Garden II in two minutes

 I can grow stuff. This is a late planted garden because I realized I would have the time this summer. Cabbage, green and red onion, beets, lettuce, carrots, sage, parsley, basil, cosmos, and other stuff I cant think of right now. All in all doing well. But I planted things I don't know how to eat, and then I went to a swing shift so I don'

t cook and all these gorgeous herbs are going to waste (times up) so I decided to dry them and now I have dried thyme, basil, thai basil, rosemary, sage, dill, and a few others that I need to learn how to cook with.

It is beautiful to look at tho

cucumbers, jalapeno, tomatoes, peppers, pumpkin and potatoes not mentioned/pictured

also blackberry bushes producing pounds and pounds of blackberries this year!

School in two minutes

I'm sad that my daughter won't be going back to school because I am selfish and I miss time alone in the house. 

I'm glad she will be doing online classes because she will wiz through things and feel successful. 

I'm sad my son didn't have the same opportunity but I'm not sure he would have succeeded. 

I'm glad I won't have two kids doing online school to manage. 

I'm excited to see what the school year will actually look like. Hopefully it will go well and we can run smoothly (home, school, work).

I miss my alone time. 

Camping in two minutes

 We were able to pull the trailer to "our campground" for a couple days. It was really nice. I miss the lake. I miss sitting at the beach getting baked, coming home tan, I miss visiting with the Residential Row occupants, I miss yoga from last year, I miss connecting, or not, I miss hanging all day with or without the kids, I miss the comings and goings of the regular campers, I miss check in day and check out day.

Times up

Garden in two minutes

 I started a garden like most of the world in the Spring. I had the time. New job, less hours, more time. And I had the resources and support of the fam - well, the help to build the garden box and I've done the rest; moved dirt, yards and yards of dirt, procured seeds and plants, all the weeding, arranging and managing. I got a late start though so things are just now starting to be edible. I picked tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots and some herbs today. (Times up)

Two Minutes

I've come into contact with the book Atomic Habits twice in the past few days. I have yet to read it, but I will. The short and sweet of what I have heard about the book is, if you want to create new habits, start with two minutes of what ever it is you're trying to do. So, two minutes of writing. Here I am.

There are lots of things on my mind, but lets talk about my visit with a friend last night. 

Even though she is twenty years younger than me (how can someone who is 30 be twenty years younger than me???) we have gotten along really well since we met back when I trained her. Notable: she was the first trainee I brought home to meet the family. I don't know why but that was just how things worked out. (PS time's up). Anyway, when I left my job back in January she is one of the handful I have missed so we were finally able to get together last night, drink margaritas and talk about all the going-ons of the past six months. I really enjoyed it and can't wait to do something similar again.

This has happened with my old work-mates only a few times. A long walk last month with one of my girls, a random visit on the front porch a couple weeks ago, and a long near-emotional hug at the chiropractors office. I miss my peeps. That has been one of the hardest parts of starting a new job, nobody gets me -yet. Plus, I was a trainee, so I really didn't get to have a personality until I was on my own-ish. The fun side anyway, I didn't need to be a distraction or be distracted by myself, if that makes sense.

So I wonder what I can do two minutes a day to create connection?