Gardening and waiting for the call.

As the wait goes on. Patrick is still the positive one, but my patience is running thin. It has now been nine months since our paperwork has been submitted to Russia. One of my great joys is gardening so in the past month I have started my flower/vegetable garden. For those who have not seen my garden, it is 16 x 24 ft and is enclosed with a white picket fence. This really is my favorite thing to do. I love to watch everything grow and every year it is different. To see things that are started from a seed and become so beautiful. I can spend hours in my garden, even the weeding part I enjoy. This year I have started from seeds cantaloupe, lettuce, spinach, chard, beans, mini pumpkins and sunflowers. I will add to it this weekend with some tomatoes, zucchini and red pepper plants. And I can't forget my herbs, basil, rosemary, parsley, chives and thyme and mint. This year I have added some perennials like daisy's, foxglove, lupin, gladiola's and rose bushes. It should be a fine harvest! I can't wait to have my little helper next year!

I found the picture above, from the first year I started my garden.
In the meantime I am praying for the phone to ring.
I thought this poem below was perfect for this post.


My Adopted Child....I did not plant you... true. But when the alternate prayers for sun and rain are counted, when the pain of weeding And the pride of watching are through, I will hold you high. A shining sheaf Above the thousand seeds grown wild, Not my planting, but, by heaven My harvest. My own child! Unknown Author