#61 Gardening

I was never born with a green thumb. Killing things has been more my area of expertise…. And wow that’s the start of a terrible young adult novel. My bad.

Anyway! I took upon me the challenge of learning how to garden. Courtesy of my dear friend Ashley whom bought me herbs to start off my gardening (and became my go to gardening guru). Cause I believe if it’s an herb that I will be using for cooking and such that I will be less likely to kill it. Hopefully.

Here is Ashley being my gardening guru and teaching me how to pot my herbs and such. Giving me the full basic breakdown cause lord knows I need any and all the help I can get.

Oh and my brother’s dog Diesel is sniffing the soil hoping that it’s a snack. (Spoiler: It is not.)

Anyway  it’s been 2 months now and I just wanna say they all were alive! They really were and I was so proud of myself.

Look at em all alive!

See y’all look how content and proud I am of my herbs!

Let me tell you the story of my herbs. I have Spearmint, Rosemary, Thyme, Cilantro, Basil, and some Marigold to keep the bugs away. Perfect simple set up for me! All things I would care about and I did!

But tragedy struck.

THE CILANTRO AND BASIL WERE MURDERED!

And I loved them the most.

You see a bear resides near my house and he (or she I don’t really know, but from here on out I’m referencing the bear as Mr. Bear) climbed onto my deck at around 9pm and stole my basil that was in the center of the cilantro. Mr. Bear did not care for the cilantro, but he went after the basil and the cilantro became a causality because of it.

Am I getting a bit to over dramatic about this?

No! NEVER!

Y’all I am saddened by my loss, but I still have successfully taken care of plants and even thought it’s only been 2 months I am counting that as a win because I fear for the next plant Mr. Bear goes after. Also I did acquire some gardening skills, which was the main point of this (not emotional attachments to herbs).

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