So, I'm about worn out. And I like it. It feels good. Its almost the kind of good you feel after some really energetic, yet tiring, nookies. A good satisfying tired.
It was really nice out today (yeah, I know, Columbus, I'll get the rain from you fuckers soon enough), so I decided to make the most of it and putter around outside. My original goal was to root through the shed and try to locate a small garden trowel or something similar. No dice, man. I did find a piece of wood, smallish, and a full sized shovel, which I used.
There was already a garden area in the yard, it was just overgrown and bad... So I took the shovel and carved out a flat area to put a few landscaping timbers to enclose it, and then I tilled all the dirt up in the plot. That was such a pain in the ass. After the dirt was all good and crumbly, I went through and snatched out what weeds I felt like rooting for. I think I got most of them.
Next to that, there's anothere little patched off area that has, I believe, lavendar in it. Looks like lavander, anyway. So I left that. I weeded it pretty good and added new pine chips to the bed. There's also a smaller bit behind the lavander that has 2 plants in it that I can't identify, but they look healthy and don't look like weeds, so I left them and weeded that part too and added pine chips. It looks really really nice.
Theres a half a rain barrel/ flower pot thing out in the yard by the lamp post that I like, and it seems to have ivy that grows in it. I had taken out most of the dead stuff a few weeks ago to encourage it to grow better. Recently, I have been obsessing about 5 little garlic plants that I have been tending. I love them, sweet little growing things... <3 Anyway, I dug little holes out there in the potting soil that is in the barrel and lantd my little baby garlics in there. It should get plenty of light and all that, so, here's wishing them luck!
On the other side of the porch area, theres another timbered off area that runs along the side of the house. On first assessment, I thought it was another garden area, and so last December (Eh, heh heh heh....) I threw our pumpkins, seeds and all, as we never got around to caring them, out there. I'd also like to point out that there has been a piece f bright blue something-or-other out there for as long as anyone remembers.
Well, today I got around to investigating this part of the yard and it is NOT, in fact, a garden area, but maybe a grilling area. It's like a red bricked sidewalk. It was so overgrown that you couldn't see the brick anymore. So I did away with all that and cleaned it up nice. The pumpkins, as expected, were rotting mush, hopefully spweing forth their seeds to make me some more pumpkins. Here's hoping. But they were a nasty fucking puddle on the far end of this walk. I had to push them off onto the grass on the other side of the bordering timber.
This is when I saw and remembered the blue thing. So, I figured I may as well pull it up and throw it away, whatever it is. Well, its a goddamned tarp. Most of one, anyway. And its nasty and muddy and rotting. and it had dead pumpkin on it. And it smells like it was pulled out of a week old corpse's ass. OMG. I have a tummy of iron, I really do, but I about threw up 4 or 5 times out there. It was hellish. But, I got that out and thrown away.
Then, after surveying my work for about 10 minutes and finding it worthy, I moved into the shed, which, while I did straighten it up big time when I moved in, was still very dirty with sawdust and what not. I swept all the dust and sawdust and leftover grass clippings from the mower up into a nice pile, picked all the staples and nails out, and scooped it all up and dumped it on my newly planted plants. I heard somewhere that sawdust and stuff like that is really good for plants, so.... Oh, and hair clippings are, too, fyi.
In the shed, taking up room for no apparent reason, is an old cabinet. Its a small cabinet, like one that used to house an OLD record player. Looks like it might have been a decent piece of wood at some point, but its more or less a piece of shit now. Theres a hinge door that is missing from one side, likely where a speaker was. Part of the trimming is cracked and falling off. But it doesn't look God-awful, you know? Looks like something youd find in an old shed. Well, I've decided that it is patio furnature now. I have to old-ass wooden chairs out there and now that cabinet is betwixt them. We can set drinks on it when we hang out on the porch, which will inevetably happen when the weather is warmer.
I need a big brown jug with X's on it....
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