Type and Dream
Written by admin on May 16th, 2008I have really enjoyed my job today. I cannot explain it, but a part of me has been restored. I’ll stop with that thought. It takes knowing all the ins and outs of where I’ve been and what we’ve been through to understand.
The sunlight coming into my office window was just the right amount this morning. Not too bright. Just enough to boost my sense of well being. I don’t like getting a tan, but I do enjoy being outside and getting indirect sunlight. I’m too fair to be trying to tan!
I take two 15-minute breaks and a half-hour lunch on each 8-1/2-hour work day. It is so nice to be able to step out into the garden during those times. I was starving during my first break, having skipped breakfast to continue on a little longer with my green tea, so I ate voraciously during my first break!
During my lunch, I actually potted up a pale pink petunia. Miss Petunia was quite the match for a worn-out enamelware pot. The pot was what I’d been using to collect food scraps by the kitchen sink for years. A hole finally wore into the bottom of it. It’s a planter now.
The view from the steps where I ate my lunch is, of course, my little garden. It’s amazing how quickly this bed is filling in and becoming a little mini-jungle. I remember when it was mostly bare mulch in the center.
And the wild grapevine on this thing just gets bigger and bigger. I must get some traps for controlling Japanese beetles that will soon arrive to shred its leaves.
This red rose was all wet with rain and beautiful this morning.
And this very young astilbe plant seems to be thriving. I can’t wait to see it in 2 or 3 years.
The chocolate mint — rising up behind the old sundial — is quietly creeping out of its original little plot. Lucky for chocolate mint that I like it. I’m sure by this summer I’ll be pulling out huge armfuls of it. And then again next spring, Lord willing, I’ll be glad to see the chocolate mint proliferating again. It’s a yearly cycle that chocolate mint and I go through.
As far as my title, “type and dream,” it’s truly an exercise of the mind to be able to stay put for 8 hours. It’s good for a person to think, and 8 hours is a lot of thinking.
I must be off to bed. Tomorrow is a medical transcription day!
Lynn
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Beautiful pictures Lynn! How nice to be able to plant petunias on you lunch break!
Last year I bought chocolate mint for the first time.. when you get the chance, could you blog about what/how you use it?
Happy Saturday- Michele
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Thanks Michele! It would be a great idea for me to blog more about what I do with my plants. I’ll try to do that soon. How is your chocolate mint doing? I really enjoyed visiting your garden last night!
Lynn
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Hi Lynn - do you ever contain your running herbs such as mint? Perhaps you have enough garden space to allow them their freedom, which is great. I have mint which is planted in an old English clay chimney pot - it stays right in the corner by the house - however a shrub is towering over it now - think it needs more sun and will have to move!
I would love some of that chocolate mint when you pull it up, pretty please!!!!
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Oh, I’ll be happy to send some your way! Want to meet some time at some great garden center and have lunch? It would be fun to meet. I can also bring you some apple mint from the NC Mountains. It’s lovely.
I do contain some things, like my horsetail. I do NOT want that stuff going wild. I am currently trying to get rid of polygonum and gooseneck loosestrife, two horrible mistakes, but I think I’ll eventually get rid of it. The mint doesn’t bother me too much. I just pull it out when it gets to be too much. The other two I mentioned, though, they are scary!!
Lynn