Tiny vignettes, perfectionism, & "good enough."

Happy Saturday friends!

We’ve finished week two of unpacking and miles to go before we sleep ;-) As things come out of boxes, we cover every available flat surface until night time comes and then I start putting things back together. Nothing is 100% done but I’m enjoying each tiny vignette I put together. It’s amazing how just a small bright spot can bring so much joy in total chaos. 

My living room is still a mess, but this is part of the way done:

My bathroom still doesn’t have anything covering the windows (privacy window cling arriving today!) but my jungle looks pretty:

My bathroom and office get the best light and my baby plants love the humidity. I did a little research and found that you can propagate rosemary in water! Who knew! And fast too, it's only been a few weeks and I have roots:

My bedroom isn’t anywhere near being done but look at this cute vintage pole lamp, milk glass lamp, and pink flowered chair I found on Facebook Marketplace! This corner makes me happy:

(And!!! I'm finally sleeping in that room and not on the couch! We found a way to help outgas the carpet, whew.)

And my kitchen is a disaster! Even though it’s completely unpacked, it has a big island, so…other things end up on that flat surface until they find a home. But guess what? I cleared off half the island and made a meal in there this week! 

The older I get the more I recognize the truth of Mom’s words, “You’ll be happier if your room is clean."

AND

The older I get the more clear I am about my own physical limitations, how to pace myself so I stay healthy, and to appreciate any and all forward movement toward the goal.

I spent about 12 hours early this week thinking: Oh. My. God. It will never get done.

A bit of a downward spiral but 12 hours isn't all that bad compared to my past :-) Growth! Or as my friend Mary says, "Oh yay. Another fucking growth opportunity." 

THE RANCH:

I always love seeing the goat families cuddle up together but it’s even more special to see the ones NOT related snuggle up. This is Snickers (brown) and Alaska:

B-Rad thinks that this mama deer has a little nest in the pampas grass:

That's her rump, disappearing into the pampas grass at the edge of the pond. There was really nowhere else for her to go right there other than inside that grass clump. Cool. A baby soon maybe!

Lori's pretty Cash (short for Cashmere) or as I like to call them: Little Red and Big Red:

It's been raining several days every week all spring and everything is so lush!

And our mower died last week so we are completely overgrown. But you know what that means (besides ticks)? It means that there are things growing and blooming that we don't normally get to see because it's all so wild right now. These two flowers made me think of Mom and her sister Katy, heads together. While it's hard to be without them, to know they are together is so very good. They weren't meant to be apart:

Something beautifully pink is growing on the poison ivy (oh darn) it appears to be a fungus of some sort:

Even when things are weedy and wild and a bit thorny, there is so much beauty if we just take a moment to look:

Tori pointing out the wild clematis growing on her pasture fence:

 

Gardenias, the smell is just incredible:

I haven't taken the time to look all these flowers up like I normally do, this is some sort of lily I guess. When things die at a farm, we tend to throw the dead plant into the woods. I think that's what happened with this one. It's been coming up since we moved in so I suppose someone tossed it at some point. "Life finds a way" and all that:

I've never seen variegated clover before:

A whole bank of the pond is full of these yellow cannas:

And aren't the lantana gorgeous?

What you're not seeing in the photo above is that we didn't get around to cutting back the old growth from last year. But you know what? Everything came up anyway and the butterflies, bees, and moths are enjoying the flowers even among the old dead growth. 

I wish we had cut it all back but the new growth will eventually hide the old. 

Perfect is so hard.

"Good enough" has been a life long battle, one I may actually be winning a little bit finally I think...

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