More Grass—and Several Weeds!
Every other Thursday, the men come to weed eat and mow this
place. Today the guy who does the weed eating listened carefully to what and where
my attention was on the front yard. Not letting him hack down my poppies and
some bluebonnets worked out fairly well. The guy on the big zero-turn managed
to mow around the bachelor buttons out in the east lots. So, all that was
really left to do was the sitting down or squatting down on my knees and
working the front flower bed. Most of the stuff is done, but those weed roots
go all the way to Timbuctoo and back. Got many pulled out or broken off, but
still need to do much more. Sat there in the dirt and thought about the times when
this job was a real pleasure. In a few days it may seem like a better job, but
for now, the old woman is sore and gripey. The weed puller upper did not work
well when applied between plants. The poppies or bachelor buttons would have come
out just as quickly as those weeds. Oh well. Maybe tomorrow will see some more
work done out there.
Visited for a few minutes with Shona. Her children have a
few days off from school, but she says that they want something to eat every
fifteen minutes. That sounds familiar. Quick and easy snacks are not the
easiest things to have around unless one buys a bushel of apples and has those
and a big jar of peanut butter! SO glad my children are grown and theirs are as
well. Keeping the dogs and these hens happy is about all the old woman can
handle. Let eight of the hens slip out the gate and scratch around out front.
They were not too difficult to get back in the yard. If a bench or chair were
out there, might just sit and watch them or read and watch them. Knowing how to
be lazy is something of an art, don’t you see!
Shona was telling me about some of the things happening in
her family while my head was nodding up and down. We agree that some of the
stuff today is right out of a soap opera. Almost every family has some drama
working out right in front of them. It can’t be easy for children in these
situations. Maybe that is one reason that not having any great-grands does not
bother me in the least. Let us get on with living and trying to be kind to others
without any extra crazy situations coming up. Children being taken by CPS,
parents going to jail, grandparents needed for rearing their grands or great-grands
are all part of the equation. Recently, learned that one of my grand nieces had
decided to cheat on her husband. How can that woman possibly be proud of
herself? Fidelity must not be in the vocabulary of some people. Can shake our
heads, but the lack of trust that such relationships cause is one of the
biggest indicators of why our nation is failing to be what it was when folks
gave their word and kept it. May God forgive us.
It must be fatigue, but thinking this evening does not seem
to produce anything of real value. My mind is concerned with children who are
left in limbo between parents and those who will take them to foster just for
the money. Some people have more empathy for lost dogs than they have for their
own children. And just like adopting strays, we realize we can’t take them all
into our homes and love that many at a time. But let us at least pray for the
little ones who are left without the assurance of a loving home life or even
someone that they can call family. May God bless them today and always.
Rest well, my friends. You are loved.