This is the 15th entry from my draft manuscript, working title: Spring in the Cottage Garden. You can read the first instalment by tapping below:
My enthusiasm is waning. After the winter hiatus early spring was such an easy time to work. Plants finally begin to grow again, more birds and bugs and butterflies are out and about, and the ground is lovely and damp making weeding a task that doesn’t require an hour of yoga to feel like a functional human being again.
It’s well into mid-spring now: Labour Weekend, the official gardening weekend for us. It feels like it, too, warm and sunny with tomorrow forecast to be even warmer and sunnier. If I was still in Auckland I’d be planning a trip to the beach, but now I have a house and a garden, so it’s housework and gardening (and writing!) on the cards for me.
I slept in today, and forgot to take my camera out with me on my morning walk through the garden so couldn’t photograph the butterfly feeding on one of our wild blossom trees (not sure wh…
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