Thank you for your kindness in response to our sad news yesterday! It meant so much to hear such encouraging and gentle words, certainly helping in the healing and forgiving (of self) process. Also helping, of course, is time spent in the garden. I've been there as often as I can lately, soaking it all up and digging in deep. It just makes me so happy, tending that garden of mine! Annabel, still going strong on her little garden cottage after all these years, is still hanging out with me lots. We talked this year about taking the "cottage" (that her older sister built for her many birthdays ago), because it's about to fall down on its own, but she would have none of it. She loves that thing. And funny, like most garden cottages I wonder, she doesn't spend a lot of time IN it, just AROUND it. I love that. And since it looks as though she's here to stay in this corner of the garden, we got to work this weekend on making her a permanent garden bed for perennials. She's so pleased.
I've been cutting and drying herbs with a flurry of late, pulling in lemon balm, stinging nettle, mint, oregano, chives, sage, comfrey and more to dry for winter use. And each time I do, I drop a few in a half gallon mason jar and add water to drink throughout the day. Herbal hydration!
Oh, and the strawberries are ready! That's so exciting.
So much to be grateful for!
