Flower Class

 My 'ever current' novel

My novel, The Orchard Walk- El Dueck, is all about the currency of history. The reason I chose the fictional property to be called... The Winery Inn is because of the Revelation- making water into wine- vineyards of time origins. I had been reading and studying the original story for about 40 years when I wrote a current story to keep history alive. The reason I preferred and chose the name The Orchard Walk is because an orchard has much more fruit in it than just grapes... blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, peaches, oranges, apples; the list is very long for tasty, edible fruits. 

Learn from the past is what wise people will often say when teaching someone how to live so they don't make too many mistakes that cause them suffering.

The original plan for my novel was a two volume project. The first volume, already published in hard cover, has 7 cabins in it. I changed the names of some in my second novel to include some characteristics.

My plan was, actually, very good and I'll tell you why. The real estate my sons' owned, simple houses I have mentioned on my blog, would be much more authentic to the story of history and the survival of a human rights race, such as the people who collectively won the second world war.

If I so chose, I could take a name from my novel and apply it to the little house I live in but, instead, what I chose to do was... 

Page 18... "It was a gazebo, completely screened in and looking really comfy,..."

This is a photo before it was... really comfy!

Structure comes before inside fittings and you don't need much in a 12 x 12 gazebo.

If I named all the flowers and plants I have planted here in four years' time, you'd be mighty impressed. 

I certainly spent more than $2,000 or maybe even three, of my inheritance money, on 'growing where I'm planted.'

Why, just yesterday, my husband asked where I was going to plant my double flowering plum bush... because... 'we're running out of room,' he said.

I really like calling my sons' property, The Winterton House. It sounds so dignified. For the novel, we might have to ask him if he prefers a different name... I did sketch out Willowherb as a possibility in novel II. His opinion is the important one for that property. If he ever moves, he can take the name with him. The power of class lies within a person and is then exemplified in behaviour of respect and the proper treatment of other human beings.

My little gazebo weathered the storm last night. 

This is a 'mood picture' with the skies looking dark and as night was approaching, in this early building of this gazebo, I was amazed that I held up one wall to put the bolts in to keep it together. Wow! Don't do this on a windy day. My husband was almost crazy expecting me to do this but... I did hold it up until it was fastened together.

My advice to you would be to follow the instructions in the pamphlet as to how many 'men' should be doing this kind of job. 

This gazebo was mostly built by a little woman and a little man, when he was available.

I planted a 'Dr. Alex Fleming' peony next to my rugosa rose, in the back yard, and the blooms are, finally, open after the storm.

It takes a while for peonies to establish. I planted this bush two years ago. 

Just as history should be remembered, the discovery of penicillin is still considered a curative for infectious diseases. One son had a mico- plasma pneumonia, as a child, and that was a 'mask- room' disease. He got it from swimming in a quarry. Grateful we are for curatives.

Planting is honourable.

All the creative writing, in my novel, is so easily lived wherever you go. Just be sure to make things better than they were when you got there!