THE WEEDING has been accomplished. The soil amending has not. One of my kind readers sent over a link to an article about 'lasagna' amending, though and I am definitely going to go for that in some parts of our little garden. This basically involves composting right on the ground. No tilling and digging. I'm sure I can get away with it over in the 'dead zone' where nothing is growing these days and then use the 'part two' method for where we actually need to plant.We don't have any of our own compost since the whole bee incident. We never got our compost bin back in the game. Any second though, one of us might be compelled to muck around in the worm farm. Maybe some of the worms will get sprung from their work camp and go to live in the garden. I don't really mind mucking around with the worms, it's just so very messy to drag the canister out and put it in the sun so the worms leave the top layer.I can tell you, they don't really do what the instructions say they do, either. They don't really leave when you take the top off and go to a lower layer. If they do, it must take eons. I always end up picking about a million worms out of the goo I want for the garden. The last time I did it, all I saw when I closed my eyes were worms, worms, worms. It took hours and hours, both tot harvest the castings and to stop seeing worms when I closed my eyes.I'll offer it up for the Poor Souls in Purgatory and for the fallen that have gone on to Purgatory here on Memorial Day. I think the last time I dug around in the worms it was also Memorial Day. Memorial Day has become worm casting harvest day around here.Is that wrong? Perhaps I should pick another day in the future.Speaking of wrong. A reader takes issue with our notes about the rosary as a sacramental.I"T'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT A ROSARY ISN'T A SACRAMENTAL UNLESS A PRIEST HAS BLESSED IT."You're not entirely wrong. But there is some confusion. There is more than one type of sacramental and that's where we've gone a little haywire here.We think of a lot of things as sacramentals that aren't actually sacramentals....yet." For example, the medal of a saint, like the ones we have in our shop, is considered by many to be a sacramental, because it can be" a sacramental. But it isn't "actually" a sacramental until the medal is blessed by a priest.It's a "big fat sin" to sell blessed objects, by the way. I've found that somehow the confusion over an object being a sacramental and blessed causes people to assume that our medals are blessed when they arrive in your mailbox.I assure you, they are not. Until you have them blessed by a priest yourself, they are not sacramentals.In fact, any object that has been blessed by a priest is a sacramental. I admit I have a little bit of trouble entirely getting my brain around this idea. A sacramental is defined as something that brings your closer to the Seven Sacraments and therefore closer to God. So when you have your car blessed, it's a sacramental? I guess you can drive to church in it.Anyhow, a rosary is a sacramental all on it's own because "prayers can also be sacramentals "and the prayer of the rosary has been deemed a sacramental by the Catholic Church. A blessed rosary also carries certain indulgences, which brings us back to square one of our discussion.I hope this clears things up. A rosary is a sacramental all on it's own because it is both prayer and an object. When you have it blessed you just 'super size' it.
