1st Annual 'Save The Frogs Day

As brought to my attention by Stuart today is the 1st Annual 'Save The Frogs Day .

I have been considering how I can attract frogs into my garden. We already have a pond, but it was not very frog friendly due to being
* Deep
* Steep
* Close to the house and a long way from the gardens.
* Goldfish donated by a friend
I have been working to add things to the pond to make it more friendly. There are now ways for the frogs to climb in and out of the pond, and we have extended the garden so it comes right up to the pond. Now I just have to lose the goldfish, not sure how to go about that.
I am currently creating a wildlife friendly native garden at the back of the yard and I'm looking into how to create a bog garden, which will hopefully increase the frog friendliness of our overall garden.

Why still Jess's Garden

Over the last year I've been playing with a range of blogs about my changing life, but I have decided that I can't maintain multiple blogs and I'm in the processing of bringing the posts from the other blogs over to this blog.
When I orginally started this blog I wrote this post, which basically discussed the idea that I was a beginning gardener, but I didn't outline why I had chosen the name "Jess's Garden".
As I think about it now, I chose the name because I garden to create a space that I want to share with my family. (Jess is my dog) This is still the case, this blog is about me trying to create a home and family. Creating a garden is a key part of that process, but it is not the only part, so I feel the different parts of this blog are all congruent to the same goal.

Sage flowers

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I wanted to post pictures of the garden, but the everytime I went outside with the camera, the rain started again and I couldn't get any photos I wanted. So instead here is a photo of the sage in flower from before christmas. I love the purple flowers.

Yes that's how I feel

As I drove out to pick up DH this morning I happened upon a radio interview on radio national with Peter Sculthorpe I must admit I don’t know anything about him, from the interiew I know he is an Australian composer. I caught the tail end of the interview and he managed to give such a good summary about how I feel about religion, spirituality and life in general.

QUOTE FROM TRANSCRIPT

Peter Thompson: You gave up on talking about God because people misunderstood what you meant, is that right?


Peter Sculthorpe: No, that was when people would ask me what sort of a composer are you, and I'd say, Well I'm a religious composer, and people would say, Oh, really? What, Catholic, Anglican, Methodist? But by religious composer I meant that almost all my music seeks the sacred in nature, and if that's not being a religious composer, what is, if one is seeking what is sacred.


Peter Thompson: But you're very attached to that saying that Pandit Nehru, former Prime Minister of India, used in describing Bali that Bali is the morning of the earth, the morning of the world.


Peter Sculthorpe: Right, yes.


Peter Thompson: That's what you're describing, aren't you? That God in nature?
Peter Sculthorpe: Yes, God in nature, yes, which is related of course to Shintoism, Japan, which is to do with the sacredness that is in all things, in all nature.

END QUOTE

The idea of scared in nature is how I feel about my spirituality. I find it such a hard thing to define for myself or others and there I was sitting in the car going. “YES, that’s it.”
I’m now off to see if I can find any of his music to see how it makes me feel.
( I really should listen to RN more often, the interviews and discussions are so often thought provoking.)

My poor husband

Sometimes, (just sometimes mind you)I feel sorry for my husband. Just now he goes out and brings in all the wet washing on the line. The weather has been wet, windy and plain weathery and thus the washing hasn't dried for several days. I'm feeling very behind in the washing and today's load of nappies has been sitting in the machine because there is not much else I can do with them.
Any way instead of being grateful for my husband dealing with the washing I get cranky because my LOOPY mind decides he is making implications about my inability to deal with the washing.
What is with that!!!! He was helping and I'm cranky and letting my own guilt obsurce his helpfulness and caring.
Oh well, I'm loving the wet weather must make the most of it.