March 15, 2010
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It's all about green stuff.
Money!!
No, not really, but sometimes it seems that way, too.
No, I'm talkin' growing green stuff. Faron's into obsessing with the gardens even before it's time to plant anything. He built himself a garden "nursery" which now resides in the living room, but next winter, hopefully, it'll be out in his "man room," which, like the rest of the house, will have HEAT by then.
Years ago, when they were leaving this area, Lois gave me her typing table. She told me recently she'd gotten it when she was 21. That wa a few years ago.
Her parents got her an electric typewriter for her 21st birthday, and she bought the typing table. I used it in my "office' for years as a work table, and I think my word processor lived on it for years, too. When we went to computers and we bought a computer desk, I didn't need it anymore, and, quite frankly, I thought Faron pitched it. But no, it was just in the basement, waiting to be repurposed yet again. He put a piece of OSB on top of it to make it bigger, built a stand from some piping he had around the garage, took the florescent light that used to be over the work bench in the basement and hung it from this stand and voila! A mini-seedling nursery.
He spent less than $2 for some bolts to put the stand together. So far, a few of the tomatoes of sprouted, and that's it. He's got tomatoes, green peppers and cherry tomatoes in one, and several flowers going in the other.
Clever guy!
But for green stuff, the best place to see it at our house right now is down in the big garden:
They planted rye grass last fall to help restore some needed nutrients. They'll till it all under sometime soon, but for now it's a pretty green carpet in a sea of icky dead grass. I did notice that up here close to the house there's a BIT of green...can you tell where our septic tank is??
I've been a claying fool - I have a TON of stuff to sand and just as much waiting to be baked. I BUSY ME!
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Comments (1)
I've been thinking of trying a project like this (RIch would love that he made it from stuff that was hanging around!) but when I have tried starting seeds they always damp offI have SUCH a black thumb; it's really distressing. I do miss having a garden, being in the woods. But maybe it's so that I won't keep offending the Lord by murdering His green creatures.