My favorite outdoor tools are a shovel and a can of spray paint. I got to use both today in some gorgeous spring weather. I was only going to edit my garden which the dianthus (Sweet William) had cluttered. Too much of a good thing, as it were.
But then...
If you give a gardener a shovel, she'll dig up flowers, and realize she likes them better in the big metal round tub she spray painted a galvanized steel color. She will remember how much fun she had painting her various flowerpots that way.
If you give her a can of spray paint, she will use it like a gun in the hands of a drive-by shooter,
except with a heart that wants to transform ugly to pretty, not the other way around.
She sees that the wicker furniture is quite shabby and decides to repaint the center design on the midback of each chair in the pair. When she is finished with that, she remembers that it's a lot of fun to change dark to light in other ways, so she paints a green magazine/coffee table white.
The change looks like something she should photograph and toot her horn about--er , inspire others about. She is saving that post for another day.
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And if she blogs about it she will surely inspire another gardener to at least clean the dirt off of her plastic chairs.
As she cleans she will notice the rust forming on the metal table and look for a can of spray paint... Then again, inspiration is one thing and getting it done is another!
No "horn to toot" here, but I'm rejoicing that you made some music and did inspire! Really!! :)
Funny, Laurie. Glad you're inspired. You're right: getting it done is completely a different thing from inspiration. I think Einstein mentioned perspiration in the formula for genius. I'm not a fan of sweat>()/
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