Rain Garden

We have heard about bumps in the road of life, now hear about bumps in the garden of life. Today was the big day for the rain garden. Early this morning I went to get my plants at what I thought was the Metropolitan Milwaukee Sewerage District, where I had gotten my rain barrels from, only to find it was not the right place. (Bump 1). Asking directions from a biker I found the real MMSD headquarters and my perennials plants waiting for me. Back home I started to put in the plants in the rain garden, using a mixture of coir, castings and Milorganite around each plant in the rain garden. When I was about half way done, I decided to go to the hardware store to get a extension hose for the rain barrel, to take some tea to the DMZ community garden, and get some more wood chips there for the rain garden. After a successful trip to the hardware store I was heading to the DMZ when the car in front of me made a sudden stop. I slammed on the breaks and stopped before hitting it. But before I could enjoy my fast reaction I was hit by the van behind me and ended up hitting the car in front of me. (Bump 2) There was no serious damage to any car or persons so the police whom I called said just to take down everyone’s information and to have everyone file a report in the police station. This took some time so I decided to skip going to the DMZ and just get some comfort food, Chocolate Turtle Sunday Custard, at my favorite Custard stand that was nearby, file the police report, and return home. Coming out of the custard stand I got a call from Dawn of the DMZ saying that she and Marna were outside of my house. This was a pleasant surprise so I skipped filing the police report and came home to visit with Marna and Dawn, my friends from the DMZ. After finishing planting the rest of the plants in the rain garden I decided to take a picture for the posting tonight. Rather than go into the house I just used the digital camera on my phone to take the picture. I have done this before and the pictures have been good. However, tonight when I went to transfer the picture from my phone to the computer, the disk I used did not work. (Bump 3) Thus I used the picture on the side from the MMSD Rain Garden web page rather than the one I took from my own rain garden.

Tonight on the news I heard about a new type of therapy called “Eco Therapy”. It says that walking or working in the garden is a good way to relieve stress and is very healthy for a person. Somehow the mind, body and soul relate better in nature, as when working in the garden. This makes sense to me but they fails to account for the bumps in the garden of life.

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