Many people comment that i need to be working out some kind of Drip System. these opinions come with a variety of reasons, one is that it is more efficient use of water. Some years ago i went to a Water Use Symposium and listed to many people speak and at the end went to the one i liked the best and asked him. He asked how i use the hose. i told him. he said the only thing then i'd save is time. Saving Time. With a drip system, it's kind of as if things happen by themselves. you don't need to be there. or really even know much of what's going on. you just harvest.
Giving water DOES take time. i went out this early evening to plant another of the Native Plum. but fell into that Altered State of Giving Water. almost two hours later, i'm here, telling you about it. That IS a long time....2 hours. and i only watered about half the tree/bushes. but all the composts, all the vegetable beds that are continuing to ready themselves to receive seed.
And i also listened. to whatever came into my ear. sometimes it was bird sound....the meadowlark are very much back and talking Spring, the doves of course, repeating their same syllables with diligence, Crow flew over low and called out to me. Song sparrows. The neighbors down the road had company and were talking loud and rough, but there was that musical spanish inflection and they were all talking so fast in spanish that it makes it better because i have no idea what they're saying except for the frequent Mother Fucker. the Goats. i listened to the Goats...their evening exchanges, some soft, some not. i listened to my world. i was IN my world, totally. completely. Giving water, i am an integral part of Everything. and Giving Water, i Receive.
string from the walnut pot on the wood stove. and i told Self to slow down. wait. What really IS this?
