Yesterday I was busy, bought rosemary, basil and parsley at Home Depot and planted them. Love that scent of rosemary which I pot each year. Really enjoy cutting my own fresh herbs to use in my meals..
Dirt digging lifts my spirits I have been doing it all my life, early memories with my granpap Teofil digging in the dirt, maybe I was 4? And this year is no different. I resisted a temptation yesterday to buy more roses for the very diminished front rose garden, but going along the aisles I talked myself out of it. Jerry was better at digging the deeper holes for rose bushes, here and I worry about their winter survival. I have lost most of the ones I started with. In summer we get the dreadful Japanese beetles here and they have no repellant so that means I have to catch them by hand, usually early in the morning and drown them in a jar, just like my grandma Rose did except her jar had kerosene and I use only detergent in water. I guess I will have to be content with my memories of my 400 roses in CA.
Being a local friend too he asked me how I was doing and getting used to being by myself. I told him it is not easy after 53 years this is a new routine but I am not the only one living alone and I will fake it till I make it. He said, Well you might not always be alone, you are a good looking woman and some guy will come around." To which I almost shouted, "not for me never ever.." He laughed and said he knew he'd get a rise out of me that way. I suppose it was a complement as well as a tease, but I still miss Jerry and know I will forever,. I cannot expect different after 53 years. No one will ever replace him. I am financially ok and do not have to move nor adjust my lifestyle downward, do not have to work, did not have to make anymore quick decisions changing things. That is positive, many are not so fortunate, but we planned carefully and I worked at my career 34 years, and we saved. So here I am faking until I make it.
