Today I get to go home.  I’ve been pet sitting for a week.  I plan to visit the local stores to buy what I need that I can’t get so easily after getting back home.  

One of those items will be a frost cover for my largest lemon tree.  After the first night’s dip in temperatures, my husband said it wasn’t doing well.  He did cover it with something, but I don’t think it was thick enough.  Hopefully last night’s weather didn’t make it worse before I can get home with something better.  I did see online what looks like a more insulated tree bag.  I may order that, too.  Our other lemon trees are small enough where we turned over pots, buckets and an old kitchen garbage receptacle over top of them. That seemed to have worked better.

I also need to find more chick brooding lamps and bulbs to help warm the greenhouse better – or at least the area where I have placed the fall seedlings. I almost wish that I could simply drape another tarp right over the top of the greenhouse, but with so many nights forecasted to get into the 30s and 20s, I don’t know it that’s a good long-term solution. If propane heaters were better controlled and lasted more than a few hours, I would try that out. Maybe I need to just set up a bunch of clay pot heaters with candles. However, I’ve been trying to keep it dark in there by hanging ceramic warming bulbs. I’ve been concerned about animals trying to get in if they notice light inside the greenhouse.

I just remembered that I set up an insulating Compassion bubble around that larger lemon tree. Hopefully that helped.

I have been wanting to insert energy work into my gardening efforts. I’ve been forgetting about that. But since I’m returning home, I can focus more on that.

Yesterday I got my new index cards made for my card stands. I can make new cards for these gardening tasks.

Last night while talking to my husband, I really felt that I didn’t like being away from home so much. He’s not good at solving problems. He waited until last night to tell me the condition of that largest lemon tree. It’s so frustrating to be the only one who is willing to make things better. It’s been an ongoing issue. I don’t understand the lack of proactive action on his part. I have to be gone all of February, so I guess I have to make sure I have the greenhouse completely set up and organized and have all the supplies ready for starting spring planting. Then I can tell him exactly what needs to be done.

I’ve grown tired of trying to make things work as cheaply as possible. A lot of times that causes more headaches in the long run. I’m thinking about the greenhouse and trying to keep it warm (I bought a cheap greenhouse so that I could have something.) I didn’t expect such cold weather so soon. The weather has been different this Fall.

Regardless of the material, I guess any kind of greenhouse needs a way of becoming warmer during cold weather. From what I see online, I’m not the only one looking for an answer.

I think my frustration is born out of all that I’ve been trying to do on the new property as cheaply as possible and I have been the one becoming physically injured or impaired as a result. Finding the new grass cutting devices toward the end of summer was definitely helpful. I still have to do only a little grass cutting at a time because of the constant pressure I have to create with my hands to keep it running (it makes my joints hurt).

However, with using my new project index cards of micro tasks, among which I intend to rotate, I think I can find a more balanced way of accomplishing tasks around the property. Of course, the index cards will be for everything I want to do, not just stuff for the property. They will help me sense where my energy wants to flow.

I’m starting to see that honoring that flow is an act of trusting myself. While I know that I am not my body, I do see it as a sensory vehicle with instrumentation that can sense non-physical realities, especially mine. The thermometer is not the weather, but it can sense an aspect of it. The same is true of our bodies. The human body really has sophisticated instrumentation that it largely ignored or unnoticed. I’m thankful that I’ve been learning how to understand it.

Of course, there are the subtle bodies that intersect with the physical part. So, when I refer to the human body, I refer to all of the layers, not just what my eyes can see or what my fingers can touch.

With me, I physically feel energies, so all of that takes on new meaning as the lines between physical and non-physical become less distinct.

This has created a very different life for me.

I’m sure I’ll be talking about that more.