Empty Pots & Pans II

I stole Tammie's title b/c I couldn't resist. The irony was just too much for me because that's what's in my garden. Micah called at 8:15 to tell me it was hailing in Burnett and I should put the car in the garage. I managed to get it in without scraping the sides. Then I was on a quest for everything I could find to cover my plants. A few weeks ago the hail completely obliterated half of my garden, and I wasn't about to let it happen again. So, what you have is a garden full of pots and pans. We look like the Beverly Hillbillies! We have a backboard of a basketball net, a broiling pan, a rabbit tray, 4 cooking pots, 2 lids, a strainer, 2 buckets, clay pots, and starter pots. After I got all done I looked outside and laughed. It looks so much like my Granny's backyard and garden.

She never threw anything away, especially if it could be used for something else. Toilets and tubs were reused for flowers. Old washers the same. Tea kettles, pots, coffee buckets, you name it. It all could be used for keeping dogs from digging, hail from squashing plants, birds from eating tomatoes, or catching some rain.

This habit of hers was partly because she had no trash service. If she wanted to get rid of it, it had to be burned. If it couldn't be burned, it had to be hauled away. And when you have 100 acres...I guess you just decide to keep it.

Of course with everything so nicely protected, we received no hail.

Blah!

Maybe it's too much Easter candy.

Maybe it's too much out-of-town-ess.

Maybe it's not going to church on Easter Sunday.

Tweedle Dumb died today (hamster).

I just feel blah. Maybe it's like Tammie said. I am such a take the bull by it's horns kind of person. I don't like waiting on other people's plans. (Which makes it hard to wait on God's plans). And I don't like the way we do school right now. I want something different. I want to change my entire perspective. But...I really want God's perspective. But, sadly I don't feel like doing all the work of reading and researching to figure out what I want to change TO. I just know what I want to change FROM. But it's a start, right? In the meantime I guess I'll roll in my blahness.

Drama!

Oh, the drama with ladies. I cannot imagine what God thinks sometimes. So and so hurt my feelings...I hurt her feelings....will we do co-op? Will we not? What will it look like? We must all visit around and find out what everyone is thinking. I can do classes with you but not with her. I can do service projects with these families but not with others....Blah...Blah...Blah...Can you tell I am a little frustrated? Not with any person just the enemy and how he comes in to destroy everything he can. The ladies are all my friends and all very precious. I don't want to have to NOT be in co-op with them. I just can't do the workload anymore. Is there anything so wrong with that? Sorry to bore you all with this information, but it is what is going on in my life right now and the reason for me not posting very much. It is all consuming!

I have even considered moving to get away from it all! Too bad we just refinanced the house. How's that for conflict resolution? Not very good I guess.

It's times like these that I thank God for a levelheaded husband who can see through all the murkiness and choose to wait on the Lord. God, give me a spirit of humility to work through all this yuck.