Tag: gardening

#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.

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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.

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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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Skill

Never a bad thing to up my skill game, though a lot of the skills I have already achieved are hobby based. I designed this list more to get me out in the world and have a more well-rounded set of skills.

Skill Goals: 

  1.  Gardening
    • This is something that is ridiculously hard for me and for the life of me I don’t know why. When it comes to plants of any sort I always kill them and I really don’t want that to happen. I’d like to get to a point to grow my own spices or my own food, but I’d settle for just keeping a flower alive.
  2. Fly Tying
    • My dad is a big fly fisherman and recently it occurred to me that I have no idea how to tie flies, though I have been watching him my whole life. I feel it is something that I should learn from my father and I think it would be good bonding time as well!
  3. Cardistry
    • I wanna get fancy with a deck of cards. Also looks like the best fidget thing to do.
  4. Survival
    • I have some basic survival skills, but I am not confident in them. So I will design a challenge for me to kind of test my abilities and see how and where I should focus my skills on.
  5. Knife Throwing
    • Truth: I actually already know how to throw knives and such, but I wanna get my accuracy on point.
  6. Leather Craft
    • Definitely don’t wanna get too serious of this one, but I definitely want to make something cool out of leather.
  7. Bartending
    • Listen I don’t actually drink. Like at all. All alcohol tastes the same to me, but I think being able to be a bartender is going to be a skill that is going to be forced upon me one day and I’m going to need to be prepared for that.
  8. Fighting
    • I took Karate when I was younger, but got bored and couldn’t get past yellow belt….Then like 12 years later I signed up for a Krav Maga class and did that for 6 months and got really into it, but didn’t like the fact that I was covered in bruises (though most people prided themselves on them, with my business life style it wasn’t really good for me having bruises on my neck and arms….). Also, you’d think after 6 months I’d kind of believe in myself that I sort of have this skill, but I am definitely really slow on the uptake of fighting stances and punching. I think if anything it’s a confidence thing because I had the motions down, but not the follow through. So, in short I just gotta get confident in some style of fighting.
  9. Videography
    • In today’s day and age video skills are essential and I’m shocked I don’t already have them. But I would like to have focus on this and make a (super dorky) short film to experiment and learn techniques and show off what I have learned.
  10. Beauty
    • Beauty with a focus on make up, self-care, and general style. This is something I am severely lacking in as a girl. Make up has never been a skill of mine and in fact applying anything on my face is an hour struggle then me furiously scrubbing it off my face. As far as beauty self-care I don’t think is anything wrong with me spending some time learning some skills that take care of my skin and make me feel better about my self (plus this leads in with helping me towards being acne free!). Style is whole other problem because I genuinely can’t find something that makes sense to me and just end up throwing on whatever is nearest and I look like a slight disaster. Beauty is gonna be a long process.