{"id":4756,"date":"2013-04-11T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=4756"},"modified":"2016-09-26T21:24:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T02:24:49","slug":"garden-expansion-take-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=4756","title":{"rendered":"Garden Expansion… Take One"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oh, look who decided to show up?<\/em><\/p>\n

We are well into April and I am grateful to report that spring has finally come. It feels like we are playing catch-up in a major way, as we look back at our vegetable garden this time of year last year and can’t help but feel a pang of sadness that not only all of our planting was done, but our veggies had already done a whole lot of growing! We have nothing planted yet, and won’t for at least another week, as we are still in need of topsoil, more compost, and maybe even manure this year. Oh. And a fence. Yes, a fence would be good.<\/p>\n

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After 10 days (with 3 days off thanks to my Kansas City trip) of hard work in the veggie garden: pulling, digging, hauling and dumping; and the flower gardens: weeding, raking, lifting, mulching, mulching, mulching!!! my arms and lower back ache. Even my abs, which haven’t seen action in a full year, are remembering their purpose. And something has happened to me. The missing piece in the balance that equals happiness falls back into place. I eat right, try to get a decent night’s sleep, keep my home tidy and kitchen tidier, see friends and have a pretty good social life. But all of those pieces float around above my foggy mind until… I remember. I kick my ass with hard physical labor, sometimes in the sunshine, sometimes in the near dark and pouring rain, and suddenly, I can exhale.\u00a0Oh. This is what I’ve been needing.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

And all that is just the bonus before we get to enjoy it: we are expanding our garden to double the size it was last year and putting in a proper fence. We are garden people. We love the work it takes, the patience, the beauty, what it teaches our children about food and the earth and their ability to nurture things into ripeness, then reap the bounty of their hard work. Gardening is kind of a metaphor for life to us.<\/p>\n

But right now is the hard part. Right now we have to add and add and add before we can take anything away. We have to deal with ugly and slow and messy<\/em> before we can even chart out what we want to grow. We do this work with thoughts of years to come and mouths to feed and the joy that the garden will bring us. But you know what? That slow, messy process is healing me. And so…\"DSC_0030\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Patience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, look who decided to show up? We are well into April and I am grateful to report that spring has finally come. It feels like we are playing catch-up in a major way, as we look back at our vegetable garden this time of year last year and can’t help but feel a pang … Continue reading “Garden Expansion… Take One”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,99],"tags":[115,173],"class_list":["post-4756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden","category-green-living","tag-garden","tag-green-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4756"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12208,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756\/revisions\/12208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}