$50 a Day Habit

I was so proud of my little patio, why hadn't I done this years ago? I probably wouldn't have all those X-husbands if I'd just understood that a garden is all one really needs to be happy and satisfied in life.

I carried all 4 tons of stones up the hill and worked most assiduously to get every stone level. It never occurred to me to use a level, I did it by digging a hole and seating them until they were solid, shimming them up with little flat pebbles. I marveled at the way the edges all seemed to match and fit together. I felt like a sculptor.

Even though I got those stones very close I wanted to finish it off by putting some botanical mortar in between the cracks so I headed back to the nursery for ideas. Well, there were many solutions, thyme, corsican mint, baby tears, chamomile and mosses, gorgeous mosses, irish and scotch. And korean grass, which was the most pricey. I bought everything.

I didn't even ask what would be best for the hot, dry full sun conditions. I found myself going back to the nursery everyday at lunch to get more and more stuff. I'd fill my elderly Honda Prelude (Little Pony) with flats and pots of anything I fancied. At 4:29 I was out of my cubicle, out the door and speeding down the freeway to get home so I could plant before dark, spring was coming and I was euphoric, the worst part was that I really felt like I knew what I was doing.

And, I ordered 4 more tons of B.C.