Planting!

You see behind Little Man tomato plants that came from Lowe's today. Confession: I had vowed to plant only heirloom tomato plants, but I've yet to plant the seeds. I'm a little nervous about the seed-planting thing. How far we humans have gotten from our food!

So, Anthony (the husband) and I went to Lowe's to get the materials we needed to place a raised bed of blueberries in the front yard. That disaster is a topic for another day--maybe tomorrow after we lay them in the bed. But, during one of our trips to Lowe's, we looked at the discount plant racks and found a beautiful Gerber daisy, some cosmos, and a container of budding, fruit-setting tomato. We were able to get three separate plants from the container. They may not be heirloom tomatoes, but they are insurance: We WILL have tomatoes (if only a few).

It was a frustrating day because we didn't get the blueberry bed set and planted before the sun came down. It was a good day because we were outside, playing in the dirt, getting our hands dirty together. I thought about how much money we're spending on this experiment, and I thought: So what! We are out in the beautiful weather, working together under blue sunny skies, and we're touching life; life that may actually feed us. But, if it doesn't feed our bodies, it has fed our souls. And don't we all need a little soul-feeding?