“If you know any gardeners then you know that their gardens tend to resemble them. That person with a clean car, an integrated Google calendar, and a Dave Ramsey budget has a garden with perfect borders, straight rows, and neat plant markers. The person who pulls an outfit from the pile of clean laundry on the couch, leaves the plastic bags inside the cereal box ripped and gaping, and is always (at least) 10 minutes late has a garden with overflowing beds, a haphazard color scheme and some of last year’s dried husks still hanging from the trellis. It’s all OK–the garden does not judge (even if the neighbors do). The garden makes every effort to thrive where it is planted, which is probably a good life lesson for all of us.”
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Riddle from the Middle 
Well that explains MY garden. It’s messy, there’s weeds and a dead bush I need to remove. All I need is some energy, a stronger back, some ‘wind’ (so I can breathe) and aw heck. I’ll just hire someone. Despite my family (who could come do the work but won’t. I didn’t ask to be fair) saying hiring someone is too expensive. And the neighbors? Can go fly. Someone around here (nobody will own up) has planted some petunias in my neglected planter though. Those are grand! 🙂
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Bonus petunias! That sounds like a neighborly thing to do…
I hear you on the garden. Every once in a while I get on a tear and try to do something with these flowerbeds I’ve inherited but think I may have ended up weeding out actual plants in the end (the poor woman who lived here before us must cry when she drives past the house).
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I find it funny that the tomatoes that I did not plant this year but are left over from tomatoes dropped last year are doing better that the plant that I am babying. Its sad.
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So sad! I’ve attempted a garden (and I use that term loosely) only twice. It was less than successful. We’re talking negative numbers here. 😆
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LOL, so funny. Coming from the south it is a must to plant tomatoes. Even if poorly done. I have gotten 2 tomatoes all year. So sad.
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I am so much like you. One of my favorite things a parent in my room told me, (she had 3 young adopted children), was that she dumps all the clean laundry on the floor and everyone just climbs though and finds and outfit to wear to school that day. I love this so much
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The ultimate in practicality. I was instantly more relaxed once I stopped expecting my kids to fold and put away their clothes. You don’t mind the wrinkles? Okay then, I won’t worry about those clothes getting shoved in your drawers.
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Back in the day, I had a neat garden. Back in the day. Before I got older and my body parts became less cooperative. Now, I have gardens like a sloppy person would have, but I do not pull clean clothes off a pile, and if I had boxes of cereal, they would be neatly closed to try to preserve whatever freshness might exist. Although – it often takes a day or so to get those clean clothes put in their proper places, all neat and tidy.
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As I type this there is a pile of clean towels to be folded on the coffee table & 2 loads of clean clothes waiting on the dining room table. Last night the cat romped through the towels so I’ll have to do a de-hair dryer fluff, & I’ll end up running a de-wrinkle on a few of those shirts. I’m betting you can imagine what any garden I attempted would look like (despite my deep love of color coordinated calendars). 😆
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