A Welcome Rainy Day

Gardening season is a busy time of the year. So much to do in such a short time, with some pretty hard deadlines, last frost day when everything has to be planted, harvest date, picking and processing at just the right time. It often means that a lot of things are shoved to the back burner until things slow down. That's why I love a rainy day.

I spent two weeks solid on garden beds; building, preparing, planting, digging. It was heavy work that left me exhausted in the evening. The kind of exhausted that feels really good because you know you accomplished something important. Every spare moment was spent outside or recovering from heavy work.

An then it rained. Really rained, pouring down, soaking the ground, leaving puddles on my stone driveway. There was no way I was going to get anything down outside. To top it off it was 5 degrees C out there - way to cold to work in the rain. I was stuck in the house. In many ways it was a relief. It was a mess. Laundry was behind, there was a lot of tidying and organizing that needed to be done, and a few odd jobs that I had put off for - ha ha - a rainy day.

As satisfying as it is to work outside, and I would absolutely prefer that to doing housework, as my house will attest to, this rainy day was so welcome. It allowed me some time to bring the inside back to order. Too often I had just put things down and left them there. I don't mind doing that, I usually know where to find it later, but the disarray was getting to me. I don't mind clutter, or mess, but I do have my limits, and that rainy day showed me I had reached mine.

I took the time to finish hanging paddles in my multi-functional room. I had tried twice already. Once, the method I used to hang the paddles just didn't support the paddles. The second attempt included painting a 1 x 2 inch pieces of wood to create a floating shelf to hold the paddles but that ended with spilling most of a can of paint.

This time round, I got them on the walls. They are no longer falling over and getting in my way and I can now display something from one of my favourite activities.

I also tidied up the tools and materials I had been using throughout the winter the redo the room, organize the storage bins that I am converting to table top space, and set up my sewing machine.

All in all, it was a great way to turn a miserable cold and rainy day into, well maybe not a cheerful happy day, but definitely a very satisfying one. I'm already saving up some jobs for the next rainy day.