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I also rest the foliage They were even less welcome than the weeds I wished with all my heart that they would eat the weeds, if I was honest

There were plenty of those

“What are you doing?”

I squealed and dropped a giant slug onto my lap “Ew!” I quickly retrieved it and put it in the wheelbarrow, then looked up at Miles “You scared me”

He stared at ?”

I glanced down at the pile of weeds in the wheelbarrow “Planting vegetables”

If I didn’t know better, I’d say he tried not to smile Sadly, I knew better, and it would take et Mr Grumpy over there to smile

“You’re doing my job”

I sighed, tossing another weed into the barrow “I know, but I need to destress, so I thought I’d do so useful and therapeutic”

Miles raised an eyebrow “You find weeding therapeutic”

“You don’t?” I questioned

“Not particularly It’s ”

“You’re weird”

“I don’t know a single person who enjoys weeding, and I know a great ardeners”

“Then they aren’t doing it correctly,” I argued “What isn’t enjoyable about yanking out a weed? It’s like eating the heads off Jelly Babies”

He stared at me for a moment “Do you have a God complex?”

“I did spend an inordinate aer,” I replied, tilting my head to the side “That explains a lot”

He cleared his throat “Well, if you’re really enjoying yourself, it’s worse in the vegetable garden Oxalis is threatening to take over the squash bed”

“Are you giving arden?”

He shrugged “It’s your garden I can’t stop you going anywhere”

Huh

“Can I go in the greenhouse?”

“You’re not going in reenhouse”

“You just said you can’t stopanywhere”

“I didn’t reenhouse when I said that”