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Posted on 08/05/2004 5:47:31 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
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Now, Hair...that sounds like a CHALLENGE!! I remember trying to keep the cat in the house!
Wanna come visit, say about May next year? ;-)
Half height milk crates, kinda? The full sized ones...I can't imagine burying them even half way!
I think I could probably get the cinderblocks cheaper, though...there are usually some in the classified paper here that someone is getting rid of after a building project, and even new it might cost me twenty bucks to do the whole frame...I can live with that.
This is all hard to think about when winter is on its way, though! We were all discussing snowshoes already yesterday...yikes! I don't have my own pair, but really want to do that this year.
I'm thinking we can temporarily run some fencing across the side yard from the corner of the house to the fence on the redneck neighbor side, and let Gidget and the cat out through the back door only for a few days. I think the cat is too fat to fit through field fence, and I know he's too fat to go over it. ;~D
No, you don't bury the milk crate! LOL
We just use it to "mark" a square foot on the soil. We go across the bed marking 4'x4' sections using the milk crate as a guide. Push it into the dirt, pull it out and wah-lah...you have a perfect square foot marked in the dirt.
After you get it all marked out, you can section off the square foot with your finger, drawing in the dirt. Say you were gonna plant four plants per square foot...you'd just draw a + in the square foot, dividing it into 4.
Ah! OK, now I get it! I thought you meant you buried them and used them as dividers somehow...was trying to picture that! Especially since they wouldn't exactly keep soil in...
That makes sense!
I dunno...that was one determined cat! LOL!
Steve and I grilled 10lbs of chicken on the Road Grill last night...the entire neighborhood smelled of chicken! It was delicious though.
He got my oven back together, which did wonders for my mood. It was disheartening having pieces of oven all over the kitchen. Now he just has to get the part ($60) and I'll have my oven back.
Until then, we grill massive quantities of meat on the grill every weekend, to last the whole week!
We have plastic landscape stuff that surrounds the entire bed that keeps the soil in and the grass from (usually) growing through. We never did divide the beds up on the inside permanently...just long enough to plant.
A big deal around here (not so much this summer) is the heat. You can't keep the garden watered! And then on top of that, our soil is almost pure riverbottom sand. Very rich, plants love it...but it doesn't hold moisture at all. So we mulch with very deep hay. Eight inches thick at least. That really keeps the weeds out.
Thanks for all you do Winmag! I think it's kinda cool that folk are looking us up from word of mouth or they've seen a knife! You sure spotted a gadget that would be needed, nifty and useful when you found those knives!
Fitness Dwarf made it to the gym. 6 out of the last 7 days...But my back is bothering me. I don't have back trouble. I go to the chiropractor for nerve stuff, this is in a different area of the back. Sitting through the service yesterday, specially since I'm in the middle of the back choir row, was just down right painful. Must discuss with the chiropractor.
Suzi - yep, and it's still soggy here...Nana has been complaining that the weather makes her feel worse. And I believe that. Although yesterday she realized she's been without one of her meds for six weeks...sigh...
Rosie - I think once you read the Sq. Ft. gardening book, you won't think it that complicated. You can check out his web site too. I hope to do it next year, but I have to find some flat sunny spots (gotta get some trees down). And you could mark off the sections with string. It's not that they have to be separate as much as it is to organize them. I'm thinking of lashing together a bamboo frame that will just lay down on top of the bed.
Ruthy - school already? Jr. doesn't go back until September 7th. It's the "Kings Dominion" law here. The tourist industry lobbied and got it signed into law that localities cannot start before Labor Day. They do grant extensions to rural areas. But it sux for us cause school goes through mid-June.
Here's our tomato bed. You can just barely see the border of it, but it's that black plastic edging. The hay is very thick, but compacted down...
I'll get a picture of our okra bed too...it's very tidy. We don't have to stake or protect it in any way...nothing, not even gophers, eat okra!
I've been doin' pretty good with the exercise side of things, but worse with the diet, mostly just extra snacking rather than outright cheating, but...I need a slave driver. Or a refrigerator lock. Or - this is a novel thought - will power.
At least I'm maintaining.
Looks vey nice! Man...I really hope next year I can have something neater, in any case. I really hate that I'm such a slob in every single part of my life. *sigh*
I walked Becky to school this morning in unspeakable sticky heat! YUCK! A/C never felt so good!
Now I'm here in this lovely cubicle and starting my day with the major "blahs". Mebbe I need some breakfast....
It's cool here in the mornings, but gonna be warm and dry all week. No rain predicted.... and little chance of hurricanes.
We've had an unbelievably cool and pleasant summer this year and now it's almost over. We never even had to water our yard!
I gotta go...my day job just got up and is pleading for breakfast! See you guys later!
Oh, Suzi...the jedis classes started recording Sunday morning at 2am...we start school next Monday!
:-) You're evil!
See you when we see you, 2J!
I dunno. It feels more bone oriented than muscle, if that makes sense. Sitting up straight at my desk seems to help. I couldn't sit up straight enough in the choir loft.
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