Frivolous Friday

May 25,2012

It has been  unusually warm and sunny  for Eastern Canada in May. Consequently I have been outside much more than usual and as I am 97% retired I am thoroughly enjoying it.  However, it has caused me to miss a few blogs, and instead of being  contrite, I am putting things in "my" perspective.  Putting  my  words on .... I almost said "paper" ....a blog, versus being outside enjoying the sun and working in my yard, well, even if you don't know me, you can guess which side of Lady Justice's scales are tipping!!

Now for the "frivolous" part.  While working in the yard today I was thinking of how some of what we do today would be so weird if seen by our ancestors, even as recent as  grandparents. Think about this. First of all I go to a store to buy plants to put in my garden.  "Big deal" you say, "so does everyone else".  but the ancestors who I will affectionately call "the oldies", planted seeds and waited to see if they grew.   I have a small  back yard, but it is pretty bare in places so off I go to the trusty garden center, and fill my trunk up with rolls of grass!!! Again , a fairly normal thing to do, but picture if you will the look on the "oldies" faces if they could see me buying  25-  3x1.5 foot rolls of grass!!! They would be bent over laughing or  feverishly "figgerin'" how much they could earn if they rolled up the "back 40" of their farm!!  Think about it ...... planting fully grown grass!!! O.K. I know what you are thinking.... the oldies hadn't' even heard of that kind of grass, so get with my program here!!!  Now , after  all this hard work , my husband and I take a break and sit on the back deck.... (porch as "they" called it) and instead of  sipping well water from a well used ( and God knows how bacteria laden)  dipper,  we go to  fridge and get two "bottles of water" Now I know for a fact that the mere thought of having to purchase water would be more than they could comprehend. But  even in their wildest dreams such an occurrence could not be true.

Alright, my evening, along with my back, legs and shoulders , is about finished and I am talking to a former neighbor about the weather..... well, what else do you talk to someone you haven't seen in years about when you have 10 minutes to kill..... and picking up my  rakes,  edgers, etc, when I bend down and  realize that the Nike shorts I am wearing  are ripped from top to bottom on one side, with only the waistband and hem intact!!!Oh, crap, now what to do...... I smiled, pretended like nothing was wrong and walked as gracefully as one can with arms full of  tools and and right thigh exposed , to the shed.   Definitely another thing that the female "oldies" could never imagine happening to them!!!!