A time to pull weeds

I have been putting it off.  The wet cold weather a very good excuse for not getting into the garden which so badly needs weeding.  Funny enough it actually looked like rain on Saturday when I donned a coat and beanie and headed out thinking I might get a bit done before it starts.  As it happened the rain never came, it was the lack of light and a need to cook dinner that called me in.

We had harvested the pumpkins and tidied the herbs and then life took over as it does and the garden was left.  As I weeded I found myself thinking how often I have had to weed this garden and vowed that I wouldn't let it get so bad again.  How much I actually enjoy growing things and how great it would be to make use of the garden that we have.  But, with the everyday, full on life of raising four boys and running a household the addition of two acres of land gets to be too much {even just this little patch of garden on the driveway}.

I wonder just what I signed up for and how great it would be to have a little quarter acre section.  Just for a minute.  I only have to look around and realise just how good we have got it and what lies ahead if I just keep moving forward. Our piece of the country right in town.  Because amongst the weeds there is goodness.  Plants have held on and are pushing through.  It just takes the time to clear away the things that hold them back.  We have done a lot in the five years that we have been here.

So it is with me. I have many seeds of thought that I have planted but they struggle through trying to grow amongst the noise that is my life.  The more often I weed the things that hold me back from doing what I should be, the more I grow.  As I caught up with blogs that I read I came across this post.  While the content caught my eye as I had recently written a similar post it was the quote in the picture that held me for longer -  'she loved life and it loved her right back'

To love life is a choice not a reaction to the circumstances I find myself in.  Time to pull weeds.

A new year, a new start

It is here - 2012. I love the chance a new year brings to look back on the past year and to look ahead to what the new year holds. I have many things that I want to do. So many it is hard to know where to begin. One of my big things is working on our place. There is so much that needs to be done. When we moved here three years ago it was pretty much a blank canvas. I have just been looking back at some older photos and realise just how much we have done already. I am looking forward to documenting it more here.



So after a very wet start to 2012 we had a gorgeous day today. Just right for getting into the weeds that have been taunting me for many a day. These are pictures of our front garden as you drive up the driveway. Amazingly enough there are actually plants growing in the jungle. I have weeded this space so many back breaking times. Each time we do just a bit more to make it somewhat easier. This time it is war. Lets hope the ideas get a little further than just thinking about them. So great to come in after gardening to see the progress.