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Your Idea

Jennifred Jones

Ideas! Ideas! Ideas! We all have ideas. They’re like little brainstorms happening inside our heads!

Some are mere passing rain clouds while others just might have something to them. Examine the passing clouds and see if their waters hold any weight! Yours might be the next helpful idea to get you through. Or maybe it’s for your company or family situation that will move you forward.

I have many, many ideas about so many things and sometimes voicing them as ‘some crazy idea of mine’…yet is it always crazy? Maybe it was just what I needed!!!

‘Nah, they won’t be interested. That wouldn’t work. It’s too far out! How could I do that? Could it really happen?’…and we discredit the idea rather than think about it more… Another good idea thrown to the wind!

Everything done and made began as somebody’s ‘big idea’.

Like what???

  • Every painting you see
  • Every house built
  • Every sink or stove or washing machine or blender or coffee pot!
  • Every wallpaper, piece of fabric, paint color
  • Every loaf of bread, spaghetti, or sauce
  • Even the different types of plants and flowers that were crossbred to make a different color

You name it, somebody made it! But it began with their idea first!

Think again. You’ve got a life full of creations if you begin with your good ideas and carry through.

Don’t hold yourself back. Just get started and keep moving!

Now, about that idea I was thinking…

What Are Weeds?

Jennifred Jones

A non-useful plant. Some weeds have attractive flowers, but they’ll take over your landscape if you allow them.

Consider the wild morning glory vine. Pretty, small white or pink flowers shaped like a phonograph bell speaker. If they get a foothold, it can take several seasons to pull them out while they climb and strangle whatever they entwine themselves around. Other weeds have underground root systems – sneakily popping up far away from the original spot. They can be hard to eliminate – think poison ivy vines. Invasive crabgrass will crowd out a bright green lawn as its non-stop-growing stems root anywhere they touch the ground. The bright colored yellow dandelion soon becomes a lollipop of seeds blowing everywhere.

We each need to take stock of what is a profitable flower growing in the landscape of our thoughts, and which are invasive weeds sown in our minds and hearts to bring us down.

Seeds of all kinds fly through the air, by wind, on birds and animals, what we watch and listen to, who we hang around. We have to decide if it is a weed seed growing in our mind or a flower seed of something useful.

When any seed takes root, it’s small and easy to pull before it causes damage. So let’s tend our mental garden often and keep unwanted weeds from getting started.

Every Window Needs a Garden!

Jennifred Jones

Today is May 1st, May Day, when children used to hang flower baskets on someone’s door, ring the bell and run away so they could be surprised.

Years ago, in ‘Fine Gardening’ magazine, a woman told how she wanted every window of her house to look out and see a garden. She submitted pictures of her home and lovely flower gardens as examples.

I decided to do that at my house. Why shouldn’t I have something pretty, and inspiring and beautiful to greet my family’s eyes when they looked out the window? I made it happen and loved it. I wanted others who came to visit able to see beauty also.

Houses and windows change as we move from here to there. Maybe you live in an apartment and have no control of a pretty outdoor view. Can you place a plant in your windowsill, or on the counter or table near it? Can you hang a floral patterned sheer curtain or window shade for the view?

I feel it’s important to have something living…plant-wise in our homes. We need to see green life, it helps purify the air we breathe. Plus we need something to tend to. If you don’t have a green thumb or travel alot, why not bring home a bouquet of fresh flowers from the grocery store. Costs about the same as a coffee and lasts about a week.

Try it and watch it change your mood. It really will!