Gardening the Garden

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I had to build the thing 3 times before I found those metal corner things to hold the damn thing together!  And then Thor had to do the power screwdriver thing for me cuz I wasn’t strong enough.

Ah, you are a true initiate into the wonders of home projects now!  I think the rule is, it generally takes three times longer than you thought it would, and you have to go back to the store at least twice for stuff after you thought you had everything you needed to do it.  Those metal corner thingies, oh yes, *how* many times have I nailed something together, as if it was going to hold, haha, little foolish bunny!  So trusting!  So happy to be nailing!  So ignorant of engineering realities!  Heck, we weren’t raised in a hardware store, what *are* all those things in there?  It sure is interesting finding out how many weird hardware things there are that do different things.  Maybe we’re supposed to find out the hard way to build character or something? I don’t have any arm strength either.  I have to have help with stuff like that too.  I maintain that this is one of those times when Thor was meant to fulfill his biological destiny and screw in your screws for you.  This also works for oil changes and anything else you think you can get away with, use this line early and often! Attractive?????  WOW.  (you can’t quite see it in the pictures, but twine at the bottom of the legs keeps them from splaying outwards)

It sure is attractive, it looks great!  That is excellent, twine is a very gardeny, outdoorsy thing, and should be allowed to fulfill its stringy destiny and keep things from splaying for you. I’m seriously impressed. Well NOW I am!  :-DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

I should think so!  I’d sure be proud of myself if I were you.  That’s one hot little setup there you did, you can display that with pride any eight days of the week.  If I did that, I would be going back and looking at it and looking at it and go back in the house and then go back outside to admire it some more.  It’s something to delight in! But i do have to tell you that the side part that was removed…. um…… is cattywampus.  The top part fits nicely inside the frame.  The bottom cares?!?  It keeps the squirrels out.

Exactly!  I figure that’s what a frame is for, framework is the stuff that we put the other stuff on.  It doesn’t matter exactly where it goes as long as it all holds together.  Think of the frame as the framework, the skeleton that you build on, instead of a frame like around a picture to hold things in, and then you will see that you did it perfectly! You have pilfering squirrels?  What do they like to go after? Have you hung around the rec.gardens hierarchy much?  I love those A little bit.  There’s so much there!  

So much that it can make your head spin! I joined a square foot gardening mailing list.  The first mailing list i’ve ever joined before!  It overwhelms me of course.

Oh, that sounds like a goody.  Maybe I’ll try to find that one.  Gawd, mailing lists, a lot of them *are* overwhelming.  I subscribe to several and read very very little.  There’s no way to keep up with all that stuff and still have time to *do* things instead of *reading* about things.  Is that one very high volume?  Square foot gardening is something I really want to do a lot of in raised beds this year. I have at least 50 insect URLs now.

!!!  FIFTY?!?!  Good lord, girl, you *are* a maven!  We’ll have to start calling you the Queen Ladybug! take five years and mumbledy-mumble zillion dollars to put in. Gardening lust can be serious when it takes hold. Um…… YUP.  I’ve had a harvest so far of FOUR pea pods…..  and I don’t want to tell you how much $$ i’ve spent on those 4 pea pods.

Heh, I can believe it.  The initial cash outlay makes the first veggies cost a lot per pound, but when you have the basics in, it gets cheap after that.  I can rationalize anything — I figure (I’m always figuring to rationalize something) it’s like when you buy a house, it’s expensive and you could stay at the Holiday Inn for a lot cheaper, but it amortizes out after the beginning and then you’ve got your good deal.  Weren’t those four pea pods precious to you?  Your own baby pea pods!  From your very own first wombn garden!  *You* made them happen.  And the satisfaction of harvesting your own veggies for dinner, how can you beat that?  You are a groovy earth woman now.  You were in your heart, you dreamed it, and you nurtured the dream and now you’re nurturing your garden and will reap the harvest.  Your garden is part of your heart come to breathing life.  What a wonderful place it must be. Very nice job!  Thank you muchly for the pictures, and please feel free to post more early and often! THANK YOU!

I will offer bribes for more pictures!  We want to see wombn’s pea pods! Thank YOU for further inspiration! — Bunny

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I’m a beginner-beginner at EVERY aspect of this gardening and woodworking stuff.  I’se doin’ the best I can.

These are absolutely wonderful Wombn! I am VERY impressed! It sure doesn’t look like a beginners job to me! Congratulations on a job excellently done! Mary Beth

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Laugh?!   It looks great!  It looks really fabulous!  If you’re not bursting-your-buttons-off proud of what you’ve done there, I don’t know what you’re waiting for! And you’re a beginner?  You really have an aptitude and a good eye for this stuff, wombn.  It’s both functional and attractive.  What a terrific start you’ve made, and it’s not even officially summer yet.   I’m seriously impressed. Have you hung around the rec.gardens hierarchy much?  I love those newsgroups, but there’s so much stuff there, I get lost and sidetracked. I’ll go to find something specific, and find so much information and so many ideas that I come out with a head full of stuff I want to do that will take five years and mumbledy-mumble zillion dollars to put in.  Gardening lust can be serious when it takes hold. Very nice job!  Thank you muchly for the pictures, and please feel free to post more early and often! — Bunny, still hasn’t gotten the herb garden in yet — only my thyme and some mint survived the winter

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wombn said: Also, in this new (rental) house, he has lots more room than before. Approximately twice as much room.  And more windows to patrol.  And more outdoor neighbor cats & squirrels and birds to yowl at from all those lovely windows

I’ve noticed also that since Hopper and I have moved out of the truck Hopper has been slimming down again… granted he never was fat but he had obviously gained weight… now since we are in a house and he once again has room to race around at top speed… running up and down the stairs… he’s looking so much better… liah Cats are confident, not conceited.  Don’t confuse their aplomb with arrogance.

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