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Yetzirah

Hot Water
Fri Nov 05 2004


I feel like a drop of water that is dancing on a hot griddle.

Jittery and jumpy.

Sizzling and sputtering.

I just hope I don't evaporate and disappear too...

If the garden wasn't a sodden mud puddle, I would go out there and do some more meticulous cleanup of fallen leaves. More like a Martha Stewart level of weeding. Make it perfect, you know. But I don't want to get all muddy. But then if it was warm enough, I suppose one could garden with no clothes on and then come in and take a nice hot bath. I have never tried that. I'll have to add it to my, "To Do in This Lifetime" list. #97: Garden in the nude.

I've been knitting and crocheting like a madwoman lately. It's a pretty good thing to do when you feel restless. But if the restless quotient goes over a certain level, I can't sit still, so I toss the yarn and needles on the counter and start roaming around the house making lists of things to do if I could just focus, and settle and calm down.

Reading the news compulsively only worsens the problem. Speculations are not what I need right now. But that is all that seems to be offered. I'm swearing off until 5 o'clock anyway. No news is good news until 5. That's my plan.

I think I am going to have to go walk this one out. Go explore the creek or check out the open fields now that the ticks are probably dormant. I'll try to use up some of this nervous energy constructively.

Some days it sucks to be me.


13 Comments
  • From:
    CaraSusanetta (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Nov 04 2004
    I can sum up the danger of naked gardening in the rain in one word: RINGWORM
    Not that I know from experience...gardening yes, naked no. LOL.
  • From:
    Allimom (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Nov 04 2004
    Gardening in the nude... be careful using rakes and spades, very-very careful! And one more word, sunscreen. Sunburned boobs hurt like the dickens!
    Alli
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Nov 04 2004
    You could share some of that nervous energy. I certainly could use some of it.

    Gardening in the nude. Entertain the neighbors?

    Shalom
  • From:
    Yetzirah (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Nov 04 2004
    Either that, or scare the heck out of 'em!
  • From:
    Ichandra (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Nov 05 2004
    in my neighborhood cafe you always meet new people and chat it is very open to conversations across table this guy sitting next to me was doing gorgeous designs on grid with a drafting pen i said i admired his work and asked if he went to art school and he said no he has insomnia and took up this art work for something to do in the early morning when he couldnt sleep his work seems to me to be a really incredible acheivement

    although mon amie i like the idea of nude gardening better hee hee
  • From:
    Monstergue (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Nov 05 2004
    Martha Stewart had an army of illegals weeding her garden. You might want to cross Nekkid Gardening off of your list. One of two things will happen; either you will get bug bites in realllllly unmentionable places or you will get stains on your birthday suit that not even dry cleaning will take out *giggles*
  • From:
    InStitches (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Nov 05 2004
    Can I join you on that walk? I've been studying financial terms all day and I think my head is about to explode.

    I suppose you could go out there and make the yard all perfect, but the wind will just come along and messy it up all over again. I'd wait until all the leaves have fallen, but then that nude thing will be all the more apparent to the neighbors unless, of course, you happen to have a few fig leaves handy.
  • From:
    Lightmiracle (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Nov 05 2004
    Nude gardening sounds very therapeutic--but yes--people are mentioning the cold, the bugs, the neighbors. I'd be up for it if I could afford a greenhouse--with drapes. ;)
  • From:
    ImNotLisa (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Nov 05 2004
    What about midnight nude gardening? You know, kind of like midnight skinny dipping?
  • From:
    Bookworm (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Nov 05 2004
    Your gardening in the nude comment made me think of a story a friend told me. One very early morning he was waiting outside his girlfriends flats to take her to work. One of the elderly neighbours was out raking leaves. For a long time he sat and stared, but for the life of him he couldn't figure out what she was wearing. It wasn't until he came a lot closer, to pass her by on the steps on the way to his girl's door, that it all became too clear. The old lady was raking, yet wasn't wearing a stitch of clothing. He didn't know what to do, but simply responded with a polite 'hello' to her greeting. He's still sure she didn't know she was nude. Poor old dear. ;-)
  • From:
    Sezrah (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Nov 05 2004
    mud wrestler gardening, now there's a thought!

  • From:
    Sweetsummerbreeze (Legacy)
    On:
    Sat Nov 06 2004
    I never got a chance to get out and cleanup my flower bed for winter or plant my spring bulbs. It snowed before I got the chance to get out there. I'm going to try and plant my spring bulbs as soon as all of the snow melts which probably won't be until April or May. The spring bulbs around here usually don't bloom until the summer anyways so it might work.
  • From:
    Salamander (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Nov 07 2004
    hmmmm ... Takes "all natural" to new heights.