Weeds and wheelbarrows

Yesterday I pulled weeds and cleaned out the flower beds in the front of our house. I am trying to get our home in shape to put on the market. I am thinking we could make a profit and build again. I started working early before the sun got too high and the temperature rose. The ground was moist so the weeds came up easily without much effort. My husband bought a wheelbarrow a few months ago after years of being without one. His theory was my piles of pulled weeds and messes would clean up easier if I just put the stuff in the barrow and carried it off when full. I could not believe what a difference this wheelbarrow thing made. I pulled all the weeds and my son scooped it up with a great big shovel and put it in the wheelbarrow. No piles on the sidewalk or multiple trips to carry it off by hand. I think about the many items I have wanted in life. New car, new couch, new bedroom suite, new house, etc. I have never requested a wheelbarrow, I just did not know how bad I needed it. I had never understood the increased amount of work it caused by not having a wheelbarrow. I had seen people in their yard with shovels and a barrow, working just as I do, but I did not realize what I needed to help me. I was able to sharpen the front of our home in half the time and not cause such a mess doing it. I learned something yesterday. Just because I grew up without a wheelbarrow and made it, doesn't mean I have to live without one. Just because I never learned to work with a wheelbarrow doesn't mean I can't learn now. Just because I learned to pull weeds as a child it doesn't mean I can't learn a better way as an adult. Life is about living and learning everyday. My husband fussed at me because I had never gotten the wheelbarrow out of the shed to use it. I was still using my old way of making messy piles and then going back to clean up. When I finally took the effort to use the the wheelbarrow my work was cut in half! A nice new piece of equipment that I did not know could help me until I used it. Such is life. We can continue in our old familiar ways of coping. We can keep making our work harder, less effective. We can hold unto to the stuff we've done in the past, or we can learn something new. We can learn a better way for a better life. I think I'll just go look at my flower beds one more time, afterall, they look pretty darn good.