Tuesday

I need to be better about blogging the important things that have been happening.

Like when I lost the company credit card. haha oops

klutz.

Although, I literally dont understand how that happened. It straight up just fell out of my pocket while I was doing a whole lotta nothing..

Anyway, things I need to get off my chest:

1. Im going through a Reeses Pieces phase. I presume it will not be fulfilled until Ive eaten Reeses Pieces during a movie in the theater because, perfect.
2. I want high waisted jeans and I want to wear those jeans all day every day
3. Im looking for a good copy of Rip Van Winkle to read next
4. Tonight I had bread pudding for dinner and
5. We went to the most fantastic bluegrass, creole, French fiddle concert

so good. so so good.

AND he played a mean accordion and he actually kind of looked like Rip Van Winkle so it all comes full circle.

Off to bed! Goodnight! 

Biscuits and Gravy

Today we went to the Jeffersonton community breakfast, which is held at the Jeffersonton Community Center- which doubles as a post office. It's a small town, okay? But it's literally so precious. And I have two words for you:

BISCUITS AND GRAVY.

McDonald's biscuits and gravy aint got nothing on Virginia. Its so gross that I even know that.

Guys I have pictures!!!

Two side notes: last night we went shooting. I didnt shoot the gun because I'm a whimp. But I promise I will before I leave. And we had ice cream for dinner last night. My kinda life here.

Okay picture time!!

This is a farm kitchen

This is a farm rug

These are farm chickens. They actually don't respect my personal bubble at all. I'm like, can you back up like half a step?

This is the farm dog. She's the best. I'm kind of in love.

 Tulips ready for market!

 This is Lily of the Valley. Super pretty. Super small.

 Okay I love Ranunculus.

 One of the bouquets Jen made! So beautiful!

 Here it is again!

 We made little bundles of Poppies today! Super cute. Im talking about my hand, not the flowers.

Ranunculus up close and personal

(Pretty sure a bug just landed on my head gaaaaahhhhhhkfhdkalfhdlka)

These are more pretty Poppies that we picked perfectly periodically throughout the past couple days. Oh gawd I'm annoying.

THIS is Viburnum. It's okay, I thought they were Hydrangeas too. Similar but not quite the same! Both fluffy white puff balls, so both high up there on my list :)

(I have to pee but I'm too scared to get out of bed so I'll take the bladder infection thanks)

We'll end with the last of this season's Lilac because I LOVE Lilac and tomorrow is mothers day and Lilac always makes me think of my mom. She had a Lilac bush by our old house and that smell always brings me back to the good old days. 

Tomorrow we get up early (5:30am) for market in Washington D.C. I've never been before so I'm pretty excited!!!

Happy Mother's Day!

Life On A Flower Farm

A couple things:

I'm very tired right now so I can't turn my funny on.

I'm breathing embarrassingly loud and through my mouth because my allergies have been killing me and my nose is all stuffed up!

I get to drive a golf cart around everywhere here so I basically feel like a hot shot all day.

Today we went to the store and all I bought were Reeses. Typical.

Flower stuffs... today we picked so many things! Anemone, Poppies, Ranunculus, Tulips, Viburnum, Variegated Solomon Seal, Lily of the Valley, Euphorbia, Campanula, and many more! It's okay if you don't know what any of those are because I didn't either just a few days ago!

We also got to arrange bouquets of flowers which is like.. yes.

I promise I will take more pictures. I've been bad about that so far.

Here is A picture... just to wet the palate. Gross.. that expression will not be used by me again.

2nd Corinthians 3:17
"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."

Now if you will excuse me, I am going to go eat chocolate cake ;)

Come Alive

Disclaimer: I've never blogged before. But I joke around with myself in my head all the time so its like the same thing, right?

So I'm driving to Virginia to go work on a flower farm (:^D (thats Jorge) and I'm like, "Virginia, is my speed REALLY being patrolled by aircraft? Because I'm not trying to get pulled over by one of your incredibly vigilant cops." Needless to say, I was going under the speed limit anyway because my car is a PIECE.

I got an Arizona green tea for the drive (insert thumbs up emoji) because my dad used to always drink those and collect the bottles and I thought it was the coolest thing in the world for some reason. And I was listening to the new Anderson Cale album Flight, which by the way, is INCREDIBLE. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me pray, it made me nostalgic, but most of all it's just incredibly beautiful and timely. And like, track 3 tho....

Today was my first day working on the flower farm and already we picked ranunculus (one of my favorites), poppies, tulips, and we loaded hundreds of viburnum into a van for a delivery which was just like white puff ball heaven. My favorite.

AND GUESS WHAT!? There is a dog here. I can't even. I love dogs. And there is a HUGE orange cat, which is like essential to life. He will have to replace my big, orange cat from home for the time being (Danny if you're reading this, nobody could ever replace you). 

I have so much more I could say but I really should get to bed because I'm 85 years old and can't hardly stay up past 10pm (i'm not really 85) (and honestly I can't hardly stay up past 9:30pm).

I'll leave off with this: You know that moment when your heart comes alive? It doesn't happen often (in this sort of peaceful, purposeful way) but I think it has something to do with your heart aligning with God's plan. Know who you are, know who God is, and look for the things that make your heart come alive.

This ones for you Jared.

Goodnight and sweet, sweet dreams!