Getting Ready for Summer

Thank you all very much for your notes on the last entry. I appreciate them very much.

I went to town yesterday and bought lots and lots of impatiens. When I got back, I parked my car behind Fred’s car in the driveway instead of on the street as I usually do, and noticed that Fred had put out Hugo, his wheeled walker to help me. So, I loaded up the seat with the flats and it was easy to push them to the bottom of the steps and from thence lift  them on the deck.

Today, I filled four balcony boxes with pink and purple impatiens plus three little pots for the table. All that is needed now are some petunias for the two hanging baskets. Tomorrow I am visualizing myself with a bucket of hot soapy water giving the chairs and the table a good scrub. I can do this easily because I can sit down to scrub with a long-handled brush and them rinse everything off with the hose which is easy to reach. I gave the flowers I planted today a good, but gentle, soaking and went over to the sunny spot by the landlord’s garden and watered the tomato I planted a few days ago in the pot I used last year. This year I got a tomato cage instead of the stick I used to support it last year. I will take pictures when the chairs are clean and when the flowers have convinced me they are going to survive!

The final thing I need to do {and this will probably be left until I have gone to town for petunias and filled the hanging baskets} is to throw away stuff on the deck that needs to be disposed of and tidy away the bird feeders until the fall.

"You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are

happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but

trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change

your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to

correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working."

Emmett Fox