My husband, like Manny, hibernates in the winter. As soon as the days get longer and the temperature gets to about 65, V comes back to life and goes into hyperactive work mode. He also has talent to go with the spurts of energy.
Spring is almost here.
This weekend the sun called to him, and said, “It’s time to think about planting.” V loves to design landscaped areas, but has never been interested in gardening – UNTIL I retired. Now he wants to garden. We live in Central California which is the agricultural capital of the world. Crops of every type grow here. You dig a hole, stick something in it, flood it, and POOF it grows.
Lavender will look nice around these rocks.
V is creative and artistic. Gardening is not merely planting random plants into the soil. This weekend he came home with lumber, pvc pipe, wire mesh, soil amendments, and germ-free soil.
While he was doing all that I started on another couple of projects. I pruned roses. Behind the roses is a once beautiful fence that V designed and built when we moved here 12 years ago. It has been painted several times, but it never STAYS painted. (duh) Old fences aren’t interesting to creative people. Except that they look cottage-ish, and have creative value in the landscape. To me they look old and run-down. So I spent the rest of the afternoon scraping the peeling paint off the fence.
Where is Huck Finn when you need him?
Are you the creative one or the grunt in your family? What are some of your projects?
Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
Now that the sunshine is here, and the roofers are finished, I can clean up the gardens and get them going. Spring is a couple of months later getting here this year.
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If it was any earlier, it would still be winter! Two months ago it was January, RR!!! Do you take pictures of your gardens??? I bet they are lovely! You can grow everything there. 🙂
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I love gardening, Marsha, and I can’t wait until we’re out at the farm so I can plant more fruit trees! I think the first half of the house is being moved tomorrow (fingers crossed!) 😀
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Yeah!!!! How’s your other project going? You are doing a lot right now, aren’t you? Whew I’m worn out just thinking about it!
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He really gets into planting. Here you can plant almost anytime and winter is the best so we don’t hibernate. When up North in IL with a house, we had a berm with trees planted, were often adding things and putting in trees, bushes (in spring). I was the grunt who pulled up the sod to add another garden! But it was worth it with glorious flowers out front.
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Glad to know I have grunt company. V is really his own grunt most of the time because he is bossy. I REALLY don’t like being bossed, so I hide out! If I so much as show my face to tell him how nice things look, I get accosted. So I have learned to let him grunt. Sometimes I feel sorry for him, and MAKE him come in. He forgets to eat, he loses beaucoup pounds, so I have to watch out for those things. Other than that, he takes one look at me and thinks, “Ah ha, the Amazon woman is here!” Just because he is little and can lift millions of pounds of whatever, he assumes(d) that I could too. I have worked for nearly 18 years to break him of that, but my best way is to do grunt work elsewhere out of his sight! 🙂 Marsha
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He sounds like Babs!! A little brute who expects everyone else to be as efficient and powerful as her! I kinda hide when major work is afoot! Well, we are working to get along and share our talelents better on big projects. It sounds like V and Babs would get along most swimmingly building Pyaramids and Cathedrals, China Walls, and so forth, together.
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hahaha I am sitting here at my computer laughing out loud at that comment. I can see them both doing that! Seriously! And you and I would be hiding out in a bookstore somewhere! 🙂 ML
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I wish your husband would stop over here and build one of those for me! I’m only a mere 3000 miles away…..
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No problem! Do you mind if we schedule him after April 21?
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Thank you my friend. That was kind of you. I appreciate it!!! 🙂 See you soon! Marsha 🙂
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It is still too cold here to plant. I keep hearing you should plant after Good Friday. In the first part of 2011 we were staying at our son’s , which is about 30 miles northwest of Savannah,GA. I had to have my shoulder replaced. I got so bored, that I kept going into Rincon, a little town not far from were our son’s house is and I would buy some tomato plants. He was planting a garden with a few tomatoes. Well by the time I recovered from surgery he must of had 60 tomato plants that I planted in his garden. He said, “He had never seen so many tomatoes. I’ll probably plant a garden this year. Good luck on yours!
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They really produce here. If we have 3-4 plants, we have more than enough to feed the world!!! 🙂
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I am getting my fertilizer ready, and it is a workout! Nothing is easy, but I tell you it is so rewarding!
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I’ve never been a gardener; my husband loves playing with plants, replanting trees, etc. I am hoping though to put in some veggies with my grandson. Your plot looks great!
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You southern-west-coasters are driving me batty with your early spring!!!
(Beautiful pics tho.)
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I can imagine. I’ve live in snow! I like it here better!!! 🙂
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