I’m having one of those sleepy days. It’s torture just getting the lunch dishes done. I’m glad that since retirement, I’ve morphed from a night owl into a lark. I’m up early, bright eyed and bushy tailed. I like to get stuff done and out of the way. That way, if I crash later, like today, the whole day is not wasted. So, this morning I’ve washed and frozen the picked haskaps and strawberries. I’ve also filled the 3 raised garden beds in the front yard with water from our rain catchment. While they were getting filled, I delt with some of those aggressive creeping blue bells. The end of them is within sight. It might take another year or 2 to rid half the front yard of them. I’m learning a different kind of patience.

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It’s taking me a long time to come back to finish this post I started on the 17th. Now June is almost over. July and the Ultimate Blog Challenge is only 3 sleeps away. My metamorphosis has been hindered and halted by procrastination. Finding time and energy for thoughts and words is not easy during gardening season. When thoughts, words and such are tough, I head out to weed, water and plant. There’s an endless supply of weeds. I never run out. Weeding is in a way, mindless though my mind is always full of thoughts. Though I have had a few illuminating thoughts while weeding, they’ve never turn into words and sentences. Perhaps I should jot them down as they hit me.

I’m not disappointed in June nor myself though. I’ve hit some peaks as well as some valleys. My garden spaces all have done well. The greenhouse had slowed but now it is soaring again. I have a few cucumbers and bittermelons fruiting. They and the Sweet One Million Tomato are supporting and holding each other up. It would be nice if we human beings could do the same. Seeing how productive this symbiotic relationship is, I try a littel harder to be supportive rather than contrary.

Though the weather has been erratic and unsettling, the yard and garden spaces have never looked so beautiful. I am proud of my efforts and hard work.

I’m almost out of words and thoughts. Though I’ve only shown up for these almost a handful of times, June has been a successful month of metamorphosis. I have somehow changed a little for the better. And I am still evolving. More to come in July.