Late last night, we got started on our "Mary Garden" that we wanted to plant for almost 2 or 3 years now. We took a nice ol' trip to the Home Depot, and spent enough on flowers and such, but we had a list. Did you know that there are actual flowers named for the Blessed Virgin Mother? Some obvious ones are the rose, and the lilies, of course, but there are others: corn flower, dianthus, marigold, morning glory, spearmint, sage, thyme, zinnia, and many others. So we attempted to get all the kinds of flowers that we would need. Whoa- what a shopping trip! It was quite fun, though, and might I add that a perfectionist shouldn't go to the Home Depot because she may get all these fancy ideas in her head like say, projects. And if you give a perfectionist a project, well, you know. (I should write a book similar to Laura Numeroff's If you Give a Mouse a Cookie. . . . haha. "If you put a Perfectionist in a Home Improvement Store") Anyhow, It was hard occasionally to "stay on task" with the garden being there!
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So, thanks to my husband who is a "car guy", he was able to unstuck a friend's truck that he so graciously got stuck on a boulder near our driveway in an attempt to back in with a load of topsoil. This gives me a laugh. . . because he REALLY needed my help!
Yeah, it sort-of looked liked that! LOL!
Back to the garden. . .
We live literally on a pile of rocks. . . haha--- I just realized our house was "built on the rock", *laugh a little*
It is treacherous trying to dig a garden! Especially with all those rocks in the ground. We need much more topsoil before we can do anymore, and a huge piece of equipment. I told my husband it'd be wise to rent something soon, if we are to finish this and have this landscaping project look as nice as it has cost so far! Right? So, we (the kids and I) are trying to be patient, as we just want to get in and plant, plant, plant!
We do have a vegetable and herb garden to plant too. But one at a time!
Our garden is going to be such a beautiful sight and it's going to smell nice too, once it's completed! It is to honor Our Lady, of course. I had to remind my kids that would come out and work and toil with me, that that hard work it takes to prepare the garden so that it can become something beautiful, is the same thing we must do with our lives in order to get to Heaven, and it's true that he is preparing for us a place in Heaven that is B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L! I can only imagine being surrounded by the most beauty anyone could ever want! There's nothing in the world like passing such a botanical arrangement of fragrances!
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(See Tea & cake with the Saints for the book we got the idea from.)
Our Lady deserves to be honored! We are hoping that she will see to it that our garden blesses her as our Mother!
Blessings!
J.M.J.
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