There are many versions of the saying, “Before you judge, walk a mile in the other man’s shoes.”
Of course, what is being said, is don’t judge others until you know their story, how and/or where they live and their life’s experiences.
I like to think I do that, but of course it’s difficult to do in every situation.
This past weekend, I learned to have even more respect for my gardener.
About seven years my wife and I bought a luxury vacation home in Scottsdale, AZ. After we bought it, we gutted it and completely renovated it to suite our tastes and needs.
We love it and spend about four months a year there.
Of course, when not there we need people to look after it.
We have a gardener, pool person and security inspector who checks on the place continually.
Actually, even when we are in town we keep the gardener and pool person working.
One of our ongoing projects is to slowly add a few more desert plants to the garden. Usually when we do, we have the gardener plant them.
However, I’m not going to se the gardener before we leave for Cabo San Lucas, Mexico for a month so I decided to plant our latest addition on my own.
It is a very young, small Argentine Giant, cactus. (photo below)
They grow to be huge and have fabulous flowers, which bloomed the day after I planted it.
This one is only about a foot tall and needed a hole of about a foot deep and a foot square. Sound simple, right?
Well, I don’t know if you’ve ever tried digging in the desert anywhere? But the ground is VERY compacted and like chipping through sandstone!
I don’t know how the plants grow roots through it, but they do.
Digging this small hole took me about 45 minutes with a normal shovel, in 90-degree weather. I was sweating profusely.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have a “pick,” that would have made things a little easier.
But I now know what I’m asking of my gardener each time I ask him to plant another cactus for me.
There’s a reason I don’t do this sort of work generally. It’s because I hate it and I don’t have the right tools for the job.
I much prefer to pay other people and work online to make the money to pay them.
We all have our areas of expertise and/or areas we enjoy to work in. Physical labor for me, isn’t one of them. I prefer my workouts at the gym.
So if you’re like me and prefer to pay other people to labor type jobs or other things you don’t like to do, you need to be making your money elsewhere.
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