A piece from Mark Peters (via The Bygone Bureau) about Why Things Happen.
Author Peters notes in his bio how he manages to stay productive by breaking his work up into three parts: the dread, the middle and the regret. I totally relate. Personally, I am at my best when engaged in parts one and three.
Peters doesn't specifically cover garden type calamitous happenings (he can't do all our work for us people!), but at least when it comes to that? I have my own sources at the ready. The actual reason for anything that has not gone according to plan around our house and gardens?
It can all be laid at the feet of this:
One of these:
Or this guy:
