Putzing, Planting, and Painting

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.

Tooting My Own Horn

I decided that I was being harder on myself than I should be when it comes to sharing my life. Yes, there are times I'm self-absorbed with the blog, but it is a weblog--a journal--that I more often type than would take the time to write out shorthand. The really ugly stuff I keep to myself. (So if you think you've read ugly, you ain't read nothing yet. And, I hope, you won't.)

Truth is, I am usually inspired by seeing what other people are making, doing, taking pictures of, laughing about, sorrowing over, etc. If I like it, I comment usually. If I don't, I'm either being lazy, in a real rush, or being selfish by withholding kudoes. Sometimes I'm just not all that affected, or I think it's tacky, or there are 73 other comments akin to what I'd say.

All that to say this: I have decided that I will probably add a category for myself when I post something that feels like self-absorption to me. I will call it--on purpose--Tooting My Own Horn,
or TMOH. (I don't think "tooting" would be the ideal abbreviation, do you?) I say "for myself" so that, if I see an egregious amount of posts under that heading, I know it's time for a change.