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Category: gardening among the rocks | Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:37 am

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It's been raining here, and I'm so glad for it. My favorite place when it's raining is out in my garden shed, the one I put pictures of in an earlier blog. It's so quiet where I live, the rain falling on the roof is the only sound. It patters on the shingles, and rattles on the corrugated plastic on the greenhouse side. The only thing that makes me sad about the rain and cold is that it means that my veggies are just going to spoil. Oh well, they'll mush down into fertilizer.
The bunnies are prodigiously producing pellets that I will spread on the garden beds in a couple of weeks, after the leaves drop off. And my worm bin will be dumped out into the poo pile so the little wigglers can chomp through that bit of leavings through the winter. Gardeners are not a squeamish bunch!
I'm working on my Christmas cards, laying in watercolor washes in shades of blue, but I haven't found the effect I'm after yet. If I get one right I'll post it here in December as a card to anyone who clicks on my blog.
Hopefully I can post here more often now that I've valiantly fought off that rotten cold bug- huzzah, I am victorious ye foul invisibly small invader!
Edit: well this isn't worth starting a new blog over, but I gotta let off some steam. We fenced in our whole 5 acres 'cuz we have a dog as dumb as a box o' rocks. OK, I can handle a "special needs" dog, even if that means spending too much on field wire. Anyhow, I couldn't find said mutt to put her in while I dashed to the busstop to pick up my daughter. 5 minutes max, it was raining, I left the gate open. In that 5 minutes El Mutt ran out, found something dead, and rolled in it!!! So I had to go out in the rain and give her a bath!!! Grrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!! ok, feel better now, big gulp of hot tea. Thanks forletting me vent.



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eileen wrote on Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:37 am:

"Hopefully I can post here more often now that I've valiantly fought off that rotten cold bug- huzzah, I am victorious ye foul invisibly small invader!"

Definately a battle well won. Don't you just HATE having a cold as it makes you feel soooo rough.

You must show us an example of your Chrissie cards once you've finished them.

I agree about garden sheds - 2nd home for me too!!

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reggaefan wrote on Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:15 am:

Glad to hear you are feeling better. I reposted the poemyou named I posted It as " The Bitter Cup" thanks for your help. Solider on

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Gardenstew wrote on Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:36 am:

>>> huzzah, I am victorious ye foul invisibly small invader! <<<

HAHAHA I think someone has been watching too much Monty Python X-D

>>> It's so quiet where I live, the rain falling on the roof is the only sound. It patters on the shingles, and rattles on the corrugated plastic on the greenhouse side. <<<

I love being in a shed during rain, always have and I don't know why. Something from my childhood I suppose.

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pondlady wrote on Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:27 pm:

I'll stay in my cool house during our rain, thank you very much. You can go sit in the hot metal shed if you like.
Look forward to seeing your card, CP.

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CritterPainter wrote on Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:45 pm:

Hot, pondlady? It was about 50 outside at the time. Tsk, you southerners :)
Oooh busted, I probably have been watching too much Python. I can also whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore. (though I'm not the very model of a modern major general)

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