My Meltdown

Today I had a 'meltdown' as CJ called it. It's really kind of funny now that I look back on it. For the past few weeks, I've been taking super good care of my garden, getting really excited because I had tons of tomatoes and vege's that were starting to sprout up. I've spent hours in this garden pulling weeds, fertilizing the ground, and caring for these fun plants. This is my first garden ever and I determined that it would be a great success.

My sweet neighbor 'Elmer' asked me when I moved in if I would be planting a vegetable garden and explained how much he loved the old neighbor lady and how she shared her fresh vegetables with him. That is what inspired me to create this garden, and until this morning...this garden has brought me a lot of joy.

Ok, so now comes the meltdown part...I came out this morning and I found that some creature had devoured almost ALL of my tomatoes! And the tops of all of my plants were eaten. And my squash...consumed. I looked around and saw that this creature had knocked down and trampled on my beloved little garden and then spit out my prized biggest tomato after it was full. I was SO sad. I can't really explain why this made me so sad...but I was having a moment. And then my sweet husband came out. I started to tell him what happened and like a little girl, I was sobbing about how some jerky animal had made a mockery out of my garden. He was so kind and sweet to me and hugged me as I had my emotional moment. Later he came back and noticed that I was in the hot sun pulling weeds and still sad about what had happened, so he called his Mom and had his family come over and help me weed :) They really did give me the pick me up that I needed and we got SO much accomplished. I can't say it enough, I have the greatest guy ever and he is so sensitive to my needs. It was perfect that he called his family over to cheer me up and they were so great to come over with tons of gardening tools and lots of energy. My meltdown turned into a great afternoon and a yummy trip to 'Fanci Freez' for some yummy dipped cones afterwards.

P.S. The 'creature' was a deer! We found lots of little hoove prints in the garden.