Showing posts with label mowing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mowing. Show all posts

June 25, 2008

Awesome Day

This one is looking toward the old sugar shack and the relic of a farm tractor. That path was heavily grown in.
This one is heading toward the overgrown and filled in with sediment small pond, err stream now. This too was a narrow walk.
This is the over grown pond stream with freshly cut back grass and tall weeds as well as some of those wild rose picker bushes. At one time we could walk along the stream. But those picker bushes grew to fast to keep them clear. Now it will be a chore to make a walking path. This spot was quite nice when my grandfather was alive, he cleared a lot of brush and made it so pretty. Thirty years has a way of growing back nature when we don't keep it up.

These past two days have been busy one's. Yesterday after tackling the laundry, it was a nice drive to Keene, New Hampshire to meet up with Sister Juanita. I think that meeting went well. It turned out to be a nice day and a nicer ride home.

But this morning I was out the door after 8 this morning to get the mowing done. I finally finished late afternoon. This was a major mowing since we have the riding one back. What a difference it makes. But I still used the push mower for areas that are closest to the woods. Last week I was able to prune back some rhododendrons, this week it was pick up the cuttings. I didn't get a chance to prune some more since it took me over 5 hours to mow and clean up last weeks mess of clippings.

The pictures are of the overgrown area that once looked like a park, now it looks like nature at it's best. When I pruned a bush yesterday I was able to see a cute lime green frog clinging to a branch. That's the first time I've ever seen one like that. God does have a beautiful way of arranging nature and making critters.

My vegetable garden is all natural this year, a tiny tomato has made it's appearance, the lettuce is growing in containers this year. No fence around the garden, and good thing the lettuce is not there either. The area rabbit has eaten the kale and brussel sprout plants. They might come back since I put the leaves from the rhodies around them to hide them. I don't know if that will work but it's worth a try. The chipmunk has been having dessert with the strawberries.

Then when all that wonderful yard work was completed we dined out and now I finally am relaxing. One thing I enjoyed was the physical yard work. I never felt so alive as I did outdoors with God and the clean air from the trees. I noticed that yesterday also on my drive home, the difference where there are more trees and in the areas there are less. Maybe that's why Jesus loved the mountains so much. It was not only cooler but fresher in air and much closer to God.

May 21, 2008

Life At It's Best

I know there is always a lesson to be learned when things fail. It's learning to not be reliant on gadgets. When I was mowing yesterday with the push mower, the second mowing of the season. I came to the realization how spoiled we become when we have things in our life that makes things easier to do. I actually enjoyed walking around pushing the thing. It was the realization of the purpose behind it all. One it is good for exercise and the other was in knowing that someday we may not have these things to help make our lives easier. Someday it will all be gone and so will our reliance on money be gone too. A world that will be built on working together and no one will be greater or less.

Imagine a world where we would all work as one body to make what we need. A world that uses each other to build. But a world that is based on love and not on greed. It is a world void of money and power as God intended it. It is slowly coming to this where money will no longer be the major factor in it all. It has caused so much evil since it was first brought to the surface of mankind. It has separated the body of Christ in so many ways.

Well anyway as I was mowing and these thoughts came to mind of the simplicity of life we live, yet in a complex way. Everything that we have is made with the purpose of making life easier and yet when nature causes a power outage we are at a loss as to how to survive. We've become so dependent on those inventions that we fail to live life without these additional products. In a sense we have become a lazy society. When we prepare food, what do we use to cut the veggies, food processors or just a knife. Which is simpler in the long run. But the lessons of life aren't learned at all until we lose something that aids us and we open our eyes to the truth.

May 26, 2007

Mowing

It was a tough day, but one that was done in reflection. Jesus was the thought of the day and God had first place in it all. I think I kept myself so busy as to try to stop myself from thinking, but that didn't work too well. It did accomplish a lot though. I did have a wonderful time at one point while mowing the path in the woods. I had a moment of such absolute joy invade my being, it was wonderful. I thank God for his loving touch during a moment of sorrow for a loss in a job when an assignment is over. A weak moment and also a profound one.

I hope when I call Tuesday I will find out I will be placed at another job. When I had spoken to them when they called, it was mentioned about another place. But that isn't why I had calm, it is more from placing my trust in God. As understanding is part of what God is giving, then I can only rest in his hands.

One thing I did discover today, when I used the push mower I felt so good, not even tired. What a great way to get some exercise, unless it's getting to push it uphill then it can be a tough one. The garden is looking good and soon it will be weeding time if I don't get the newspapers laid down to keep them from taking over.

Lately there is so much that I would like to do and try to accomplish is cleaning up the grounds of some of the over growth and downed branches and trees. It all looks so overwhelming but little by little it will get done. My grandfather had cleaned up the grounds to the point that they looked like a park when he was alive. He also used to make maple syrup, that was quite a chore and a delicious one after it was collected and boiled. That was pepere's thing to do to keep him busy. They lived with us after memere had a stroke and changes in the Flats of Holyoke. There were definitely some fond memories about my mom's parents.

I hope everyone has a wonderful day tomorrow, it is Pentecost, a glorious day.
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