small pleasures....

ok, so....i went out to get the mail about 2:30...after a morning in town helping my spouse at the store and shopping at the aldi.....and i glanced over at a clump of wild onions...and gave it a pull....and when it came out of the ground in its entirety i tossed the mail in the front door, changed my shoes, put on gloves....and proceeded to pull out clumps of wild onions from the quince bush to the hydrangea......nearly the frontage of this fenced-in yard.....the wet and warmish weather brought out the onions, but also allowed for easy removal.....there are few activities so pleasurable that one can do in one's own yard in broad daylight quite as special as pulling up entire rooted clumps of wild onions......i must add that at times i caught deep inhales of cool boxwood....which is one of my favorite smells...at the exact moment i encountered this aroma it seemed that the fragrance had been trapped into that very pocket as some sort of reward for my endeavors.....i did spend mental energy calculating just how many courses of soaker hose it will take to cover my planting area.....and i did figure out how to seamlessly take the water to the other side of the trellis.......life is good.....