What did you do in the garden today?

I know, I know...I've grappled with it, believe me. How would I feel afterwards, if I left & they all died, though. I know I'm an oddball. I do feel the "other side" welcomes us all when we pass, so dying itself doesn't bother me...the suffering & pain bother me. I think of coming back here afterwards to see death & devastation, losing every little life I've come to love, the house, loft & coops that kept us safe, which would require rebuilding while enduring grief & survivor guilt. Grief...I've already had a whopping share of that & it still hurts. In my youth I had resilience & strength, but after fighting cancer 3x my physical condition is not as "fight ready" as it once was & after caring for all loved ones dying, losing friends to cancer & the period of years grieving & then going through the covid time utterly alone...I really don't want to be in a position where I leave any living loved ones behind, whether they be human or otherwise. I do have an 8x20 enclosed utility trailer, & crates, if I had enough time to crate up everyone, it could work if there was enough time & warning. But if there's only a 15 min warning...nope, not gonna make it. Maybe in a past life I was that Captain that went down with the ship. 😂
I thought about converting a RV trailer into a coop. That way moving/evacuations would be throwing treats into the coop so they would go in and off we go 😂
Expect I have too many for one coop 😔

I had a loss of a boyfriend when I was younger and my solution was not getting attached again. I doubt either of our coping strategies are healthy.
 
I thought about converting a RV trailer into a coop. That way moving/evacuations would be throwing treats into the coop so they would go in and off we go 😂
Expect I have too many for one coop 😔

I had a loss of a boyfriend when I was younger and my solution was not getting attached again. I doubt either of our coping strategies are healthy.
Yes, I went through decades of not getting attached to people again. Losing the last person I was close to, then covid right afterwards, I changed my "better off alone" strategy & opened up my life to let someone in. Grief really sucks. I'd rather tangle with cancer myself than see a love one tangle with it. It's no picnic to have it, but it was truly the worst experience caring for a loved one deal with it & lose the fight. If it wasn't for an NDE experience & listening to thousands of other's true life experiences with NDEs, I really don't know how I would fare out. I'm not particularly religious, but I am a believer of spiritual or rather a "conscious energy" & open minded. That is the only way I can make some sense of it all. Life is an energy force, it is a gift to be respected, protected & cherished.
 
No Golden Orbs! Why, where are those cool mamas this year? Got Praying Mantis, too. 👍

Got nasty stuff...
Ugh, so many of these, not only in the garden, but all over. I've never been bitten by one, but Rick has, while working under a truck on the ground. Rabid Wolf spider
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Yikes, got lots of these, too.
Black Widow spider
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The live & let live goes out the door when it comes to these 2. Rats & mice, too. Sorry dudes, you gotta go. (They went)
 
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What can you do for them if you stay and not evacuate?
If you and the flock die what has been accomplished????

I am thinking of moving due to "progress" across the road. So I have the luxury of choosing an area without hurricane, fires, earthquake or volcano. Right now I have humidity and tornadoes... I would like to get away from those... so far I haven't found anywhere that fits my requirements 😂
Don’t come to Massachusetts. We have tornadoes, hurricanes, nor’easters, humidity, heavy snowfalls and bears.
 
No gardening today. I’m still recovering. I did process a pound of green beans and get them in the freezer. I have a bunch of red radishes and a cucumber I’m thinking of turning into refrigerator pickles. I finally got the multiple bags of kale out of my refrigerator. I gave it all to DD and the little bit I picked yesterday I cooked up and added it to the 3 cheese manicotti filling. Good golly was that yummy. The leftover green beans will be cooked up with the early potatoes I dug yesterday. I ran out of holes in my strawberry grow bags to tuck the new runners in. I think I’ll take some compost and wrap them in plastic wrap so perhaps they’ll grow roots. Then I can move them to a less “populated” grow bag. Fingers crossed.

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