Really fun to garden with Lei.
Gardening has drawn us even closer together. Whenever I go to mom's, I'd tour her garden with her. We take delight in looking at the different plants, which we can never name, and their vigorous summer colors. It is a double joy-- joy of the beauty of nature, and joy of being with my sister. I can't but praise the Lord for sisterhood. I love Lei.
I can't believe how excited I have been, looking forward to our weekend project of making some hanging basket together. Like a kid looking forward to a weekend outing to an amusement park, I dream about tomorrow. The fun of talking about what we want to do; the fun of going shopping in a local nursery, or two; the fun of actually doing it side by side in the shade of her patio; the fun of... of course, good food in the end to reward ourselves.
I don't remember how we started this hobby. First, she had her garden redone, and then I had mine. I guess from there, we talked more about our gardens and the interest grew. When I go visit, we would usually sit out to wait for the hummingbird family that lives there, after we are done with our garden tour. She name the "head of the household" hummingbird Joe and we can tell who Joe is and who his wife and child (we assumed it was a son, hence, little Joe) We usually don't need to wait for long before Joe would come back from his patrol of the neighborhood and parch himself on the nearby clothline and stand guard to fend off intruders. He would sometimes watch his wife and son feed on the feeder with pride, and joy. Lei and I would talk.
Temperature has been extremely high, in the triple digit these past few days. No matter what, we are gonna garden tomorrow! Yay!!