Summer Days

We are experiencing a typical summer this year and I find myself looking forward to cooler days ahead (way ahead) and thinking of all the projects I want to do once it does cool down some. Weeding and watering takes up most of my gardening time right now and I continue to pray for rain. The Lord always does a much much better job of watering my garden than I can ever manage. I constantly find myself thinking of what needs to be moved where. Can a gardener ever be totally content with their landscape? Seems like after living with a plan for several years I can see the big picture and then back I go to moving and cutting back. I am ready to start rootings for next year but guess I will wait a month or so because it would be difficult keeping things alive that long with the heat and drought. I continue to savage plants from the dump and find such satisfication in redeeming a discarded plant and see it come back to life. Some plants are just so resilient, thankfully. Learned of a new plant yesterday, a flapjack succulent. Will try to get my boss to purchase some or else I will watch for the tropical plant truck at work to show up. Maybe he has some. I love when he appears at the nursery as it reminds me of when I was a child and the popsicle truck drove through the neighborhood. Seems like it was often at naptime and we would beg our mom for change, search throughout the house, her purse for 23 cents then we would chase him down before he left our neighborhood. Well, the tropical plant man doesn't play music on his truck, but when he shows up at the nursery we are able to purchase all different kinds of tropicals from him at cost. His truck is like a treasure trove of goodies. We all hurry to help unload whatever our boss is buying that day and then we are able to make our selections.