Its day two of writing your new book of your life and bam you have writers block. Or maybe your are writing away and everything is perfect. If thats the case I am happy for you but thats now usually how my life works. Yesterday morning around 6:15 I saw a car in the middle of the road. It was 5 feet from the gas station. As I drove past it again about 5 minutes later the driver was at a pump filling up a small gas can. I remember thinking who carries a gas can around in their car. This morning at the same time the same car was backing out of the driveway right next door to the gas station. They lived right next door to the gas station and ran our of gas! Thats me in life I am running on fumes and the answer is right there in front of my house!
But lets not lose hope so quickly. Remember a few months ago I tried to get some sage to root in a glass so I would have a back up plant if something happened. The plant did not root and then my sage plant flowered and then poof it died instantly. It was very odd. So I was visiting the community garden and there was an over grown bed and I saw this plant with round leaves. I touched a leaf and it smelled it and it was sage. So as I was pulling the weeds away from this poor forgotten plant a piece broke off. I brought it home to use and stuck it in water so it would live long enough for me to decide what to put it in. A few days later I saw the tiniest little root. I thought it was my imagination. I hoped it was a root and two weeks later not only do I have roots I have sprouting.
I am going to plant this in a small pot and leave it in the house over winter. Hopefully next spring I will have a beautiful thriving sage plant again one that will hopefully root again if I cut some off.
I have told so many people to not get disheartened when you are gardening and your plants dont go like the seed packet promises. I have killed so many Christmas cactus in my 30 years of buying them. Wanna know why I failed? I did not know that they made cactus soil until recently. I have had the Christmas cactus my daughter bought me for 10 months now. Look at me succeeding in life.
When you are struggling or if you are wanting to try anything new and dont know where to get started ask someone. Ask several someones. Nothing gets you moving in the right direction as someone who has been there and done it.
I read that cow peas are perfect for growing in the hot summer but what the seed packet and they blog I read didnt tell me was that you should still plant in the early spring because they are slow growing. My plants look great but do not have a single bloom. I thought I would have already had a harvest and would be preparing the bed with snap peas for the fall. Life and learn my friends live and learn.
Whatever you are trying to do right now dont lose hope. You will get it or realize its not for you to get. Even if it doesnt happen the experience will prepare you for something that is meant for you. I had plans today but the rain changed that. Even though my day isnt going as planned I am going to find those beautiful things that are waiting for me to day and know that the rain that is ruining my plans is actually growing my garden.
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