Thanks Denise!

I think if there was one thing my otherwise dysfunctional parents left me with, it was being trained in "delayed gratification" from a very young age. Good things are worth waiting for... one of the things I love about gardening is precisely the whole process of anticipating spring, planting, and then watching your work come to fruition over time... often with some interesting surprise along the way.

Even as a teenager, I tended to pursue "slow" activities and hobbies like fishing, long distance running, stamp collecting, golf...