Growing Seasons

The other day I was in Barnes in Noble when I received a facebook invite to my 10 year highschool reunion.. The only thing that it really made me feel was ..well really old for one and that I haven't really accomplished anything. So I went into the bathroom and cried. Pretty silly huh? I actually had to walk out of the stall and then when I hit the door to the outside world I went back to the stall and cried some more. This happened three times.

I guess whats really weird is to think of myself so much older. I don't feel older in fact lately I have felt that life is just starting to begin for me. I've had the opportunity to do a lot of things recently that I've for one never thought I would be good at and two never thought that I would have the opportunity to do.

The only thing that does make me feel old is explaining my overly elderly hobbies to people, especially strangers. Really my hobbies are probably not elderly..just things that I've always seen myself start when I was after 50...haha. For instance, lately I've started baking/cooking something new on Sundays which is new for me because I especially reserved this particular hobby for when I became older. This was a specific goal that I would learn how to do when I reached a certain age because I would have more time, etc. Now that I don't party as much I actually like waking up early on Sundays even though it's my one day off. But I love it, I love everything that I have in my life right now and I'm trying to get used to the point that it could just stay like this forever..and however unbelievable it is sometimes it's a pretty amazing lucky grateful idea none the less.

One of the old lady things that I truly love doing (well besides knitting) is gardening which is the whole reason for this entry. Tonight I will start some of my seeds and I'm excited to get things going. This will be my third year of having a hopefully another successful vegetable garden.

Growing a vegetable garden is really easy and I sincerely think everyone should try it..at least once. There is something so nurturing and there is a connection one experiences that is really truly wonderful, almost life altering in a way. That sounds crazy..I know. I was one of those people that was sceptical too. I actually couldn't grow a house plant for the life of me. Everything that I've ever grown before I started a vegetable garden would die. But now I've created with help from family, the significant other an organic garden plot, a compost bin, and now I have collected gallon buckets to gather rain so that there is little waist as possible. This year instead of growing everything I'm focusing on just a few things and trying to grow a lot of what I focus on. Besides what my family will take, I hope to give the excess to a shelter somewhere.

I'm very excited to learn new things from growing this year. Still nothing amazes me about the attitude of vegetable gardens. Unlike picky flowers, some plants and trees vegetable plants (tomato esp) will grow pretty much no matter what. They just love living and giving that much :)