Sometimes I wish I was a cloud, they can go anywhere, be anything, and only have to worry about carrying too much water. I imagine that if a cloud had emotion, the grayer it got, the worse mood it would be in. If clouds had emotions I'm sure they would be really relieved to let all their rain go, it's quite a burden. But then again, maybe they would be happy, because they get to work for the earth, help keep everything alive. Clouds have a lot of responsibility, but I still think I would want to be a cloud.
My family and my next door neighbors to the right have a joint garden. We are pretty much sharing space to plant stuff, it's become really green lately with all the new plants. We have this place in our back yard on the right as you go in, this big piece of our yard we just use for planting. Every year we grow stuff like cherry tomatoes, corn, strawberries, cabbage, and a lot of other things. We currently have new oak trees growing in our back yard, and a few really old trees that in my opinion need to be chopped down so we can plant new ones that aren't so sick. Then I can't forget out grape vine that stretches all across our back fence, it has some of the best grapes on it every year, the store bought grapes can never come close to the flavor of those grapes. The raspberries we grow on the left side, and the roses that grow next to them are just lovely and amazing as well. My family has always loved plants, we never have had a fake plastic plant, it's just not the same.
Our roses are breathtaking every year. I'm not exactly sure when they will bloom again, or if they are going to bloom again but I hope they do because I really want to show you what they look like.
Today I went outside and picked some of my neighbors strawberries and some cherry tomatoes when I was hungry, they tasted really great. I've never had strawberries straight of the plant before, at least I don't think I have. There is something relaxing about planting stuff and picking it. I'm glad my neighbors and my family are sharing a garden. I'm starting to understand why my grandpa loved his garden so much, it is really relaxing planting, taking care of, and picking stuff from a garden. I'm not quite that good at managing a garden on my own yet, but I hope to someday. I love the feel of dirt on my hands and the plants as they brush my arms. I find gardening really stress relieving. I think my grandpa felt the same way I do. I love nature a lot.
We have a birch tree in our front yard. I named it Fred when I was younger. I love that tree so much. I used to carve things into it, love notes, secrets, all sorts of things. As I got older I stopped though, because I have gained a deeper appreciation for nature as I get older. I have a special attachment to trees, especially my birch, it's like my baby. Before we trimmed it a little it used to have these branches that were 5 feet and another one that was 6 feet off the ground. I used to hang off those branches all the time. The tree was always the easiest way to get on the roof when I was younger. I quit doing that when I became older, it kind of lost it's thrill. The branches were so perfectly placed that it was great for climbing and getting onto the roof. My parents would scold my brothers whenever they got caught, me however, I never got caught.
I remember climbing on top of the roof once and climbing all the way to the top and looking over to the other side of the yard and thinking, even though I was young, what a pretty view it was. I think I only did that once, and I'm glad I did not get caught because my mom would have probably had a heart attack. I was always super careful when I got back down, taking every step extra carefully as I went across and down.
We got the tree trimmed about a month ago. These guys that were doing a demonstration for some kind of TV infomercial offered to trim the tree for us. The saw they used was really good, and they obviously knew what they were doing because when it was done the tree looked really great! The branches I used to hang off of, are no longer there, but it looks nicer. I don't think I will be climbing on the roof either, since those branches are gone it's harder to safely climb up and down the tree. It's kind of sad, but I guess it's for the best. It's probably good that other children can't do the same thing I did. I was pretty wise for my age, in my opinion anyway. I never did anything I wasn't sure I could do. I don't think my nieces could do some of the stuff I did when I was younger like climb on roofs. ha ha.
Our next door neighbors went on vacation or something, I'm not sure. We have no fence in our backyard separating our yards. It's fun not having that annoying wood fence in the back yard anymore. Since they were gone today, and I'm not sure when they are going to be back I just went in the back yard and looked around a little. I mostly stayed on my side of the yard. It was cool seeing all the new plants. At some point I sat down on a swing on my old ancient swing set and just gazed around. The swing was a little too low for me so I decided to throw the swing over the top so it would wind around the top bar and become higher.
I did that, but the thing I had forgotten about was there is a BEE HIVE in the swing set somewhere and when I threw the swing over the top where the bees reside I really pissed them off big time. I looked up after I did that and I could see a whole bunch of them flying around and I went running as fast as I could away from the swing set before they could put 2 and 2 together and attack me for disturbing the peace.
it was at this point my nieces that were outside noticed that I was also outside. I wasn't going to play with them but they wanted to play on the neighbors trampoline, so I couldn't really refuse because I love trampolines. I haven't been on a trampoline that much since my best friend Brooke moved away a few years ago. Me, Devin and Brook used to always hang out on a trampoline and play all sorts of games, would try to do flips, and other stuff as well. It was always fun. I had sort of forgotten how fun a trampoline was.
My nieces and I played some pretty funny games, like raptor tag. One of us would be a raptor, or a different animal of choice, and we would say this rhyme, and once it was done the person that was the animal would chase the other people and the last one that was tagged would be it next. We did different variations of this, like one with a zombie, and one with a snake. We also played "Crack the egg". It's basically where you hold yourself in the fetal position with your arms hugging your legs and the other people jump around and try to get you to fly apart. I remember when I did it with Brooke and Devin it got really ridiculous sometimes, we were pretty rough ha ha. My nieces and I were pretty crazy and random on that trampoline, at one point we made up our own unique characters with powers and stuff and we pretended to attack each other with magical powers. Mine was a nature fairy with rainbow fire hair, a blue python around my neck that could turn people to ice, poison rose out of my skin, and my eyes could hypnotize. It got pretty crazy because we kept on adding on the most random abilities to our characters. At one point I had the power to make rainbow clouds that brought down golden lightning. I was thinking up the most random things ever, and so were my nieces.
I haven't played with them like that in a while, we just let our imaginations go and it felt really good. By the time we were done our hair was sticking up in the air and we were shocking each other. Trampolines tend to do that to people, I still find it funny to this day. I still remember me and my friends making our hair stick up on purpose sometimes. It got pretty hilarious.
Anyway, I don't think that is the last I will see of that trampoline. I'm sure I won't see the last of my nieces zombie cat, hybrid pokemon, super fairy games that are so funny, but also fun as well. I am probably going to stay away from the bee infested swing set now while I'm at it. I'd rather not piss them off again, no sir!
So today was pretty fun, and it hasn't rained at all, the skies have been clear, and it has been blistering hot today. I can't really complain though, I love hot weather. Nothing much besides this has happened, I was starting to worry that nothing was going to happen today, and I wouldn't have anything to write about, but as you see I was wrong. I love the unpredictability of life, I really do.
I can't wait until everything that is growing outside is in bloom, and I can't wait until our new trees grow, nature is so exciting, and so unpredictable sometimes.
I don't think anything else is going to happen this evening, but if it does, or if I think of something else I want to say I will update.
