This past weekend I had a few days all to myself. And since I live in such a remote area I really do mean it when I say that I was alone for days. Well, that was the plan anyway!
Only a few hours into my solitude I got a call from a friend with an unexpected proposal. She wondered if I was interested in taking two female cannabis plants off her hands.
I zipped over to her house as fast as my bike would take me. Beyond checking to see if they really were female I asked no further questions and we arranged for her to bring the plants by sometime later this weekend. I was elated! Despite my dreams of growing a substantial amount of buds this year I was once again in the same situation as last year. Accidents, males, and unfortunate weather had left me with just one adult female. Now I have three with a few younger ones still in pots. Yay!
As I waited for the arrival of my girls I did some tidying up in the garden and fixed the fallen shade cloth on the fence. I have learned over the years that it is best to keep these sort of plants hidden from the public despite their new legality in the country. I planted them between huge stands of catnip to shelter their leaves from too much sun and their branches from the wild wind we sometimes get ... but, more on that in a Canna posts soon!
Of course I am not only obsessed with the ganja flower but love flowers of all kind. And one of my major goals of this weekend of solitude was the transplant dozens of flowers to the decorative garden around the front yard.
The weather was mostly rainy with moments of sunshine between the light showers, the perfect time to transplant zinnias, cosmos, and a few bella de noche plants from the locations they had sprouted up in to a couple of flower beds around the patio. I can't wait to see their colorful flowers in a month and until late fall!
Another goal of mine was to make simple, healthy meals for myself all weekend. At that I failed completely. When my boyfriend is home I prepare breakfast, lunch, dinner, and all the snacks in between. I just couldn't drag myself into the kitchen beyond whipping together the most basic omlette. I did, however, make many, many cups of tea and have gotten back into drinking ginkgo tea.
While scrolling along in the herbal videos to be found on TikTok I found several herbalist recommending ginkgo, not only for the brain enhancing properties but also as an ingredient in detoxing the body. I could use a bit of both and instead of drinking something caffeinated after my afternoon siesta, am trying out the habit of a ginkgo tea to "pick me up".
On my last day of alone time I had a little favor to do for a neighbor who lives up the mountain. They have an Airbnb listing and needed someone to close up the windows after the guests had left. The house itself is nice but, the real beauty is the views! After closing up the windows and locking the door I took a few moments to admire the mountains and valley below before heading back home.
Once I opened the gate to the farm where I live I was greeted by not only the familiar sight of the mare, Tila, but also a friend.
Tila has been with us for three years. She also loves her alone time but, as you'd expect, gets lonely without a friend to graze with. I knew exactly where this horse lives and that I would have to lead him home eventually but ...
... when I saw how protective, and downright smitten Tila was with this handsome young horse I decided to post pone the inevitable and let him stay till the next day. This horse seemed to like Tila's company, and love the abundance of grass we have, but, he was not returning Tila's border-line obsessive attempts at affection.
It took a few tries but, eventually I was able to guide the horse out while Tila was contained in the chicken run. When he was gone I finally let her out, she began galloping all over the acreage, calling out to him. Finally, after a couple of hours of her frantic search, she gave up hope and stood, staring out at the creek, heart broken. Poor girl!
Loved this little old day of yours. I found saint johns wort today, stoked! And had to calm the neighbours horse as some kids rode past on bikes and threw something at it. It was circling and whinnying and it was a bit of a worry. Luckily I hadn't forgotten my horse whispering skills... ! Jamie was amazed actually and so was I... Just a hush hush, it's all okay, and a calming presence seemed to do the trick. I miss my horse days.
I do want to grow a gingko tree.
!HOPE
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Oh it is so nice to hear about your horse whispering powers!! It is sad that some kids find scaring horses entertaining, we get a lot of that around here too, sadly. was there a time when you had more contact with horses?
Yeah I used to have a horse when I was a kid. Here's me late 80s on my horse Bayleaf.
This is such a beautiful photo! so majestic you both look amazing. Thanks so much for sharing this memory with me! and Bayleaf is such a cute name.
It was ever such a long time ago now! Such good memories. dad was scared of horses but he taught himself to ride because of me - we used to ride together. The stories we have! Some were brought up at his funeral service as I wrote them into the eulogy. Gosh. Time passes.
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buds, ginkgo, horses & bike...
what a wonderful life :D
ps. males are not so bad... i smoke them
I just worry that keeping males around will mean that the females will be less potent.
Hang them elsewhere to dry...
I doubt you wanna breed that strain...
They stink & taste awful, but sometimes are much more potent ;)
That was very nice of your friend to give you the female plants. I feel bad that the horse misses the other one. They would rather be together. 😁❤️
I feel bad for her too. Unfortunately the owner of the male horse is a bit of a sketchy character, I worried that he would come looking for his horse if I didn't return him within a day. On the plus side our mare does have a couple of horse friends she can socialize with next door.