Pondering with a Purpose - New things

Welcome to Pondering with a Purpose -

 This is my weekly hop where I post a prompt and you get to write to it on your - come back here and add it to my linky and then we all get to go read what you wrote!

I started Pondering with a Purpose because -- simply put -- I am a writer - - that is what I do (I just can't help myself)! And although I love following all the hops, I wanted to see if I could bring out some creativity in not only myself, but some of my blogger friends as well.

The rules are really easy:

1. Grab the Pondering with a Purpose Badge (in my sidebar)

2. Look at the week's prompt
3. Post something on your blog that relates to the prompt - it can be a story, a poem, a picture -- anything you want it to be.
4. Come back here and add the URL from your post to the linky list below.
5. Go check out the other bloggers who have added their links to the list.
6. AND most of all.... Have fun!

This Week's prompt: New

Have you learned a new trick? NO... I don't mean that kind of trick....

A couple of weeks ago we talked about the talents we had that our children either did or didn't pick up on... so that got me to thinking about what we have learned from our children (or if you don't have children...) or later in life.

(That flower bed used to be full and lush!)

ME? Well, I learned to garden later in life... and there are times I love it and there are times I really couldn't be bothered with it. Right now I am growing peppers (in a pot because I have a beagle that digs up EVERY flower bed in my yard) that came from the seeds of the red pepper I was eating. I decided I wanted to try and grow vegetables again, but because of (see above) I have limited space because I am using pots on top of a table.....

 I really want to grow cucumbers, but I'm not sure how they'll do growing from a pot and spreading across a table.. BUT I am going to try...

AND then my daughter got flowers from her husband and there were these beautiful sunflowers in the vase... I certainly couldn't let them go to waste... so I am.... drying out the flowers and am going to plant the seeds in that poor flower bed that my dog is trampling! (Wonder if beagles climb up stocks?)

I really taught myself how to garden....it's not that hard if you take the time to figure out what the plants need... water, sunshine, bug repellent, snail poison, (oooooo we don't like snails!) (and no I don't use poison... I just smash them!)

So I'm wondering... is there a talent you have that you have picked up later in life?

I'd love to read your comments, or read your post that you link up... or better yet... both!

Happy Pondering!