You might not always remember to.
I decorate it for most seasons and holidays, but for Summer this year, it just became sort of a dumping ground.Some decorations left over from Spring, some things I’m planning on using in there in the Fall, whatever garden stuff I wanted to be able to grab on my way out the door without going into the scary garage, and various toys..
I thought I’d clean it up the other day, just to get rid of some of the piles of junk and to get ready for some Fall ideas to brew..It didn’t need to be pretty, just tidy for now.. Well, I did tidy it up.Lo and behold: It.
It’s like I staged it to look like I’d just come in from the garden, and the kids had been outside playing croquet all afternoon, and Kennedy’s rain boots are by the door cause she’s just been out in a stable taking care of the horses..Except, it’s not staged.
That’s just actually what happened..
And I didn’t even realize it was happening.So that means gardening isn’t just for Spring and Summer, it’s for taking care of a lot of the clean up in the Fall and Winter too, so that when the warm weather hits, you don’t just throw in the towel because you think you’re so far behind..
I wanted to share with you some of the kinds of things I’m finding to take care of right now that make me feel a whole lot more capable when it comes to dealing with all this space we have out here.. First of all, leaves are almost always a big part of Fall clean up.If we really had to rake all of our leaves, we’d be doomed.
I was worried about this last year, but we soon discovered that they all blow out into the fields, so we just enjoy them while they’re here..So what I’ve really been doing are just little things, but often things that I would just not get to until Spring because they didn’t seem big enough to warrant a whole trip outside on their own.
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