Seed Faith

Spring is getting closer every day!  I sat in the sun for a long time today, my face soaking up the golden rays, even though I was bundled against the wind.  Several fat robins were darting in and out of bushes, with one making a zooming, low-flying swoop along the walk way on the way to joining a mate on a low tree branch.

We had just finished lunch at a Chinese restaurant, something I hadn't done in forever, thinking I didn't like Chinese food.  But I found it hearty and satisfying and, I have to admit, tasty!  When we were almost finished eating, the waiter presented our check on a little metal tray holding two fortune cookies.  Just for fun, I cracked one open, and it was empty!  Was that a bad sign? jk!

"There was no fortune in the cookie," I said to the waiter when he came round.  "No fortune?" he exclaimed, and quickly brought me another.  This time I pulled out a tiny strip of paper with the words, "Things are not always what they seem.  It's not that bad."  How did they know I had been feeling ill and was worried about it?  I had to laugh.  My husband's said something equally innocuous.

I was feeling better, so we decided to drive out to the country to see the progress our son had made on a building project.  In short order, a couple of our gardening friends showed up to work on the garden.  We joined them, Howard pushing a garden tiller to make furrows with me sowing seeds for spinach and turnips.

"Do you need help planting the onions?" I asked, and soon I was placing the little green onion roots in the ground.  Now it looks like a real garden, with the onion shoots sticking up in orderly rows like little green soldiers.

Several curious cows a neighbor is pasturing there gathered at the fence line, their winter coats ruffling in the wind and outlined in silhouette by the sun. A yellow school bus, followed by a cloud of dust from the newly-graveled road, came over the hill and stopped out front.  Our two young granddaughters appeared momentarily around the corner of the house, making their way inside with the eagerness of kids out of school.

We stopped for more seed packets on the way home, so I don't need a fortune cookie to tell me where we'll be tomorrow!  Nor do I attribute my feeling better to a cookie, because my husband prayed for me this morning!