Relief

As I sit here, buckets of cooling rain fall. The entire atmosphere is churning and cranking out this glorious water. After working 8 hours in the scorching sun on the asphalt yesterday, my skin feels parched and broasted today. I was a hot pink mess yesterday, crabby and irritated at those that would leave me stranded to take care of dozens of trees. A corporation that wouldn't even help me buy lowering the price to $5. just to get rid of them. A company that didn't offer support to the last rep on the road, trying to dispose of the landscape waste, disguised as perennials and shrubs and clematis that nobody wanted.
That is almost over, today I sit in my big comfy robe watching the cleansing rain do it's thing. Washing away the grime and sticky and mulberry stains, it is also washing away another summer retail season for the grower that employs me in the summer.
I am relieved this is over. There has been some sort of financial hiccup in the company I work for and the support system is not there. They did not come and pick up the remaining trees and plants, and it caused so many problems for me, this week. I am angry and I am burnt.
I do have lots of free plant material, ready for my deer resistant border. I should not say "free". I should say as a result of many hours of sweat and hard work, I was able to bring home plants nobody else wanted.
See? The rain is softening my memory, already.

edit: @ 10:00, I still sit in my robe, in front of the TV, catching up on blogs and not moving plants! The rain still falls and Gracie tries to catch a fly.