Weeds

It is weeding the garden time again.  I love spring, but it seems everything has a growth spurt, including the weeds.
I must admit I never say “you beauty, it is weeding the garden time again!”  It is more like in a flat, monotone “it is weeding the garden time again.  I suppose I’d better do it.  It won’t go away.”  If it did go away, I would leave it for sure.  But it doesn’t.
I suppose it is a bit like how people seem to wake up in the morning.  Some go “good Lord, morning.”  While others are all chirpy and go “Good morning Lord!”  When it comes to weeding, I am more like the former.
However I do find that once I have started, there are few things more therapeutic than weeding.  It really does not require a lot of brain power.  When I am trying to deal with the garden, it means pulling out things roots and all.  When I am in a hurry, and just want the place to look good, it is pull and hope.
Most weeds are very compliant.  They come out roots and all, no problem.  Others put up more of a fight.  That’s when it becomes personal.  It is a test of my manhood.  Me vs the weed. The score is me a gazillion, weeds zero.  Well maybe I am not that many, but I can dream.  At a glance the tough guys are like all the other weeds.  I get a grip and pull, but only the leaves come out.  Then I try and get a better grip, sometimes with success and sometimes not.  Then I do what I gotta do to get it.  Mostly their roots go really deep.
I do find when I am weeding I think of a lot of things, that relate to my life.  To me a lot of stuff is like the weeds that are easy to get out. To me, they gotta go and they are easy to deal with.  There is other stuff that is harder. The roots go deep.  
I suppose I can take that further.  I find when weeding, I need to be really careful that in pulling out the weed, I don’t pull out a plant I want.  I guess the lesson in that for me, is to deal with things, but take care in doing so.  You see I am delicate, and if you believe that, then I have something to sell you at an exorbitant price.
So for sure I will never go “hurrah it is weeding time,” but I feel I always get something out of it when I do it, besides the place looking better.