Some Things That Look Broke Don't Need Fixing: I wish you had written this last week

» CarolWallace - I wish you had written this last week

That's when I was going mad trying to do both the housework and the gardening just right. I can usually go through the house without evennoticing the growing collection of dust bunnies but can't help trying, every year, to hope that the garden will reach some mythical state of perfection that exists mainly in my imagination.

But when you have avid gardeners coming all the way from Tasmania and other of our garden editors driving a few hours to meet them - suddenly it seemed that everything had to be perfect.

Luckily, it rained the entire week before Gay arrived. Why lucky? Because there was absolutely nothing I could do about the garden but finally shrug and hope for the best. And you're right - we all survived the roses in need of deadheading and the peonies with bowed heads and all the other things that couldn't be helped in the circumstances. We even survived the broken vaccuum cleaner and slightly fuzzy carpets.

-- posted by CarolWallace