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In Dave Barry’s annual Christmas Naughty list this year is a link to a delightful catalog company called Toscano. www.designtoscano.com

The item in question in Mr Barry’s naughty list was the garden zombie.
In a strange way I kind of want. Except that it would only be funny for the few weeks leading up to Halloween and the rest of the year it would be something else to clutter my newly cleaned and organized tool shed.

And now as seasonally festive as I’m feeling with the snow and the delightful lights on our house, I’m already looking forward to next spring and having gardening angst. The stupid garden zombie has awakened my absurd and misplaced gardening angst.
We need to finish winterizing the garage, get ready for Christmas, fix the upstairs bathroom and deal with likely many other unforeseen indoor tasks and expenses.
And yet I keep coming back to the mess that is my back yard. I think that philosophical giant Yoda summed it up best when he said “All h(er) life has (s)he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never h(er) mind on where (s)he was.”

Yeah, that’s why I’m up til nearly midnight. I ought to be focusing on dragging my well-rested derierre out of bed at 6:30 tomorrow instead of worrying about weeds and garden ornamentation.