It's all Good

 Life tends to be pretty busy these days. 


Everyone you talk to tells you the same thing.


My friends are working overtime, checking their"devices" for the latest, running their kids here and there, and of course I'm getting ready for "Tomato Days".


We're tagging plants, filling orders and just trying to keep our heads above the water.


It's okay though. I have my little breaks for sanity and look to the really cool things in my life to keep me afloat.


How about this?


The Tomato Poem


Time to talk about tomatoes,
Not peas carrots or potatoes.
Red, pink, yellow or green.
Each tomato makes the scene.
Some tomatoes are so sweet,
Doesn't it make you want to eat?"

How much better does it get than that?  My Mollie is learning about poetry in school and can come up with a poem for every occasion.  That just makes me smile.  Inside too.




And then of course there are the puppies. Now it is three.We have our walk every morning before I start work.  People I don't know wave at me as they head down our road to go off to work for the day.  I must look quite the sight with my multi-lead leash and my three best buds in tow.  Wainfleet is a great place to live.  Everybody waves...do people other places do that too?

I love my dogs.  Love. Many times they are sanity. I've received criticisms about my two most recent additions, rescued from a kill shelter in Ohio. I guess American dogs aren't worth saving? One criticism was from a pet food store owner.  He doesn't get my business anymore.  Some things in life are really not other people's business to comment on. I've done what was right for me.


I've been lucky this spring to have been surrounded by great people. That brings me peace. In some ways, it worked out okay for me that the spring weather was poor...I've been unwell in an undiagnose-able sort of way. Lost a lot of weight and energy. My sisters, my friends and especially my Lisa have pulled me through it all.  Everyone needs a Lisa to help them out.


But you can't have mine.  She is a hard worker, has genuine enthusiasm and the best, sunniest outlook ever. Three years ago when Lisa first came to help me, she wasn't a gardener. That year her first veg garden went in, and it has expanded ever since. 


My sister Susanne too, and my friend Emily. I'd be up the creek without everyone coming to my rescue.


And Erin, tag writer extraordinaire.  Since when do people you don't know very well offer their time and effort so freely? I'm blown away by your desire to help me out.  You are the best.  I see friendship , beyond the tags, in our future.


Interesting things on the farm keep you afloat too.  A muskrat in the pond for example, and all I can catch in my live trap is racoons.

We're incubating duck eggs and when I candle the eggs I can see the little heads and bills.
Wow...just wow.

Pickle rules.

And there's a stray cat we've named Percy.  We're feeding him, and he's such a nice boy.  Could be a trip to the vet in the future and a new cat...making number six.  As long as Pickle can accept him.


Of course there are the people starting to trickle in to pick up plants before the craziness of Tomato Days.  A chicken farmer from Hagersville who loves his Red Belly tomato.  Irena and her Beaver Dam pepper (she's 94 and likes the heat!), Tina from Niagara Falls and her unbridled enthusiasm for heirloom tomatoes ...on and on it goes.


I'm so happy to see you all and NEVER say "sorry to bug you!" You sure aren't.
And I'm looking forward to seeing even more of you at "Tomato Days".


And if you want more time to talk, come on Sunday.  There are loads of tomatoes..I won't run out and the pace is a bit slower.


Saner.  One of those times to breathe in the good Wainfleet air and realize it is all so very good.


Thanks.