I am one of those folks who will reuse or repurpose something until it literally is no more. Take my canning pot, as an example. Once the enamel got a bit chipped, it started rusting rendering it not the best for canning. Since I had three of the same pot, I simply got down another from the upper shelf and relegated the rusty one to be used in the greenhouse. There, rust does not matter. Plants are not choosy when it comes to containers. So, the pot found a second life in the art of gardening.
The other day, I grabbed the pot that had been sitting upside down on the greenhouse floor for some time. I needed it to haul the fine compost to the garden. I filled the large pot time and time again and carefully deposited the mulch under the broccoli plants. With the last emptying, I had to start giggling! There, on the inside of the pot sat a blob of dirt from the last time the pot had been used. It was the perfect silhouette of a movie character...one of the most loved characters in the recent history of all movies...Grogu...better known as "Baby Yoda".
Yep, I had been carrying that pot for the last hour without ever noticing that image! After seeing it and having a fit of giggles in the middle of the garden, I figure there had to be a reason that Baby Yoda came to visit. In this old, messed-up world full of insecurities, bitter divisiveness and downright hostility, this puppet dude is the one thing that most folks agree on...he is adorable. So, finding his image in my garden (and I admit to having an overactive imagination) gave me the inspiration to plant more, share more and care more. Now...if only the image in my pot was green!...with big, sad, puppy-dog eyes and the innocence of a babe...I would be in awe. As it is, though, this is just little blob of dirt but the thought of Baby Yoda did brighten my day.
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