead of flying round our living area.

God In My Life
Nice caring dentist (eventhough he wants to sell me crowns that I can't afford), nice caring chiropractor(she likes Louise Hay too).

Time to cook the dinner- left over stirfry from last night, yum!

Peace be with all the world. C

Another Sunny Sunday

Today is the first day of the rest of my life.

I am a
radiant being,
enjoying life to the fullest.

Wow! I had the very best sleep last night. How I managed that I do not know. But I feel absolutely refreshed and wonderful. 

Had to dash off to church. My foster daughter had to be picked up on the way. So needed to leave a little earlier than usual. Today as well as being the 4th Sunday after Easter it is also the Sunday of the Good Shepherd, and the 5th Sunday of the month. Today we sang the gorgeous psalm "The Lord is My Shepherd", which always brings tears to my eyes. We had a very big congregation which is so wonderful for our little church. Today Danielle rang the bell for the consecration. That hasn't happened in a very long time. It makes it so much more holy when the bell is rung. Since we no longer have altar servers the bell ringing has not been happening. It was a lovely change.

We went to morning tea after church. There was a big roll up there too - 2 tables of people- which is very good indeed. Savoury muffins, and scones, jam and cream, were the yummy fare this morning, provided by different women in our church each week after 9.30am. Mass. (I was good. I only had a cup of coffee). A nice chance for like minded people to get together. This morning they held a birthday celebration for Michael's 80th birthday.

 This afternoon I took in shorts and undies. Since so much weight has been lost, pants don't stay up. Did another page of my son's scrapbook I am doing for his birthday. I need to hurry to get it done by the end of May. I won't have any more time after that. Each page takes a very long time to do, from choosing photos, having them printed up, decorating the page in the theme of that page. I really like doing scrapbooking. But the job is always fraught with memories and tears of happy times past. But that is all  part of doing such a project. And... I even got some time in the garden. I started to weed my cactus garden. I should have taken my secateurs with me to cut away some of the jungle- well, next time, maybe. 

I watched a replay of "New Tricks" while I sewed.

What was good today?
The sunshine, the morning tea with nice people, good conversation, gardening, scrapbooking

What I was grateful for today:
A good night's sleep. Danielle ringing the bell at church reviving an old tradition.

God in my life.
Going to church, being with like minded people, singing, prayer and my 'little white book'

And so to end another positive, productive day. Peace to all and to all a good night. C

At Week's End

Hello, World!
 Today is the first day of the rest of my life.

I am grateful for being alive today. It is a joy and pleasure to live another wonderful day.

Well, it's been another very good day.
The weather has been overcast and we've had some rain. But it hasn't prevented anything from happening. Even the local show is still in progress. Lots of cars still there. So the spirits of the show goers haven't been dampened.

 Our workout at gym was a huge success. I improved on my last performance there. So that's something to be delighted with. Sarah joined up with a gym membership. She has lost a bit of weight. So here's hoping that will continue for her. Our only disappointment for the day was that the shoe shop wasn't open to get Sarah new runners, but we can fit that in later in the week.

 We got all our projects for the day finished. The first one was the gym workout. The second was to mow the grass at the garage... all done and dusted. A really great mow. The third one was to iron all the clothes in the ironing basket. Got that done too and watched the movie"Gosford Park" at the same time. How's that for 'killing two birds with one stone'? Or is that being multi-tasked! And the fourth one was to attend a combined Church Parish meeting- Nanango and Kingaroy Parishes. That was pretty successful too. Good part was seeing old friends and meeting new people.

At the end of my day I watched" New Tricks" on TV. Some fuddy duddy old fogies who solve cold cases
 I am reading "Blood Orchids" by  Toby Neal on my E -Reader
It's a murder mystery set in Hawaii
What was good today?
My session at the gym, and getting all my planned projects completed

What I am grateful for today
That I remained positive for the most part

God in my life
Good health, happy in the moment, varied day, PPC meeting, Prayer

And now to bed to continue to read my book and to have a good night's sleep.
God bless this wonderful world. Please send peace to all countries in the world. C