Busy this past weekend with helping the community learn about growing food and organic gardening and teaching children to plant seeds. Sometimes you see the magic sparkle in a child's eyes and you realize you have sparked another future gardener! Working in the earth for many of us is better than therapy or legal medication.
I learned this week that I cannot walk and sneeze at the same time! I injured my little toe and now am trying to sit and ice it and pretend I am a slug. (It takes very little pretending.) I have posted
on my other blog another reason I am inside today...in case you are interested.
Sneezing is a very dangerous activity. Particularly while driving, but I guess walking too.
ReplyDeleteI always plant cucumbers with our granddaughters. It is a favourite food and they love to see the plants every time they visit. They love the results best of all. Passing on the joy of gardening is important and such fun.
ReplyDeleteI have seen the sparkle in a child's eyes when they realize that food can be grown from the earth.. a great lesson for children to learn as many do not realize food is not always to be found on a grocers shelf. -- barbara
ReplyDeleteEven when the first decade of my life was spent in town, I still had exposure to plants, relatives farms, so nature's aspects were just naturally absorbed. Years later it was a surprise to realize there were so many others who had no awareness, much less any exposure to nature's miracles. Wonderful fun exposing children, especially, to such life. Well, that's an unusual result from walking and sneezing at the same time. I'd be more likely to spring a leak. I guess the lesson to be learned is to stand in place if you feel a sneeze coming on.
ReplyDeleteI imagine it would feel rewarding to grow things that can be eaten, even though I have a black thumb.
ReplyDeleteOuch! Hope your toe heals in time for you to give the kids their next lesson. It sounds like so much fun.
ReplyDeleteGrowing food is fun for lots of us. And yes, sneezing can be dangerous!
ReplyDeleteMy sympathies regarding your toe. A couple of weeks ago I whack one of my toes on the solid leg of my coffee table! The air turned blue around here for a while! It did hurt...and hurt for a couple of weeks!! Take care! :)
ReplyDeleteSorry about your toe. Hope it's better.
ReplyDeleteIf you press the base of your nose between the nostrils above the lip, then you can stop a sneeze. Works for me.
Careful don't sneeze your soul out;) Toe rupture is very painful, I am always catching my toes on things, I think a couple of toes are broken because of it. Lovely that you help teach children to grow things.
ReplyDelete"Working in the earth for many of us is better than therapy or legal medication."
ReplyDeleteYes, but what about illegal? Huh?
I love to garden and agree that it's the best therapy. Ouch about that toe! :-)
ReplyDeleteHppe you have had it exrayed. Yup, gardening is good for the soul. :)
ReplyDeleteI've broken toes that way, be careful. I just taped mine to the next toe, that was what they did at the doctor's office, it helped. I gardened with my kids and now my grandkids have made a vegetable garden. Wonderful work you do.
ReplyDeleteDo you move too fast? I go at things with gusto and always end up hurting myself.
ReplyDeleteI think gardening is good therapy when you finally get some rewards! I still keep trying when it keeps failing too.... it's a lesson in persistence!
ReplyDeleteSorry about your toe! My little middle one has been broken for weeks, not set correctly n still flopping around, yet I stay up n keep walking n working!