Embrace Your Destiny: Flower Therapy

Bob picking for an order

Brother Bob grows the most magnificent flowers. He and sister-in-law Judy have always said, “Anytime you want flowers, just ask.” Why I never thought to “just ask” for weekly fresh flowers before, I don’t know. 

When we first moved back home in 2012, I helped Judy in the garage preparing flowers for wholesale or retail. For me, this was a course in  Flowers 101. I learned how to care for them, how to prolong freshness and how to arrange. Judy was patient, thorough, and creative. Bob grows the flowers, but Judy was and still is the glue that keeps their business, Poppins Posies going. I always had flowers those summers.

Embrace Your Destiny: Embrace Aging

In Hawaii late 1990's

Wouldn’t it be nice to age without aging? Maturity and wisdom that come with age are great. It’s the physical body breaking down that is troubling. With each new decade some new issue shows up. The bones and feet continue to break down. Throw in a fall and break something or have a bad illness and everything goes sideways.

Embrace Your Destiny: Enjoy Creating

Tomato Plant on Steroids

“Donnie, check this out! It looks a lot like a tomato plant but how can that be? We didn’t plant tomatoes here last year. Should we leave it or let it grow?”

We both agreed to let it grow to see if it was indeed a tomato plant. Confirming didn’t take long. It morphed into a big plant quickly. Now, it is an out of control tomato plant and exactly why we decided not to plant tomatoes in the first place. My handrail is useless!

We’ve enjoyed watching our kitchen garden mature into it’s summer splendor. So far, it’s mostly avoiding beetles, worms, fungus and other pests we don’t know how or what to spray for. We plant marigolds to add color and to keep plant diseases away. Seems to be doing a good job so far.