Another Monday
I’m a little embarrassed I’ve neglected to write in this blog again. When I “get to it” I always find making an entry a source of relief if my day has been “trying”. It IS still early today…
Day before yesterday was stormy all day, and as I fed and watered and walked and made the dogs comfortable, I noticed a couple of plant pots rolling around the driveway. THEN, I noticed the colourful TAGS that usually adorn the perennials strewn on the lawn! Many of my potted plants (that I have in and near the greenhouse) had blown over.
So… I noticed that the wind was buffetting the greenhouse and, though the plastic covering was violently billowing, nothing had torn. I ran over to tighten up the ropes that we were using to lash down the entire structure, when I realized that some parts of the pipe frame had come apart. The strong covering had been pulled out from under the heavy rocks, asphalt and railway steel that Gary had laid along its perimeter. The whole structure had moved a couple of feet. Many of my planted perennials had been blown over and dumped out in the freezing wind, and I realized then that my little greenhouse was NOT going to survive much more time in the storm.
In order to keep the whole thing from being thrown into the ditch by the gales, I ran around releasing ties from the frame, and as I held the edge of the plastic, that wind picked up the covering and wafted it ‘way up and over to the other side of the greenhouse. So I saved the pipe frame (which is dreadful to reassemble, especially now that each piece is slightly bent from this happening in the past), and must try to get the covering back on the greenhouse soon.
The bottom line is that I’m starting to wonder if we’ll have enough warm weather to “encourage” lush growth in the potted plants for my sale in MAY! I felt discouraged already, as much more potting is waiting to get done, but it has been SO COLD this month. Not everyone is like my dear friend Barb, who realizes the POTENTIAL in every bare root or division that I’ve placed in the soil and labelled.
Why stew so much about something that may turn out well in a few weeks? Because I’m HUMAN. I don’t think I’m an extreme “worrier”, but I do like to think ahead, especially when I’ve invested a fair bit of money, time and heart already. I try to envision “worst case scenarios” without being pessimistic; in fact I consider myself an optimist.
So now that I’ve vented, I see that today is not too windy, and the temperature is supposed to be as warm as Victoria today (unusual for this area). Gary will be back later from horseshoeing, and he’ll be happier to HELP me put the greenhouse covering back on than he’d be if he discovered I’d done it by myself.
I have a little Shih Tzu dog to groom today; it is the one who bit Gary very hard while I was away in March. The dog and I get along just fine and I think the trick is to “make no sudden moves”. In twenty-one years of business, I’ve only been bitten “hard” by one dog, a cocker spaniel, who I inadvertently “surprised” (I grabbed him as he headed for the grooming shop door and freedom.). That was more than 15 years ago.
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