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so then they had to put a 4x4 into the floor of the potting shed so she could stand on it and reach the table comfortably that potting table built for my great grandmother was too low for my grandfather to work at comfortably and in the end the potting shed was just too dark for him to see he would often take a flat and seedlings and go out into the greenhouse to work under the light of the glass canopy and at the height of the sand filled tables where he could still see a bit and his back didn t hurt to bend over i like the potting shed i like the coolness of the earth around me i like the dampness of the soil when it s ready for working on the cement potting table but as i stand there on my great grandmother s 4x4 at the table built out of love for her by her son and her husband what i love most is the presence of my family there in the shadows and in the streaming sunlight i can feel them all around me and i know i m where i m supposed to be the table is just the right height for me posted in uncategorized 1 comment today s garden thoughts august 3 2009 by etrish it rained last week a lot in fact all told the garden got about two inches of rain in four days after a three week dry spell and while i m very very thankful for the rain it did come at a rather tricky time of trying to get the greens planted and ready for the fall u pick it business but nothing can be done about planting until the soil dries out a bit and can be worked with the high clay content that we have in our garden trying to work the soil while it s wet only results in bricks as a result the past few days in the garden i have been doing what things could be accomplished while i wait for the sun and the wind to dry out the earth tony helped me to put out stakes for the peppers and other than that i ve weeded and weeded and weeded some more the odd thing about it is that i really enjoy weeding after a rainfall the work is quick and light and the weeds which had seemed so indomitable prior to the rain are now uprooted easily with a twist and a firm tug it s gratifying work to pull the weeds before they have a chance to set seed you can see the progress as you go down the rows and once the row is complete the peppers stand out proudly and grow much stronger without having to compete with the weeds for nutrients weeding while still a gardening necessity is spiritually and aesthetically pleasing to me and i always fall deeply into contemplation when working alone in the garden pulling weeds of course as i mentioned previously weeding after a soaking rainfall is much more productive than weeding during a dry spell when the soil is hard and dry the weeds break off in your hands while the roots stay below the surface most weeds will then just send out runners and rhizomes and where once there may have been one weed now there are multiple weeds in its place weeding in the dry hard clay of georgia is frustrating and futile the difference is the rain the weeds are the same the particles of soil are the same the action of the gardener is the same but the rain makes the outcome so very different it is only after the soaking rainfall that the weeds can be pulled easily and in the act of that pulling the soil is aerated as effectively as if it were freshly tilled allowing the plant to grow even stronger it s the rain that makes the difference when the days are sunny and bright without rainfall it s as though everything is perfect but moment by moment in the midst of all that seeming peace and perfection the earth is getting baked harder and harder my soul can be like that too much ease too much brilliant sunlight and the weeds begin to set in laziness pride complacency self indulgence and envy all these weeds take hold at the slightest opportunity and flourish digging in with tiny powerful roots i see them and can t help but think nah it s hard to pull them now they ll just break before leaving them to grow another day but just before the weeds completely overtake me god always sends the rain he knows that rain in my life hardship sadness loss and fear is often what i need most to soften the hardened clay of my soul when the rain has finally stopped my momentum when the rain makes any other task seem impossible the only task left is to weed sometimes it takes a great deal rain for me to stop and attend to the weeds in my garden but when i do the reward is often profound posted in uncategorized 1 comment the hardest post i ve written july 30 2009 by etrish i ve been avoiding this post because it s just too hard to write emilie always says it s not real until i write about it and maybe that s why i ve put it off so long because i don t want it to be real three weeks ago today my grandfather passed away suddenly see when i say that i can t seem to follow up on it because that one sentence says everything to me my grandfather passed away my grandfather passed away it s so finite it still takes my breath away to even think it for the rest of the season i m trying to bring in the harvest and plant in order to help supplement my grandmother s income but the truth is that i have to keep going as long as i m in that dirt on that tractor in the potting shed i can still feel my grandfather with me and i know he sees me there and i pray he s proud of me posted in uncategorized 4 comments happy birthday beloved naa april 22 2009 by etrish april 22 is a very important day for our family on this day in 1954 my grandfather brought home a shiny new ford naa tractor that he paid 1800 for his family thought he was crazy because he bought it on credit now to us in this day of astronomical credit card debt for lifestyle purchases this may not seem like any big deal but in 1954 it was certainly a big deal for my grandfather who worked a hard blue collar job as a night line switchman for the railroad but this is also one of my grandfather s proudest tales the tale he tells me everytime he has a chance about how we took landscaping work in his daylight off hours from the railroad so that he could make that tractor pay for itself and despite the disbelief of his family he paid it off before the note was due he has owned that tractor free and clear for 53 years and it has been his workmate for that many planting seasons it still runs beautifully and although it is no longer beautiful by ordinary physical standards i find it to be a thing of great beauty this strong american tractor still working alongside this strong american man at the risk of seeming tritely poetic the naa is the totem of my grandfather dependable rough around the edges strong but worn both the man and his tractor have worked hard to pay off their debts and live independently and both just keep on working and living to honor the naa that my grandfather loves i ll repost some pictures from earlier postings here s how the tractor looks today here s what it looked like new so happy birthday naa i m awfully glad that you joined our family those many years ago posted in uncategorized tagged grandpa tractor 1 comment staring down the barrel of 40 april 13 2009 by etrish tomorrow i will celebrate my 40th birthday yay i m pleased and proud no really i am as my grandfather says growing older sure beats the alternative he also says that any day you wake up on this side of the dirt is a good day anyway i m pleased and proud but not feeling particularly festive about it i am not feeling like having a party although i would like to go out to a honkytonk and drink margaritas and dance to country music when people ask me what i want for my birthday the most exciting thing i can think of is gardening books and new carhartt workpants for the season maybe a new garden hat would be nice along that vein tony gave me a beautiful gerber knife for my 40th that will be extremely helpful in the garden i love it it s the first really practical knife i ve ever had and i ve already put it to good use i had hoped that 40 would be more inspiring somewhere in my imagination i had pictured 40 with a trip to vegas or something more monumental but in the end it will probably be a much quieter affair dinner with the folks an evening with tony hopefully i will feel more inspired about the next 48 years than i do about the next 48 hours honestly i can t even seem to work up any hoopla at all phooey i was hoping to meet my inner wild child maybe next year posted in uncategorized 1 comment if you see lia please send her home april 9 2009 by etrish i am very sad this week tuesday night lia failed to come home at her customary time of 10pm she is was a cat of routine and we could always count on her showing up at the front door at 10pm wanting to come inside for the night in fact she had abby trained to let us know that she was waiting for us and even though we told her so many times that the coyotes might get her she still insisted in no uncertain terms on wandering around the property i think that she sees saw herself as a cat with the heavy responsibility of keeping our home free from chipmunks and volls and nearly every day she would bring us some trophy i ve hunted through the woods called and called and still there s no sign of her i suppose that there being no sign of her should give me some hope but she was a small cat and coyotes don t exactly have delicate table manners i tried for years to keep her indoors and she was an indoor cat until about 6 years old but she was by golly going to go outside i can t tell you the number of times we inadvertently slammed her head in the door trying to get in and out of the house without letting her dash by us i think that her odds were about fifty fifty that either the coyotes would get her or we would kill her with the door and if we actually succeeded in thwarting her escape well we had better not have left any laundry on the floor or she would get even with us i haven t completely given up hope but two days of no cat sightings is not very encouraging so i keep calling and praying and hoping and bracing myself posted in uncategorized 2 comments trish on a tractor april 1 2009 by etrish many thanks to my aunt joyce for taking this picture last summer this is the tractor i drive the most often and as you can tell from the huge smile on my face i get a huge kick out of driving it in case you re interested it s a 1976 ford 1600 with a landpride rototiller posted in uncategorized tagged tractor 1 comment i found new friends march 31 2009 by etrish not that there was ever anything wrong with my old friends visit farmers for the future posted in uncategorized leave a comment mr jefferson and i share garden notes march 26 2009 by etrish true confession time i have had a girlish crush on thomas jefferson since i was about 11 years old and i saw his fiery red headed portrait and started reading his biographies it was true love as i have aged a bit though and now have some short reference for my life i can see how all those little quirky bits of my youth are starting to coalesce into the whole me things i thought were odd or eclectic are now finding a place in my psyche in much the same way that puzzle pieces may seem to fit nowhere and then suddenly drop into place revealing the much larger image i never knew i loved gardening until a few years ago certainly i was surrounded by avid gardeners in my great grandparents and my grandfather but had not yet discovered that fascination in myself with growing things now i can hardly stop thinking about it i anxiously ordered seeds in january i optimistically started those seeds in february and march my plans for the weekend are already laid out and the potting soil is happily tempering away in the greenhouse just waiting for me to come and spend happy hours transplanting seeds i watch the weather two weeks in advance seeking opportunities to work in the garden in fact whereas a few years ago i was interested in gardening i am now beginning to feel like i am a gardener now it is a part of me this year unlike previous years i have started a garden journal or rather two the first journal is a hand written document so that i can write down the things i ve learned the things i ve thought about and interesting things that grandpa has told me the second journal catering to my technology tool using skills is an excel spreadsheet of all the seeds we ve purchased where they were purchased how much they cost when they were started when transplanted and will go on to record how many were planted out in the garden how they progressed and hopefully how much they yielded it s an ambitious project i admit but it satisfies my analytical ocd mind to track the garden s and the gardener s progress through the season which brings me back to thomas jefferson while perusing online resources for garden calendars this evening i came across the digitized and transcribed garden journal of mr jefferson himself a fascinating document that was his own way of record keeping for almost 60 years it s no secret that jefferson s gardens at monticello were among the finest to be found with experimental cultivars from all over europe and africa sent by admirers and kindred spirits for the last hour i ve delighted in reading his planting records weather observations and notes on advice and opinions given to him by his gardening friends but what i have particularly enjoyed is the amazing humanness of this giant among gardeners that is revealed in his journal not only in the writing but sometimes even through the lack of entries he was a busy man and often away from home he planted things and then either forgot to record the progress or was unable to do so due to his travels and commitments to the cultivation of a young nation the most telling page though is page 35 and for this page alone my heart s flames were rekindled because on this page very carefully and methodically thomas jefferson began his own ledger of garden records his bold penmanship setting out in orderly columns the records of his sowings and reapings looking very similar to my own spreadsheet journal but even more impressive than his methodology is his brutal honesty as he simply writes failed in a column to indicate the loss of the crop i ll never know what that one word failed encompassed for him was it the failure of the experiment failure of the gardener or simply the failure of the crop how did that failure relate to the kitchen and table at monticello as a novice gardener when things go wrong i wonder what did i do did jefferson also scratch his red head in wonderment while he looked at his failed carrots and celery page 1 of thomas jefferson s garden journal intrigued me by page 12 i was entranced but at page 35 i fell back in love and now i wonder if he sat at his desk on a fine spring afternoon like i sometimes do and think damme i wish i were out in the garden posted in uncategorized 2 comments older posts october 2026 s m t w t f s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 sep 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