Ha! You make some very good points. I guess I never thought if it that way. Isn't it funny how we tend to downplay our own achievements - the grass is always greener as they say.
And you're right. In a few years I better be sitting in my own garden eating fresh peas!
It is more like a safe harbour. Some times safe harbours are all we can do. But yes I would take this over sitting in an office. Yesterday I watched youtube on how to fall a large sugar pine. I used to do that for a living. Six hours a day tree after tree. It was another safe harbour. Funny thing is that it was the only video on how to do it properly. No wonder so many people get killed.
I love gardening. It was a bit tough this summer in the heat and I got sun burnt a bit.
As for being brave. Didn't you have to be to go to school and become what you are. I always thought I took the easy way out. Funny how I would think it was the lazy way considering how hard it was physically. But mentally is a different storey.
When you get to be my age you had better be sitting in your garden eating your own fresh peas. It isn't that hard. But it is different and different can be scary.
Must be so rewarding! All that weeding is quite a feat though...but I think many people would pick that over sitting in an office any day. You're living the dream Davit - not many people are brave enough to do it.
I have been gardening for around 55 years so I have a system that works. Still it is a lot of work. My sprinklers are fixed and I run two at a time so there is no moving them around in the garden. I till more than once both in the spring and fall to get as many weed seeds up and killed. I use raised rows and straddle them with a bench so I don't have to bend as much.
When I worked I spent about an hour a day weeding and more on the weekend. Now it is two to three a day but It is a very big garden (two actually) and there are two greenhouses and flowers everywhere. Besides the bed Sunny planted there are four more but smaller and flowers in my old manure spreader and grain roller. I'm making another bed three feet by twenty feet to move plants when I divide them. There are 60 gladiolas in the manure spreader that are just sending up spikes now. I can do this at my age and in my condition, but I don't have to work for a living and my interest doesn't run to TV or the internet. The little time I spend here is usually during breaks or after dark.
I find the quiet (except for birdsong) in the garden very relaxing. A good place to think and plan. This year there are lots of toads too. A garden teaches you to accept failures and enjoy accomplishments. If you do it organically the produce is better too. Crisp carrots with a high sugar content, never bitter or woody. Everything just tastes better than out of the store. You can get creative too and make stuffed pumpkin flowers or dipped un open tiger lilly flowers. Tiger lilly flowers attract Humming birds and have a high nectar taste picked and eaten in their prime.
I managed to clean the spark plug on my chain saw so it is running now. But ran out of gas in the Honda on the saw mill. I was tired anyway. Continuing to be too hot here.
One of the roses Sunny planted is a deep red and has over 30 flowers on it and more coming.
Sounds beautiful as usual Davit. Much better then a picture! I've been dreaming of having a large garden of my own for awhile now so reading from you lets me live vicariously! Sounds like a lot of work - but fulfilling work I suspect.
When sunny was staying here she planted a bunch of perennials she brought from Ontario. One is a red rose and it is covered in flowers right now and more are coming. Everything she planted survived and is doing well despite the -35 we had last winter. I'm making new flower beds because things need to be divided. This year the lavender I planted last year has flowers. I also planted a novelty flower. Bells of Ireland. It has green flowers. For some unknown reason my Hollyhocks are flowering for the second year, their third year. They are six feet tall and loaded with flowers. They are biennials so this should not of happened. A hollyhock that decided to be a perennial would be worth keeping seed from.
I have a sour cherry whip I saved and need to plant. I think I will do that this evening. I also have a gooseberry bush that needs to be moved. Never a dull moment. It as been a bad year for the raspberries for everyone. I have a bunch of them to transplant too. The strawberries we planted this spring did well and we even got some berries.
Where do I get the time? Mostly from not wasting it so I get frustrated when something doesn't work. Like my chain saw today. I'm sure other people who have a disability or are getting old feel this way too. Or do they just accept it and give up. I was never one to give in. Which is why I'm going to see if I have a spare spark plug some where from my logging days.
Hmmm from that I say you value consistency and maybe even beauty and nature.
Sorry about the avatar not working. We have notified the tech team. It might take some time to fix though. In the mean time your descriptions of your beautiful neck of the woods will have to suffice. Good thing you have a talent for describing your surroundings Davit!
My pet peeve is things that don't work when they should. Like my chainsaw today. Well it never ran right from brand new. Tuesday I will get a new spark plug for it and adjust the carburetor. Monday is a holiday here.
My biggest peeve is that I can't change my Avatar so I can post some nice pictures of my flowers.
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