Gardening Ain't For Sissies!

We had a deluge of rain here in the

northeast, it started raining Friday night

 and hasn't stopped yet!

Now I'm not talking about your typical

'occasional showers' kind of days, I'm

talking downright crazy rain!

We've had over 5 inches and it's been

hailing and thundering to boot.

You can well imagine that it's not fit

to garden around these parts just yet, and

it just might take some time to

dry out enough to even think about

digging in the dirt.

Since I'm pretty big on dreaming,

and dreaming of time in the

garden is pretty much what fills

my head this time of year, I

decided to peruse some

gardening magazines (as it's the next

best thing as actually getting into the dirt).

Now this is not me mind you,

but when I saw this picture in a

magazine I about wet my pants  laughing!

I don't know about you gals but I never

garden in a dress or barefoot for that matter!

...and I seldom find myself surrounded by

friends, laughing while I garden.

Trust me when I tell you that I am mostly alone

when I venture out to do any type of

garden work.

My own children know enough to stay

away lest I ask them to pull a weed

or two.

Actually that's probably why I love

it so much, it's pretty much me, nature

and God out there.

Even Life Magazine tried to glamourize

gardening back in the day,

when having a 'victory garden' was

considered our civic duty.

Now seriously, dresses and heels, perfect white gloves,

hair neatly coifed?

They even

tried to sell it as a great social time.

(at least these ladies are dressed for it)

I can tell you for certain you won't ever find

me gracing the pages of your favorite

gardening issue. I don't look good enough!

I'm usually in my grubbiest clothes,

 hair disheveled, dirt under my fingernails,

a general mess. I work hard out there,

digging, raking, hauling 50 lb.

bags of soil, lugging huge planters,

trust me it ain't pretty!

I've suffered countless injuries and bruises

including breaking bones in both feet

over the years.

Like I said, gardening ain't for sissies!

Could you imagine the shape

I'd be in if I wore a dress and heels???