I had forgotten how beautiful the lake is. We had stayed
away from the lake for almost a month to nurse our cat, MishMish, following her
surgery. The lake flashed its smile, almost laughed in the brilliant sunlight. The
water was almost warm. The foliage, last time so sparse, was now filled out in many
shades of green.
And the weeds! Our
parking area was embarrassingly over-grown with them. I hate to think what the
neighbors say over our neglectful landscaping. So my husband got out the lawnmower and I put on my gloves and attacked the
weeds. Two and a half hours and five buckets-full of weeds later we quit for
the day at eight o’clock. The grass is trimmed, but there are still more weeds to
remove from the parking area.
“There’s always tomorrow,” I told myself, thinking I’d
finish weeding in the morning and clean off with a swim in the lake.
Wrong. We woke up to a drizzle. I pulled two plants of
lettuce look-alikes from the garden, added from my compost pile, and planted
new seeds—lettuce, zucchini, bush and soy beans. Then the rain came in
earnest. It will, no doubt, help the
weeds I hadn’t gotten to to grow taller. More work to look forward to for our
next visit.
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