Gardening...

I have been doing lots of gardening this week. I have a new house and have never had a garden before so I got several books out of the library on gardening (especially books that have the words "easy" in the title). I've been trying to keep those pesky weeds down to a minimum and also maintaining the garden edges, because they get overgrown by unsightly grass tentacles! There is also a jasmine bush that needs constant pruning as it consumes every single plant it comes into contact with. The library books have been extremely helpful to have around.

Gardening is becoming a less daunting task the more I read up about it and I can use this experience in my job by recommending some of the gardeining books to our library patrons. I was amazed to learn that by merely hanging a few old CDs from fruit trees that birds will not land on them as they hate things that shine. So far it seems to have worked and perhaps there will be some nice fruit to harvest in a few months!