Birthday

Today I turn 41.  Last year I call the City arborist ( the tree guy) about getting a tree planted in  our green belt in front of our house.  We have this program in the city where the city will plant a tree for you and you get to take care of it.  anyway, when I talked with him he said that the green belt was not wide enough to support a tree's roots system.  So I pretty much gave up on the city giving us a tree.  I have two flower gardens in the green belt and a raised bed veggie garden in our yard, Well I guess the all powerful city guy decided that the green belt was wide enough because when we got home last might we had a beautiful elm sapling planting in front of our house.  What a great way to start my Birthday weekend.

 I LOVE this time of year.  I work at a company that is all about gardening.  I love going to work and talking about it with my co worker, and the customers sometimes I Loose sight of what a great Company i do work for.  We get 4 weeks of vacation and sick time.  All of our health insurance is paid for, and most of the time its pretty fun.  I have gotten a new appreciation of the place, Listening to how other working people have it now and how things are only getting worse.  I really am one of the lucky ones.  Did I mention that we are employee owned Co to boot.  

As I move into my 42nd year ART (This could mean a myriad of things, photography, knitting, gardening, ....), family, friends, the ocean These are all things that I want to focus on.  

I feel so thankful for my life and the people in it.