it was a beautiful day

yes indeed a nice cloudy cool day with a touch of rain on and off... a perfect day for some mature spinach plants to lay down some serious vegetative growth. The kind of day that can put a man at ease knowing that his spinach won't be forced into going to seed (which happens in the hot weather). As a thinking man i assumed everybody would be thinking the same but then some crazy kook lady at the park started complaining about the weather... you know the kind of thing a lot of lesser humans do... complain about things they can't control all the while looking at the negative side of things. I reached for my smashing brick, but then remembered that a smashing brick should only be used on charging bears or fitness club stereo Nazi's who kill good classic rock to put on auto-tune pop bullshit.

I though OK, the woman has a pack of kids so it could be that she is just not thinking straight... that can happen... you get those yappers yipping and it goes to that part of your brain that just shouldn't be violated. So i gently pointed out the benefits of this kind of weather but she was steadfast in her denial and dug into the idea that this weather gave her the green light to subject a professional neighbourhood man to some insufferable winery. So then i pointed out that the lack of direct sunlight could be good in that it could save her getting a sunburn on that beak of hers, but then i remembered that the harmful rays can still get through cloud cover so i offered her some sunscreen, but for some bizarre reason she was through with me. I tried to remind her of all of the good man ideas i had brought to our discussion (proper spinach growth, seeing positive in negative, skin care reminder) i though them to be new age, "green", and sensitive topics but there was no dice.

so i just went and did a little weeding... if you keep on it, overwhelming is not a feeling you need to battle... although it is good to battle and defeat "overwhelming"... it is all about compartmentalizing the battle... like in a hockey playoff series you just go out and focus on your one shift and then the next one... don't worry about winning the game or the series... good things will come if you do the little things you need to do... I'm sure there is some sissy version of the metaphor out there, but this is a MAN garden blog.

Nothing is better than Man weeding... you focus on your area and you pluck the weeds out making sure to get all of the roots and then shake the roots to keep that good man garden soil in your man garden... you work for a while and it feels like you have accomplished nothing but later when you stand back and you see the region that you just weeded it looks clean and tidy with only you pro man vegetables in the soil and the sunlight... and that's a real good feeling and an excellent metaphor for life.