Yesterday I managed to plant a few tomato plants, green peppers and flowers. I decided better late than never, and will now cross my fingers 🙂
Today a little more garden work plus busy in the house – I have company coming next week and really must sort out what I need for groceries and get some baking done. It has been unbearable hot and humid – no help at all in gettingthings over and done with in a hurry.
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Father Corapi’s order has issued a press release. By the sound of things, Corapi, AKA the Black SheepDog, is no angel and has, depsite his vow of poverty, been living in the lap of luxury. I haven’t checked but, in light of Father Corapi’s actions over the past few weeks, I fully anticipate that he will deny, or has already denied, any and all wrong-doing.
05 July 2011: Press Release Concerning Fr John Corapi from SOLT Regional Priest Servant
05 July 2011: Fr. Corapi’s order finds him guilty
Enough for now,
Sylvia
Sylvia good for you for getting out in the garden. I hope you are able to produce some good peppers and tomatoes. One of my goals for this summer is to spend more time in the garden. I really haven’t got past the weeding stage yet. We’ve been in this house since my eldest was one. At the time it was a mature landscaped yard, with mature weeds to boot. My priority was always the kids, so the weeds have just had more time to mature. I can’t help but see an analogy to my life in it. I remember telling my therapist that I was weeding so much that I’d close my eyes and that’s all I’d see. I believed that if I worked hard enough I’d eventually be able to eradicate them. Some years I’d do better than others, sometimes I’d get so depressed I’d just ignore them hoping they’d go away. Over 15 years later, and the weeds persist. I now recognize that no matter how hard I work, I’ll never be able to rid the garden of all of them, but by spending some time occasionally out in the yard, I’ll keep them under control. The flowers and shrubs that are important to me will receive more of my time and energy so they can give show off their splendid colours. I’m looking forward to my second year of home grown blueberries. Twenty years ago, I hoped to rid the Catholic Church of all its weeds. They still persist, but with blogs like this we can at least hold them accountable and allow our faith to grow.
Proud Survivor, I am still praying for you and offering up my Mass and Communions for you and your return. May GOD in His Mercy hold you close to His Sacred Heart.
A wonderful analogy proudsurvivor. In my haste to get something aside weeds growing I took the lazy man’s route – I did a super quick turn of the sod and semi-buried the weeds. No weeding.
So, for a moment in time the raft of weeds are out of sight, but, they’re still there. It’s all a bit of an illusion. I see the tips of the weeds peaking out all over the place. They are still very much much there, those which were, and those which are to come. In short order my little wilted flowers will be fighting for survival!
Tomatoes and peppers, on the other hand, are fine. They are in plantars with good clean soil. It won’t take a lot to keep the few weeds which mange to sprout there at bay 🙂
You’ve got me thinking!