Observations of Life

You may notice I have posted a photo today. As I write this, I am not sure which one I will post, but one will be/is there. I mention this because, as I stated before, I used a program from WordPress to set up this blog directly on our website. It was not the easiest way, but it gives me more control over it. Since day one in doing this, I have not been able to post a photo here. The part of the program that uploads the photo and other media files would not work. For a little more than a week I was a bit frustrated with this. I checked the support info, their forum and other sources for why this function would just not work. I found a lot of things that were supposed to fix this problem but they didn’t. But persistence paid off this last weekend. I found a posted fix, tried it and amazing myself, it worked. I tested it and the test photo was up on the blog. I took it down right away so as not to confuse people seeing a photo without reason. So, even though I am pretty good with computers, programs, and even some website html, I feel good when I can do something new with the computer.

As the last couple of weeks have gone by, the weather has been very mixed. We had some nice, somewhat warm days, some very wet days and some very cold, wet days which brought some snow to the upper part of the state. It’s days like this when you don’t quite know how to dress or what to prepare for. So when we do have some nice days, I took advantage of them. I patched a hole in the side of the little Chevy we have to get it ready for inspection. It needs a little sanding and some more paint and maybe I will touch up some other spots that need a little work.

On Saturday I went to a store that specializes in gardening and bought some tulip bulbs and with another good day, I will get them in the ground. I also got a medium-sized pot and potting soil to bring home. I wanted to try something different this year. The front of our house faces north and has several maple trees that shade the front yard. There is a patch of ground between the porch and a small wrap-around sidewall about a foot wide for flowers. Since it is shaded, I was not having much luck with flowering plants there. Originally it was ivy covered and getting out of hand. Years back I ripped out the ivy and tried to have flowers grow there without much luck. I then heard that Impatiens were good in shade. So this past spring I planted Impatiens and hoped for the best. And they did great. They filled in nicely and it was the best year ever for blossoming flowers in the front of our house.

Now with winter coming and Impatiens being an annual, they will soon die off and the colors will be replaced with the dreary colors of that time of year and eventually covered by a blanket of white snow. Snow’s nice, but it’s not a bouquet of flowers. So to do something about the absence of flowers and their colors, I took a little time to dig up some of the Impatiens and plant one in the pot I just bought and put another in a pot I found on our back porch. I packed them in the potting soil, watered them and gave them a home by one of our kitchen windows.

As I have written before in our newsletter, I enjoy the time I put into the flowers around the house and the few I have in the house. Outside I am trying to put in more and more perennials since they do keep coming back year after year. But I also enjoy the summer and fall times the flowering annuals bring. I have even started saving some seeds from this year’s flowers to plant the next spring. Obviously, this does take a little forethought and planning. And over the winter, I will have a passing thought of what I might try to do the next spring with the areas I want to expand in our flowering garden. I may even get a catalog in the mail from a bulb and seed company which will encourage me to try something different.

But it is the forethought that is important. A garden just doesn’t happen. And having flowers blooming in the house over the winter just doesn’t happen either. And from just a little “thinking ahead” and a little attention throughout the winter, we will have blossoming colors to remind us that spring will not be too far away. And there is something nice about something that is just a simple hobby and not a full blown obsession to cheer you up. It’s nice have these little positive distractions to make the coldness of winter a little more warmer inside of us. It’s nice that I share this with you and others. I hope you enjoyed it.

Now this had nothing to do with hypnosis or anything related to hypnosis. It was just something to think about how I like to make my/our lives a little more enjoyable. It kind of helps to change my mindset when it needs it. You know, maybe it is hypnosis.

Roger J. Willard
Willard Hypnosis Center
www.willardhypnosis.com

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