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Even my wedding band has a garden theme

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You know, I was just trying to decide how long I’ve been interested in gardening and I’ve decided that to some degree, I must have had an interest even as a young child. I can remember helping my parents in our home gardens and at the two gardens we had at our cottage. I might have complained a bit about it every now and then, but once I got working helping to pull the weeds or planting seeds and watching the new plants grow I discovered that I actually enjoyed what I was doing.

Chris and I have beautiful wedding bands, and even these I realize have a bit of a garden theme to them. Well my band does anyway.

We didn’t go the route of choosing wedding rings the way most couples do. Chris and I were both jewelers at the time – not sellers of jewelry but the people who actually make jewelry. It’s very bad luck for jewelers to make their own wedding bands, so as a gift, our brother in law who was also a jeweller, hand crafted our beautiful bands on his own as a gift to us.

We did have input into the design- thank goodness! Mine does have a garden theme it’s a concave gold band with hand carved grape vine and grape leaves intertwined around the whole band. Small emeralds and diamonds alternate around the band between the grape leaves. It’s beautiful. I wanted emeralds in my band because I felt they gave me a tie to nature.

Chris band is convex yellow gold with a strip of white platinum encircling the middle of the band. It’s very nice, but sorry no garden theme to his band.

Even though we didn’t choose our wedding bands the traditional way, we did have a traditional wedding. However, we did get a friend to do the flowers and decorations for the pews as she was working at a fantastic flower shop at the time.

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Gardening in the dark

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I think that I’ve mentioned more than a few times here that I often tend to do a good portion of my gardening work at night. Why? Because my snoopy old lady neighbor who is very lonely follows me around and makes my gardening work hell ’cause it takes me at least three times longer to get anything done when she’s outside watching me.

I love the dear girl but I’d rather sit and have a tea with her before or after I get my gardening done.

There have been times when I’ve gone outside and planted new plants in the dark. My husband holding a big halogen light so I could see.

Now I’m starting to think of less obvious ways to garden in the dark. What about a headlamp flashlight? This would be helpful too if I’m gathering earthworms for the compost or another area of soil in the garden too.

I came across a company called Opticsplanet.net and they sell streamlight flashlights, as well as a number of other brands such as Surefire and Pelican. They have everything from the headlamp flashlight I was fantasizing about earlier, to LED flashlights, pocket, gun mount lights, and flash light accessories. The company also offers discount pricing and free UPS on orders over $29.95 so I think I might just spend a bit of time over there browsing and see if I can come up with a way to light my garden as I work and defeat my nosy neighbor.

I haven’t put my garden to bed yet!

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Slap me! I’ve got bulbs to plant and bushes to trim, perennials to cut down and a whole garden to put to bed for the winter. The weather was pretty nice here all week too.

Did I get any gardening done? Nope!

Now watch, I’ll find time sometimes to get all that work done- and believe me- it is work as it take 3 to 5 days to properly get everything away, trimmed, mulched and covered for winter, and the weather will turn cold on me. God forbid it will probably snow.

Won’t I be the fool for not getting it done earlier when I should have?

I can’t help it though. I just don’t feel well lately and the thought of going out there and doing all that stuff is too much for me right now. If I don’t feel better soon there’s a chance that a good portion of it won’t get done properly either. Oh my husband will do his share but he doesn’t really know everything that has to be done. He always helps me but I’m the team leader in the garden.

Fingers crossed that the weather holds for a few days more so I can get the gumption to get out there and do the work that needs to be done!

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