Planning For Tomorrow

My thinking is rambling and jumbled and it would be hard to put into words all the things in my mind.  Sometimes I wonder if it’s an overabundance of words.  Sometimes I wonder if I am running out of words.  Anyway, I’ll start with a little thought about not wasting anything in these days of higher costs for just about everything.

I am out of my greens and whey, a health drink I like to drink every morning with milk.  I was going to go shopping today and buy a new canister full, but then I remembered two large bags of fruit in my freezer that do not seem to be getting eaten.  How can I let them get covered in freezer burn while I am out wasting gas and buying more greens and whey?  For however many days it takes, I’ll be having a milk and fruit smoothie for breakfast.  I think it would do my children good too.

I am not sure you can even make out the borders of my veggie garden anymore.  There’s a raspberry taking over in one corner and maybe 17,000 garlic chive plants throwing out more seeds even as I write.  It’s a good useful spot, though, so I am getting it cleaned up for a fall planting of greens and lettuces.  With any luck I’ll have some things for part of October and November anyway.  We also need to trim some trees as it’s getting pretty shady around the garden again.

I have let some of the green beans get way too large and stringy, but I think shelled they may do fine.  If not, maybe I can save them dried for seeds for next year.

Butterflies always make me rush in for the camera.  A butterfly is one of the most beautiful things in all of creation.  Watching butterflies is free.  Talking about them and drawing them makes for a free school lesson.

I love the white spots on this one’s body.

Fluffy and her growing-up kitten Oreo climbing in a tree this  morning.  Would you be interested to know that I woke up this morning to the pitter-patter sound of little feet on our tin roof?  Oreo had climbed into a tree, jumped onto the roof and then could not get down.  Do you know who had to take a ladder out and coax her down?

Uh, I call that last shot Mum-me.  Who would not want a yard full of these Clara Curtis mums? 

There won’t be many more of these this year.  We’ve been having cooler nights lately.

My son John was out mowing the yard and found this.  He knows how I love plants and creatures so he brought it to me.  He’s so sweet.  I labeled this picture “grasshopper” at first, but I think it’s a katydid. 

A Few Thoughts:

• Willful waste brings woeful want.
• The more you learn to live without, the more you’ll have to live with.  Frank A. Clark
• If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet.  Irish proverb.
• He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.  Proverbs 18:9

I want to accomplish things that don’t just fade away when the sun goes down.  I want to do things that will be useful to my family in days to come.

Lynn