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Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
6. Like it sounds everyone else is,
Sun May 27, 2012, 05:28 PM
May 2012

I am exhausting myself. I have finally stopped mostly because winds came in so bad that I figured a storm was coming fast. Well, we didn't get rain with it, just thunder and lightning and wind....lots of branches down now. Ugh.

I got my peppers and tomatoes in cardboard boxes (a new experiment that I think will be a mistake---if you try this, use very strong boxes, but don't ask me why I say that). I also got all my flowers in containers and even drug out all the garden decorations...some I have not used for years. I ran into some stupid problems that had to be hilarious to people watching me---like both hoses that I connected outside have sprung leaks----why is it that all the leaks end up spraying right up at you??? I also restrung some windchimes, removed rust and repainted some of the garden decor, and cleaned gutters.

And my gardens are overrun by spreading crap that will not be destroyed, even after years of trying. And I have not made any efforts to work on them yet. There just isn't enough time in the day when you work all week----and it is too dry already to make that a task that isn't impossible.

Oh well, I have other days!

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