Provident?!?!

Since last year we have planned on building raised beds in our yard to plant a garden. It always seemed like the next planting season was so far away. But it crept up on us, and we turned it into a stressful situation like we do with most things. We finally did it this past week and put in our garden. I can not say enough about how good it made me feel. I felt like I could have done pretty well in the 1700's after all! We really worked ourselves hard on Friday and Saturday morning to finish the job. Then I decided to clean up the garage a bit. And it seemed like more and more projects kept surfacing in a domino affect like manner. It boiled down to our water barrels and containers that have not been filled with water since we have moved. We finally brought ourselves to cleaning them out and filling them up. We looked like the crazy neighbors with all these brightly colored barrels on our front lawn. In Utah, people would not have thought very much about it, but here, everyone gave us the quizzical look of, "What on earth are you doing?"

Well, getting these 2 major projects done has left me with such a provident feeling, it is such a relief! I feel like I have not accomplished anything all winter, and have left it all up to one weekend. No wonder my fingernails were so healthy and long up until today.