My mother found these buttons in her sewing room, they've been there since the 70s, I'm sure. Oddly, or maybe not, they have turned into the driving force behind this build.
This build is going to be for the kid in me.
Nancy: U is for undulation.
The kit arrived Thursday. It's roomier than I thought it would be. The dimensions are listed on the website, but I've got to see them with mine own eyes.
With the kit in dry fit I rearranged furniture until I came up with a plan that sparked my interest. Then my daughter came over and rearranged furniture until she came up with a plan that sparked my interest. Damn. Two plans. Equally interesting.
This morning I took both plans to the home of my wisest advisors. My dad liked both plans equally. My mom made observations I hadn't considered. My plan was revised. I now have a course of action.
This is my daughter's plan. It's good. If you want to use it feel free, she'd be delighted.
I will finish wiring the posts to the fence when the garden is complete, for now I need it removable.
There are real onion skins on the onions, not that you can tell, it's so subtle that it was a waste of effort.
There is not much of an update, I've been down with THE flu the last couple of weeks. I'm feeling much better, though not quite myself yet.
I planted a corner of muskmelons. The melons have been floating around my studio for a couple of years, I picked them up off the sidewalk at work, they fall off the oak trees in the spring...I assume they are baby acorns. I used a seed packet Brae gave me as a label, I cut a slit in the bottom to insert a toothpick.
I then went on a frenzied search for the plant stakes Kat sent me. It took me a week to find them. I want to make plants to match the labels, so didn't want to progress without them...not that anyone will be able to read the labels since the font is so small, but I don't feel good and lack direction, and the stakes give me direction.
Sunflowers. Okay, I've got a Bonnie Lavish kit for those that someone, don't remember who, gave me. Maybe I pulled it out of a share box that was circulating a few years ago.
Ha! This is why I stopped planting sunflowers in my real garden, they turn their faces to the neighbor. Really though, this angle is looking from the back side of the garden, the sunflowers are facing forward. I wanted to see the stake in this picture, which makes me think that I should save them for potted plants set at the front of projects, so the stakes can be read, or perhaps for the waiting-to-be-built half-scale bungalow.
(The tall plastic plants in the bottom right corner....Kat gave me those too.)
While I think about stakes and plants I'll busy myself with the rest of the fence, which I'm making from some metal trim stuff that Susan gave me. I cut some posts from dowel this morning, dipped them in weathering stuff, and will see how they look tonight.
I keep saying "gave me, gave me, gave me"....this is turning into quite a community garden, so to speak. So far Elizabeth, Kat, Brae, Jodi, and Susan have contributed. I enjoy being part of our little community.
Ester says "enough with the camera already" "Hi!".