Sunday blogging

Good morning!
Although it's almost afternoon.
There are birds all over my front porch eating cat food again.
And...Chihuahua pee.  That annoying dog has to mark every single thing on that porch 100 times.
It's too hot for him outside and too cold for him inside, (although I won't let him roam freely inside due to his marking habit) so he spends his life in a small kennel.  He loves his kennel.  We have to cover it like a cave so he can curl up and sleep his days away.  As he gets older he spends more and more time in that box.  We've all come to the conclusion that the dog has brain damage.  Although, it could just be a Chihuahua thing.  I imagine the first owners who had him probably kicked him around a bit.  They took a sharpie and wrote his name on his collar and dumped him in our neighborhood.  My husband found him in our front flowerbed 8 years ago or so.  He is the worlds most useless dog.
My husband loves him and we all tolerate him barely.  Poor Brinkley is bored to death because his brother dog is a hermit.  Being a bit of a hermit myself and loving my box (my house) I can see how my husband probably gets bored to death with me.  LOL!  NO....HE LOVES ME!!!  At least I don't pee on everything or chew holes in all the blankets.

It is a beautiful Sunday.  No church today because of the holiday.  But then I have church all day every day of my life, so that's fine with me. 

We have these annoying large plants that grow wild all over the property.  They are everywhere this year.  They are so hard to pull up and we have so many on two and a half acres, you can imagine.
But....they bloom with yellow flowers.  Some have started.  One year we left them alone and the rain was just perfect and they bloomed everywhere.  I'm praying this is another year like that one.  So beautiful, even if only for a short time.  I remember that year so well because the bucks were running at full speed all over the property, during rutting season, so much so that we had to be careful when we walked off the porch.  You had the chance of getting clobbered.  It was the most amazing thing.

I'm not sure what today will hold.  I have my hubby home all to myself.  The possibilities are endless.
:)

I was reading some posts on facebook recently and noticing an epidemic on the subject of depression.
Gosh...it makes me sad.  Depression is such a horrible thing. I truly believe it's the worst illness anyone can have.  To be hopeless...... 
I learned so much when I went through the process of counseling.  I learned that my brain was trained to be hopeless in a way.  Getting information, as a child, from adults who don't think about what a child should hear.  A child should NEVER be a parents friend so much so, that you share intimate and adult related subjects.  No child should have all the information of a divorce.  No child should have all the information of a relationship between parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents or even the information of the world.  A child needs to be allowed to be a child and feel protected from these things.  It's hard enough just being a child and learning the world, without having all the extra information that adults dump on them.  If you have a child with depression...ask yourself how much do they know that they shouldn't.  If you are an adult with depression, ask yourself how much you knew as a child that you shouldn't have.  Ask yourself how safe you felt or feel.
Some people have depression that is chemical, medical, or based on injury.  That's a totally different thing. 

The sun is out and everything is so green. 
Two of my avocado pits are FINALLY rooting.  I have one growing a little tree in a pot. 
I have all my little plant science experiments all over the front and back porch.  I'm growing things from scraps all the time just to see if I can.  Why does that amuse me so?  It feels like a little miracle that I get to watch happen.
I think I have about 10 tiny lemon trees and 4 celery plants and three pineapple plants. 
What on earth will I do when we get a freeze?  I really need to start thinking about making a greenhouse.

I'm on my second cup of chocolate coffee.  I should probably ask my hubby what he wants to do today before the day gets too far along.  :)
Have a wonderful Sunday!!!
Hugs
Shannon

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