Growing Season
The time of year you always need to mow the lawn.
I don’t follow a calendar, not modern or otherwise.
My seasons ebb and flow between seasonal work, demands of the wild yard, and absolutely nothing to do but explore the secrets inside the house.
Currently I’m in “Growing Season”, which is a pocket of time in between Busy Outside Season and Busy Fall Season. It starts at the moment I go from having near full time employment, to technically I don’t have a job until the end of August.
It’s the time I look around my garden and realize how much got away from me during Busy Outside Season, the time at which I’m attempting to balance a near full time job and my grand garden plans of Pre-Outside Season. Stuff grew when I wasn’t paying attention. Everything needs weeded. I need to mow. I should make bread. Maybe muffins?
As I start to catch up on all the neglected aspects of my garden and home, I also start to breathe. I sleep in, just a little. Sometimes. I write. I still spend a lot of time outside, but this time I’m paying attention. I worry about money several months from now. I get annoyed with the household for not being more helpful.
I’m still busy, just in an entirely different way.
Like the plants I’m desperately trying to keep alive, I’m growing.
Glass Gem Corn growing with Tiger’s Eye Beans. Patch mostly weeded, for now.