Red Dirt Chronicles

Showcasing Red Dirt culture ~ authored and managed by contributors with connections to the great state of Oklahoma.

Menu
  • Home
  • Posting Schedule
  • Comment Policy
  • Complete EPOTM List
    • Cities visited A – E
      • Adair, OK
      • Beggs, OK
      • Bethel Acres
      • Boley, OK
      • Cache, OK
      • Carney, OK
      • Cashion, OK
      • Cedar Valley, OK
      • Cimarron City, OK
      • Crescent, OK
      • Criner, OK
      • Cromwell, OK
      • Dibble, OK
      • Disney, OK
    • Cities visited F – J
      • Fay, OK
      • Grove, OK
      • Guthrie, OK
      • Holdenville, OK
      • IXL, OK
    • Cities visited K – O
      • Lexington, OK
      • Lima, OK
      • Little, OK
      • Little Axe, OK
      • Meeker, OK
      • Miami, OK
      • Mounds, OK
      • Navina, OK
      • New Lima OK
      • Owasso, OK
    • Cities visited P – T
      • Payne, OK
      • Peoria, OK
      • Picher, OK (A)
      • Pink, OK
      • Pryor Creek, OK
      • Putnam, OK
      • Quapaw, OK
      • Schoolton, OK
      • Spavinaw, OK
      • Sperry, OK
      • Strang, OK
      • Stillwater, OK
      • Tecumseh, OK
      • Tulsa, OK
    • Cities visited U – Z
      • Vici, OK
      • Wewoka, OK
      • Wyandotte, OK
      • Yukon, OK
  • RDC Store
  • About
  • Contact
Menu

Meanwhile, Back at The Ranch: Happy Birthday to M.E.

Posted on August 1, 2011August 1, 2011 by Guests and Former Contributors

Today is my birthday.  My husband tells me that I start celebrating it on the first of the month even though it’s actually on the last day of July.  This year I tried to narrow the celebration down to a three-day weekend.  No matter how long the party is, it is always going to involve friends, gifts, and flowers.

Friday was my last work-free day, so I invited a few teacher friends over to swim. Right after they arrived it started to rain.  No worries.  I had indoor activities planned: making homemade salsa from the vegetables in my garden and hulling purple hull peas.  At one point in the day, a friend told me she was going to start referring to me as “Mother Earth” or M.E. I’m not sure if this was before or after I cooked the purple hull peas we just hulled (flavored with a jalapeno pepper from my garden) for a little snack.

Garden Jewel
A gift for my garden: Beauty AND function.

My birthday celebration continued with a couple of gifts.  My friends brought me a little jewel to hang in my garden.  Shiny objects tend to keep the birds from eating all the fruit, so instead of pie pans, I’ve hung shiny decorator objects in the garden to add a little upscale style. My dog, Mae, received the next gift….a new kennel. We set the new kennel up for her, I kissed her on the nose, and said, “Happy Birthday to M.E.”

Saturday was filled with yard work.  I mowed our yard and headed across the way to mow the property that used to belong to my father-in-law.  Even though the sun was blistering, I took some time to pull a few weeds out of the flowerbeds.   I noticed our rosebush in the back yard was loaded with flowers, so I cut some to put in a hanging vase inside.  I made a note to do that more often.  I also made a note to find a place for a cut flower garden.  I believe the real Mother Earth would like that.

My birthday celebrations are changing in a good way.  At the mention of Mother Earth, I imagined a woman with a crown of herbs and long flowing gown, not a tag rag, shorts, and a tank top.  It doesn’t matter what she looks like, I am honored to be compared to her and to celebrate my birthday in her honor.

[julie]

Comments

comments

Category: Homestead and Garden

2 thoughts on “Meanwhile, Back at The Ranch: Happy Birthday to M.E.”

  1. janet says:
    August 4, 2011 at 7:11 pm

    Happy Birthday my sweet and clever daughter!

  2. Red Dirt Kelly says:
    August 1, 2011 at 7:58 am

    Julie – your garden looks great! You have more tomatoes than me right now, and your cucumbers look really healthy. Beautiful!

Comments are closed.

email usemail us

Categories

See my published books

Archives

RDC Recommends...

  • Abandoned OK
  • Exploring Oklahoma History
  • NonDoc
  • Oklahoma Women Bloggers
  • Uncovering Oklahoma

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
© 2023 Red Dirt Chronicles | Powered by Minimalist Blog WordPress Theme