Plans and priorities

Well, my weekend didn't quite go as planned. I'd scheduled a day off on Friday to take advantage of the picture-perfect weather in order to catch up on some long-overdue garden chores. Thursday night I got a call from 'Lifeline' saying that my mom had fallen. Four hours and an emergency room visit later, we were back at her house--one ankle brace richer. I spent the whole weekend with her and would have stayed today, but she threw me out. (I love you, Mom!)

All this set me to thinking about plans and priorities. As gardeners, we are often fond of making long-range strategies about when we'll do this and when we'll do that. I wonder, if I kept a chart, just how many of those plans I'd find were actually carried out. And of those that were actually carried out, just how many actually worked out the way I thought they would. I'm guessing it would be a small fraction, indeed.

Maybe that's one of the things that keep gardening (and life) so challenging... and so rewarding.