Runaway October

I think this is the ear­li­est in the year that I’ve had a tan. But for good rea­son! My gar­den beds are pretty much done except for a few tweaks here and there.

My won­der­ful hus­band was patient enough to put these together for me yes­ter­day. I only nagged a lit­tle.

Once done, we ran to Home Depot and picked out soil. Not organic, but you make due with what you have. We chose to use the old “2 of every­thing” plan for soil since we didn’t have the resources to go pick up all the free “fer­til­izer” to be found on Craigslist.

Adding soil is seri­ous busi­ness in need of dou­ble super­vi­sion. Obviously.

Nice butt! –wolf whistle–

All filed and ready to plant. There was an irri­ga­tion drip line run­ning under the pre-existing gar­den that we were unaware of. Matt sliced it with the shovel when turn­ing over the dirt. We decided to bring it up and use it instead of just replac­ing the leaky sec­tion. I still need to run lines to each plant, but that’s easy. That’s what the black tub­ing is run­ning along the fence.

Here’s what I’ve got to work with. I had planned on using mainly seeds, but I was wor­ried that by the time they sprouted and had started to set fruit that the heat would make them go dormant.

Planted. Yay! We’ve got 13 tomato plants (Roma, Heir­loom Brandy­wine and Super 100 Cher­ries), Car­rots, Bush Beans, Dill, and Leeks in one bed. Pick­ling Cucum­bers, Jalapenos, Habaneros, Cowhorn Pep­pers, Crook­neck Squash, Hon­ey­dew, Ste­via, Cin­na­mon Basil, Spearmint and Cilantro in the other.

I still need to plant these straw­ber­ries in a con­tainer. They seem to do bet­ter when I can move them around as needed. And find some­one who wants to pro­vide these hon­ey­dews with a home.

See that bird­feeder on the left there? My MIL bought it for me.

So there’s my spring gar­den for the year. At this rate I wont even need sun­screen when we tube down the river this year.

What are you plant­ing this year?

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I have a con­fes­sion. I can be quite a slob.

The evi­dence: Exhibit A — My craft room, The SMOR (sewing machine oper­a­tions room), about 24 hours ago.

When we bought this house, we knew one of the rooms would be used for hob­bies. Unfor­tu­nately, we had been using the din­ing room table pre­vi­ously so we had no fur­ni­ture to set up in there. About the time we moved, I was given a very nice cut­ting table and sewing machine desk. They came from a fam­ily friend who had passed away. Sadly, she was a heavy smoker and smoked in her hobby room. The tables just ooze nicotine.

My father in law con­vinced me that I shouldn’t try to paint them, as they’re cov­ered in melamine. While I’m fairly cer­tain I would be able to repaint them, new fur­ni­ture would be eas­i­est. Of course I decided this after try­ing to clean one of the tables with bleach (Bleck!) and ruin­ing a per­fectly good skirt.

So I struck a deal with my hus­band. If I clean the craft room, could we build new fur­ni­ture for the room? He agreed, poor sap.

So this is where it stands cur­rently. Not “clean” per se, but every­thing has been gone through and sorted and I found all kinds of stuff I had for­got­ten about! Score. My M.O. was to grab what I needed, take it down stairs to craft, bag/box up what­ever was left and toss it in the SMOR when I was done. Bad bad. I had at least 15 empty boxes when I was done, and dou­ble that amount of bags to recycle

(I still need to vac­uum, obviously.)

This is the table I want we’ll be mak­ing, free plans cour­tesy of Knock Off Wood. It’ll go well with the IKEA Expe­dit book­case that’s in there currently.

I know that if I had a vehi­cle right now, me and the boys would be ter­ror­iz­ing Home Depot and Lowe’s. I’ll keep you posted on our progress. I’m super excited to make my own craft fur­ni­ture, and for so much less than Pot­tery Barn too!