Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Sunday, January 08, 2006
The Squirrels and Me
Or "You never miss your kitchen table 'til it's gone"
After a few false starts, we are now in the thick of our home renovation project, and it's playing serious havoc with my gardening (and everything else). My winter gardening activities consist of sipping tea, reading garden catalogs and books, and watching birds in the backyard. A lot of this takes place at the kitchen table, but the kitchen table is now in the family room and covered in drywall dust. The refrigerator and stove are in the dining room and covered in drywall dust. I'm not sure where anything else is, but I'm sure it's covered in drywall dust.
Last weekend, I watched a squirrel renovating a nest. Up the tree with a mouthful of leaves and down and up and down and up and down....so simple, and no drywall dust. But I expect we wouldn't be happy with walls made of leaves. What is drywall made of anyway?
So one night this week when I was lying awake wondering about windows, I tried to imagine how nice it will be when everything is finished and I'm sitting in my shiny new kitchen sipping tea and watching the birds and admiring the crocus and snowdrops and early narcissus.
2 Comments:
After everything is done you'll know every sacrifice was worth it.
Thanks for the encouraging words! We're seeing visible progress now.
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