Panic Mode..............
OK -- this is not a cry for sympathy. Nor is it a cry for help.
This is life as we know it. Every spring. Every May. Every June.
I go into serious panic mode.
First..... I can't seem to get the plants and plugs into the ground. The weeds are too tall. The weather is miserable. I am too busy. My back refuses to move another inch! So I go into full fledged panic mode.
There is not enough beer, chocolate, Valium, ice cream or Prozac to keep me from fretting, stewing. fidgeting. worrying and being a nervous wreck.
This is my life in May ..... as we know it.
My friend Jill sent me a note from Johnny's Select Seeds about the planting date on annuals. May 26th. Yea ... May 26th. Not March 26th. Or April 26th. May 26th. Which was only 4 days ago. Fortunately, that silly little note helped..... a lot. I am relatively calm on that point. It also helps to know that I will finish planting most of my plugs by Wednesday.
So although ... everyone else in the immediate universe has been done planting for months(!!!!) ..... I am just fine. (Truth in blogging ........ I have been sedated by a twist ice cream cone. It helps!)
Planting worries are set aside..... now we are in the foo-foo worry state.
How do I make this place look different/ special/ unique/ new???? You know.... how to I get a foo-foo look that I want for the farm??? I'm now on a first name basis with the entire paint department at Menards. I have gone through years of magazines, looking for inspiration. I have poured over ideas online.
And right now....... I got nothing!
Oh ... I can find all sorts of things that costs lots of money or takes lots of time/creativity/ talent. Oh -- I see those. But can I find anything that I can create... right now! With the stuff I have here on the farm ... now??
Not so much.
And this is the time of year........ I am bleedin' money. Yep ... I spent last night looking for a transfusion. But no one is compatible with my type. O Negative!!! Yep ... when Mr. Banker guys see that I am an O Negative.... they run!!!
So I'm worried. I'm stressed. I'm bummed.
This will pass on the day I can sell a bucket of flowers. I know that. I have been putting my poor Honey through this for ten years now.
Until then, I could use a twelve-step plan for cut-flower farmers.
They say acceptance is the first step.
This is life as we know it. Every spring. Every May. Every June.
I go into serious panic mode.
First..... I can't seem to get the plants and plugs into the ground. The weeds are too tall. The weather is miserable. I am too busy. My back refuses to move another inch! So I go into full fledged panic mode.
There is not enough beer, chocolate, Valium, ice cream or Prozac to keep me from fretting, stewing. fidgeting. worrying and being a nervous wreck.
This is my life in May ..... as we know it.
My friend Jill sent me a note from Johnny's Select Seeds about the planting date on annuals. May 26th. Yea ... May 26th. Not March 26th. Or April 26th. May 26th. Which was only 4 days ago. Fortunately, that silly little note helped..... a lot. I am relatively calm on that point. It also helps to know that I will finish planting most of my plugs by Wednesday.
So although ... everyone else in the immediate universe has been done planting for months(!!!!) ..... I am just fine. (Truth in blogging ........ I have been sedated by a twist ice cream cone. It helps!)
Planting worries are set aside..... now we are in the foo-foo worry state.
How do I make this place look different/ special/ unique/ new???? You know.... how to I get a foo-foo look that I want for the farm??? I'm now on a first name basis with the entire paint department at Menards. I have gone through years of magazines, looking for inspiration. I have poured over ideas online.
And right now....... I got nothing!
Oh ... I can find all sorts of things that costs lots of money or takes lots of time/creativity/ talent. Oh -- I see those. But can I find anything that I can create... right now! With the stuff I have here on the farm ... now??
Not so much.
And this is the time of year........ I am bleedin' money. Yep ... I spent last night looking for a transfusion. But no one is compatible with my type. O Negative!!! Yep ... when Mr. Banker guys see that I am an O Negative.... they run!!!
So I'm worried. I'm stressed. I'm bummed.
This will pass on the day I can sell a bucket of flowers. I know that. I have been putting my poor Honey through this for ten years now.
Until then, I could use a twelve-step plan for cut-flower farmers.
They say acceptance is the first step.
Comments
Hmm, need some huge hickory logs for your flower farm? I can get you some CHEAP!! But you have to pick them up.
Judy
I am confident you will persevere and your crop will be fabulous.