How quickly the weeks pass and it’s already Saturday again and time for Six Word Saturday. If you would like to participate please either click on the picture above or click this link.
SWEEPING THE PATIO – CLEARING THE LEAVES
At the beginning of my blogging adventures I wrote a post about Gardening and Other Pleasures and bemoaned the fact that I had a tree that dropped its leaves all around the back courtyard. I quickly reminded myself that I should be grateful that I had a back courtyard and the lovely tree to drop its leaves. That was in April.
By May I had the offending tree cut back ( not down because the tree man thought its roots were probably holding up the bank) and I wrote a blog What a Difference a Day Makes about the patio minus the leaves. Now some 14 months on and the tree is sprouting (and has been for some months) and dropping those bl–dy leaves again.
After days of rain when leaves and everything else is damp underfoot, today dawned bright, sunny and dry. And the temperature even climbed up to about 15 degrees Centigrade (about 60 degrees Fahrenheit) so we swept up the leaves again. What a difference looking out the dining room doors now with the leaves gone – until tomorrow or Monday that is. Yes, I am reminding myself again, just how lucky I am to have this pleasant, safe and secure, warm house, a courtyard and trees and of course, my faithful companion Lotte. Not to forget my friend who willingly helps me with these chores.
Leaves have gone
So now the next job is to paint all the brickwork white. As you can see parts of it were white at some stage. And from that post in May last year :
“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. ”
D. Elton Trueblood, 1900 – 1994,
noted 20th century American Quaker author and theologian.
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Yes, cleaning up after nature can be a never-ending chore, but at least we get to enjoy the beauty of it all. Keep reminding yourself of the good 🙂
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It is a chore but once I get started it’s really quite therapeutic. 🙂
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love that brick wall, it’s going to look smashing once painted. If I lived close by, I’d be over to help you with that. Perhaps the next wind will change direction and the bloody leaves will fall somewhere other than your place!!
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Come on over to help Joss or just to chat. Would love to see you. 🙂
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One day I’m going to take you up on that and pop down for a wee visit.
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Wouldn’t that be great!!!
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What a difference a tree makes! We have lost a few and it is like losing old friends.
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Mine wasn’t like losing an old friend It was a menace overhanging the roof and blocking the gutters so it had to go. 🙂
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Your white walls will make the courtyard a cheerful place to sit. Do the birds come and play in your tree ?
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Now that the tree is cut right back very few birds come to it, but I did see a squirrel once. 🙂
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You’ll have to share “after” pictures once the bricks are painted. I’m sure it will look quite nice.
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Yes I shall do that Patti. Thanks for the thought. 🙂
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