The Woman at the Well, Gardening

2,000 years ago St Photini met Jesus at Jacob's well.  She was living with a man to whom she wasn't married.  Jesus said go and sin no more.  Where did she go?  Did she become homeless?  We know from other sources that she had two children.  Did she make them homeless, too?  Did she have any responsibilities to the man who sheltered her?  All of these questions are left unanswered in the Bible.  To mix history with a parable, are all of these things the thorns Jesus talked about in the Parable of the Sower.  (June 25 Update:  Whoops!  I conflated the woman at the well with the woman caught in adultery.  I hate when I do stuff like that.)

This has been a cold and wet May.  In fact, at 3:30 p.m. today it was 58 degrees and raining.  I heard this is the coldest wettest may since 1949.  I believe it.  Last year we were gathering baskets full of tomatoes, cucumbers, and squash by mid-May.  It has been so cool and cloudy all spring that, as of yesterday, we've only picked three tomatoes and three squash.   This afternoon I planted camomile seeds around the onions.  (Whenever I think think of the word camomile I am reminded of this story.) I planted English daisies at the feet of the sunflowerrs, which are not blooming yet because there is no sun.  And I planted marigolds at the end of one of the tomato beds.  They should all germinate in 5 to ten days.  One of the cucumber vines and one of the pumpkin vines were infested with thrips.  I used an organic pesticide on them but I am worried it will harm the bees, butterflies, and lady bugs.