For the Love of My Garden
- Rosetta Mandisa
- Sep 2, 2020
- 1 min read
This has been a year of many firsts for me. When the pandemic began in the Spring, I was forced to work from home. Completely grateful for my job, however, being at home for days on end forced me to focus on home repairs and decorating ideas I’d been putting off since we purchased this home three years ago. At my sister’s direction, I began with something easy, my home office. Since I spent so much time in there anyway, decorating it should be fun. As it turns out, it was fun! My mother was always the creative one in our family. She could build, decorate and organize without a second thought. Not realizing it until now, I think I inherited my mother’s abilities. The next room was the guestroom. I figured if I messed it up, I could just close the door and come back to it again somewhere down the line. There was an old dresser in there that I thought about throwing out. Well, Pintrest convinced me that I could refurbish it and with a little help from the friendly folks at Home Depot, I had sand paper, paint (Bonfire Night), new knobs and a general idea about what I was doing. The guestroom actually turned out better than I could have imagined and everyone who has seen the dresser has asked where I bought it from. They are surprised to know that I refurbished it! Working on the inside of the house was great but I wanted to do some things to the outside as well and one of those things was a garden. I’ve started growing small veggies in the house like bell peppers, green onions and garlic but what I really wanted was a garden full of fresh herbs and vegetables.
Yaya’s Garden
After spending a day with my sister going over different ideas for a garden, this past weekend we decided to meet at our favorite home improvement store, Home Depot. She was in the market for paint and I, lumber! In the lumber department we showed Jo a picture, (from Pintrest), of a raised garden bed that we liked. Jo found and cut the pre-treated wood and got us set up with deck screws. He said it would be a real easy project and that I could totally do it!
Late Saturday night and early Sunday I lugged wood, drilled holes and then drilled deck screws to create my dream raised garden bed. I was about four screws shy of completion when I ended up with an injury. The drill jumped from a screw and hit my thumb. There was some bleeding and some pain but not enough to make me quit! I got the last four screws in, ran in the house to wash my wound, packed my thumb in ice and went back outside to marvel at the job I’d just finished all by myself.
My Love’s sweet Grandma Rose once said to me, “it ain’t no good, if ain’t no trouble in it.” I guess the injury to my thumb was the trouble that made this project good. I have never tried to plant and grow a thing in my life yet I am so looking forward to this process.
Peace be still…:)
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