Ow, my hands and arms are all sting-y from the palmetto thorns today.  I woke up with all intention to get my monthly billing out of the way first thing, but then thought to set the sprinkler up in the yard.  As I looked around the property, I noticed the natural walls I line the driveway with each season using bamboo and palmetto fronds were deteriorating.   I got my wire cutters and disassembled the west wall.  It took about 5 minutes as the dead fronds just dissolved.  I saved the longer young bamboo stalks and took the old, rotted ones along with the palmetto remnants out to the street.  I took stock of the ficus growing there, and began to weave a wall using the young bamboo and a few sturdy older pieces.  One purpose of the wall is to give me privacy when someone pulls into the driveway.  Another is to block the view and sound from neighbors to give us all privacy.  I repeated the wall on the east side, and hung some longer bamboo between the loquat trees.  The loquats are bearing fruit like crazy!  

I built myself a little bamboo hut type awning for my office window.  Now when I look outside, I see only inside my little courtyard: maximum privacy.  It was fun weaving all the little bamboo stalks into place, deciding which goes where and why.  Doing a project like that reminds me that, no matter what it is, as soon as we have a handful of materials, the Universe will help us to form it into exactly what we need at the time. Take what you have and make what you want.

I didn’t wake up thinking to spend today doing yard work.  It began by me noticing just one little thing and then following my guidance until I ended up with thorny torn arms, 3 hours later, with an entire new driveway scene with my newly woven walls.    Now that I look at it, I have an idea for making the west one more sturdy and to space the bamboo evenly rather than hang in natural clumps.  We’ll see.  Now I’m inspired to play in the yard.  Billing will have to wait.