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kathie Sherman - It is amazing how God puts something in your path, just when you need to read it.

I use to be a purist and thought that flowers should grow with flowers and veggies with veggies. But, being the “no nonsense” personality on my Myers Briggs, I decided to dive in and plant some things to eat mixed in with the flowers. Every meal, we eat something from my garden. I’ve let my broccoli and mustard greens bloom as I love to put the flowers in my salad and soon I will have my own seeds which are even better than the ones I would by in the nursery as they are adapted to my soil and will even produce a better crop.

I am going through a career transition and a friend told me to take time to nurture my soul, along with searching for what He wants me to do next. Today I came home for a positive interview but I was disappointed as the lady who invited me to interview really didn’t have a job for me, she just wanted to meet me.

So, after the interview, I put on my gardening clothes and hauled some big boulders from a a neighbors yard who offered them to me. I like to make borders with large rocks and continue the theme my son began when he xerscaped our yard and put rectangular limestone rocks around the border of the part of the yard that no longer had St. Augustine grass. Hauling boulders is good therapy. I am careful to use my legs and not my back and all that hard work gets the endorphins flowing. I lived two summers in a pioneer community where we did not have any running water or electricity, so I love to challenge myself to do hard work. If I can fell a tree, strip the bark and make a dining room table out of it with my team of 5 other pioneer gals, I figure I can haul boulders.

My bordered gardens have pansies, African Daisies, mint, pink saliva and red saliva , chrsabtgryrnynsm planted just inside the border. Can’t wait till they are established and are peeking their cute little faces up over the boulders. I also live a block away from the basin, where the water overflows to when we have a massive rain. I love to have my back pack, and shovel ready to dig up something I need more of or do not have growing in my garden. When the water washed down to the basin, with it it takes all kinds of wonderful seeds, which begin to grow in the virgin woods of the basin.

Also, here in TX we experienced an “arctic freeze” which total wiped out all the beautiful jasmine, roses and other vines I had growing on my wall. So I cut them back and made an invisible trellis by zig zagging fishing line from a nail at the top and bottom of each picket. This was my first attempt at a “How to Video” and my videographer, was a little too creative and turned my phone, for what he thought would be a creative twist to my video. This video is a sure to make anyone laugh as I am on my side through much of the clip. I hope to redo it and give my over eager husband some good tips on how to video with an iPhone.

BTW, I made a video of me harvesting my Kohlrabi. So many people here don’t know what it is and a local nursery wants to post my stuff on their website.

One of the things I am considering is seeing if my love for gardening could become the new career I am looking for.

Thanks for reading this long post, and “Thank :You” for all the inspiration you have given to me.

Blessings on your Blooms,
Kathie