Can this be my front lawn someday?

This afternoon the sun came out and it was possible to work outside. Instead, I went on an errand journey driving around looking for things. Although two of the items were garden related, some bricks from the Habitat Resale store and some coffee grounds for the garden, I came home feeling the time would have been better spent working outside. I shrugged off the feeling saying there is always tomorrow, only to hear that tomorrow it may be cold in the day with snow.

The old saying “Do not put off to tomorrow what you can do today” does not always apply. Many times there are too many things to do today to do them right and we must put off something. What to do and what to put off are the real questions. When you are at peace and seeing your life clearly the question of what to prioritize is easy. You just do what naturally comes to you to do first. However, most often, like facing a multitude of tasks in the garden, you need to do what you can do and take what you can get.

A shocking discovery today was the number of interlocking stones, and their cost, I need to build a 25’ X 10’ raised garden bed on the front lawn. After checking the cost at some building place I went to the Habit Restore and purchased what I could get. It was not enough, but I can pray and hope that more come into the store, and use what I have to start the bed. With these stones and similar ones I got last summer for around the rain garden I should have enough to get started. I can always put some back around the rain garden when and if more come into the store. Looking back I should have bought more last summer when I first saw them. But “I should have” is not going to help me as much as I what I can do now.

There are many examples from everyday life of “taking what you can get,” but they need to wait till another day. Right now I am just taking what I can.

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