Yesterday morning…someone asked me…what I was going to do this summer…
and I replied…
Whatever I want to…
Now…I wasn’t being flip…that’s what I plan to do…
I went on to recount the few things I actually have planned…and…some of the things that I think I want to do…write…bike…gym…read…beach…rest…
At the time…I thought the list sounded a little selfish…even as I went home and took a nap…
Later…Mama called…my nephew was coming to lay out the garden rows…and she was going to plant…tomatoes…
Now…I have to confess…I detest gardening…not sure exactly why…I enjoy puttering in my pots at home…I can even enjoy raised bed gardening…but…there’s nothing about actual gardening…in a big plowed field…that I like…other than eating the finished product…maybe it’s because I did a lot of it growing up…not sure…just leave it to say…if it was up to me…no…regular…garden would be planted…
So…my reply might seem odd…
I’ll be happy to help…what time to I need to be there…
At the time…I thought I was crazy…I had just said…mere hours ago…that…I was going to do…whatever I wanted to…all summer long…and…then…I almost immediately volunteered to do something that I don’t enjoy at all…
Bertha…on the other hand…said…that there was no discrepancy…at all…that…I didn’t say I was going to do things that I enjoyed all summer…I said I was going to do what I wanted to…and those are necessarily the same thing…
She reminded me…there are things…that I want to do…that I don’t enjoy…all that much…but…I want to help others…I want a clean house…clean clothes…and…her list could have gone on and on…
Hmmm…she’s right…although I don’t enjoy gardening…I did want to help Mama…
Maybe…I’m not crazy…after all…
Jane
PS…my sister also came for the planting…and…we actually had fun…but…please don’t tell…Bertha…she’ll have me planting squash or something…oh…wait…we did that too…
