Landscaping

With all that is going on in the world and my tiny little spec, I find myself doing another thing that I know absolutely nothing about - landscaping. My early years were spent in desert climates where landscaping was a matter of picking up trash that had blown into our yard which was dirt. I like plain dirt because you don’t have to water or mow it.

When I got to the city I discovered that you had to have grass and flower beds. I still don’t understand why. I don’t have any cows to eat the grass and if you want flowers, go by a florist shop and look through the window. If God had wanted us to have landscaping, he would have designed everything with borders, mulch and shrubs.

Truth is I was quite happy with what was in place when we bought this house. But the power that is, didn’t want everything outside going untouched. I will spare you all the details of what happens when you start digging up shrubs that have been in place for over 30 years. Think sprinkler pipes and roots. So now I have one bed cleaned out and ready for the mulch. Mulch is supposed to help on weed control, but the weeds don’t know that. Soon I will be planting something, but not cotton which is what I suggested.

All I can tell you is that if I planted a rock, it would die.

PMO
2017