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Because everybody loves a makeover
OR what I’ve been doing other than blogging.
Before:
If you’re thinking to yourself, wow, that’s a lot of pink landscaping rock, well, you’d be right. It’s pink landscaping rock my daughter and I decided to remove by hand.
I’ll pause while you laugh.
Also, if you’re thinking pink rocks are the glitter of the landscaping world (we’re never getting rid of all of them), you’d be right as well.
I suppose the pink combined with the green hostas was a design aesthetic for a hot minute sometime in 1988. Mind you, the design and the rocks came with the house.
After:
I mean, clearly, we have nothing against pink. And sure, we could divide those hostas. They’re like super-hostas. They’ve been going strong for years decades without any intervention. At this point, I’m a little superstitious about doing anything with them.
Honestly, I think they’ll just continue to grow, become sentient, and take over the world. And really, we might all be better for it.
Filed under Gardening
Of writing tears and garden friends
So, I’ve been on a patented Jo March writing tear (I really need to get a writing cap like Jo has). This is on the new book (series, duology—your guess is as good as mine) I mentioned a while back.
It is coming along, which is all I’m going to say at this point in the project.
In other (wonderful) news: Spring. Has. Sprung.
We are planting, haphazardly, it’s true. Despite taking the master gardening course, I will most likely remain a haphazard gardener.
So, yes, that’s an entire flat of zinnias you see. No, I have no idea where I’m going to plant an entire flat of zinnias. It’s true our eyes are much bigger than our garden space.
Filed under Writing
How does your garden grow?
Bloganuary: What is something you learned recently?
I’m only a few lessons into the Master Gardener course, but I’ve learned a lot:
- Like how I can get a soil test from the University of Minnesota
- Or how I should rotate the “crops” in my raised beds this spring
- Or how to improve my compost pile—add water. But not now since everything—including the compost pile—is frozen solid
- Or how I properly (and somewhat unintentionally) prepared my raised beds last year (I’m kind of proud of this one—I was winging it)
Each lesson has additional resources and links and downloads. There’s enough information to provide a framework, but not so much that it’s overwhelming. It’s a nice way to spend a couple of hours each Sunday.
I’m looking forward to spring for so many reasons, but I’m really excited to put this new knowledge into practice.
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Weekly writing check-in: words and herbs
Still with the slow and steady progress. Somedays, I wish I could write faster, but at this point in time, this is how fast I’m going. It is what it is.
But it’s spring! So now when I end up stalled in the manuscript, I can step outside and do a little gardening.
Some people take their gardening very seriously. Us? Not so much.
Yesterday, my daughter and I bought a bunch of random plants at the garden center and had fun finding them new homes.
As you can see, the dogs helped too.
Filed under Weekly Writing Check In, Writing
Writing Wrongs 