Elf On A Shelf

For those of you who are waiting for the magical red suited sprite to leap out of the cupboard to do your holiday makeovers, you may have a long wait coming. I, however, must have my own elf who pops out when needed and least expected.

A few posts back I had mentioned that I had not gotten around to the gardening fall chore of cleaning up the raspberry bushes to prepare them for the winter onslaught of weather. After writing the story, I again put that chore on the back burner while many old projects continued to nag and new tasks kept piling on. I had pretty much forgotten about the raspberries at all.

It was a very pleasant surprise when I came home from a meeting to find my very own Elf On A Shelf had wrangled the beast of the prickly canes into submission. All the spent canes had been removed and the canes that are now a year old and will produce in the spring, have been trained into clean rows. The weeds and grass that invades the bed had all been pulled and the bed itself got a nice trimming around the perimeter.

The raspberries are all trained up inside their wires and look like they are ready for a comfortable slumber through the rest of the dormant cycle. And while she was at it, she tackled the most vicious Logan berries at the same time and got them all cleaned up and prepared for winter.

In my mind I can already taste the delicious fruit that will arrive right after the strawberry season. My garden sprite had taken on that task (she must have been reading my blog) and the garden looks beautiful. Thank you for an early holiday present!

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