Yesterday we played in the dirt + it was so good for my soul. I had been itching to get out and dig in the dirt for a few days but it has been rainy here this week. Yesterday the rain lifted, but it was still so yummy + dewy out all day. We ditched the gloves and sunk our hands into the moist soil, well at least I did. Ava just helped as long as her hands didn’t get dirty, lol. I’m trying to teach her to get dirty, but she does not like things to get dirty. As soon as she gets something on her clothes, she insists on changing them, and whenever her hands get dirty she has to wash them. I mean I guess that’s good, but I’m trying to teach her the opposite, ha ha! Get dirty little one, it’s good for your heart!
We pulled up some fresh dandelion leaves and made our first green smoothie of the season. I typically only like to drink smoothies in the warmer seasons. I never crave them in the winter. It kinda felt like a christening of spring yesterday for me. Then for dinner I pulled up some wild onion chives to chop up and put on our baked potato fries. They ended up being some of the best fries we’ve ever had.
I wore my mama’s mud boots which always make me feel connected to gardening. That woman LOVED her garden like her life. Almost every morning when her crops where in season when I would show up to her house for work (after high school when I worked for them) she would have to bring me out to her garden and show me everything first, always with these boots on. I miss the sacred land they had built their home on so deeply, and these boots walked alot of miles on that land with her feet in them. So anytime I put them on my feet I feel like I’m slipping into a part of her. I wish I had paid more attention back then to all she was telling me about her garden. And dear God I wish she was alive now to come help me create my own, she would LOVE it. But she can’t, so I’ll just wear her boots and think of her while I fumble around in the dirt. I may not know what I’m doing, but I do know the feeling I get when I put my hands in dirt and that is enough for me.
