Tuesday, October 19, 2010

I ALWAYS go out into the garden and pull weeds bare handed. Then I spend 10 minutes scrubbing off the dirt under my nails, ground into my skin, etc. I then put on gloves but there's dirt inside them. Why is that? And I have twelve pairs of gloves, in various stages of decomposition. My favorites have holes at the end of every finger.

I bought a Japanese gardening tool. You could kill a person with it. It's the only tool I will ever use again. I feel like a samurai in the garden now. Take that, you weed!

2 comments:

Laura Gamache said...

you know that May Sarton poem about the true gardener never using a glove? I'll try to find it...

beth coyote said...

Oh, do. I need it. And we miss you!!!