Sage means wisdom. With new projects you need: ‘the serenity to accept the ones you can’t do, the courage to take on the ones you can do, and the wisdom to know the difference’. New projects, without wisdom, look like this.
- Touch up the paint on a white house, without checking the paint colour. Result, white house with cream patches.
- Grow onions because it is nice burying baby onions, but boring watering them. Result. Onions will be exactly the same size in 6 months.
- Sellitonebay, loose interest and don’t post item to buyer. Result. Bad rating, no money.
- Tidy up out of control fig tree, with a blunt saw and no tree surgeon training. Result. Some branches are impossible to reach and others left growing in the wrong direction.
Back to the sage. It’s surrounded by a ground elder, which is a Bad Weed. Today’s pointless new project was to rip that all out. The weed won. There were too many roots and excited chickens trying to help. Chickens also need new projects, so I left them to it.
Here they are surveying the work area. Chickens and sage do go very well together.
Meanwhile outside the garden. American cities are in terrible turmoil, Conservative MP’s are drowning in emails from angry constituents and everybody is wondering what ‘back to normal’ might mean.
Delightful and funny. We giggled our way through. Xx