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dragonlady7Following a lovely birthday dinner for just the two of us at Byblos in Getzville, we came home and have spent the entire evening discussing gardening. Z is, meanwhile, reading the Boxed Set of Everything Bill Watterson Has Ever Done, which was his birthday gift from his mother. The thing is, we've both read all the Calvin and Hobbes comics so often (repeatedly since we were too young to understand them-- I distinctly remember asking my mother what "infanticide" meant) that we've pretty much got them all memorized. So all he has to do is read a line of it to me and I can recite him the punchline.
Which is more fun than you'd think.
We've decided we do want to add some sort of raised bed to the front yard over where the sewer was dug up, but we're having differences of opinion on precisely how it should work. Z being the one who mows the lawn (lest you scream sexism, I want it known that when I was a child, my father never mowed the lawn; that was woman's work, because he was busy rototilling the garden or fixing the roof, which was emphatically man's work because my mother is afraid of heights and also fell off a ladder when I was a child and consequently will not fix the roof anymore-- so she mows the lawn), he is thoroughly opposed to any plan that leaves awkward little bits of grass. But I think it would be rather silly to run the new bit of garden right up against the neighbors' driveway-- it seems discourteous to not leave them any wiggle room. Everyone in our neighborhood runs off the edge of their driveway a bit now and then, and I'd hate to put something there that they'd feel bad for running over. We run over the edge of our neighbors' lawn from time to time, sometimes quite badly, and I don't want to impose a limitation on my own neighbors that I couldn't abide by myself.
"Well," Z said, "Let's plant something there that it wouldn't be a big deal if they ran over." His suggestion was basil, but basil is rather tall and kind of, I dunno, leafy. I don't think it would withstand car traffic, nor would it look properly boundary-ish. I'm not sure. It's listed in the gardening encyclopedia my mom lent me as a suitable edging plant, but...
I dunno.
So, I need a good suggestion for an edging plant.
Meanwhile, I had something I was going to blog. There was a reason for this post. Dammit, now I can't remember.
There is more to my life than plants. Er, not even plants, planning plants. There is, I promise, I just can't think of what it was.
Oh yes! I've put in for vacation on Feb 6th-12th. I'm just still deciding whether we ought to drive or fly to Georgia during that time. I dunno: it's about 20 hours. Whatchoo think?
Oh, now I remember what prompted me to post in the first place:
For some reason, all animated .gifs are showing up as being completely still in my web browser. Weird, eh? My whole friendspage is oddly static. Unless y'all have gone out and changed your icons to be static, just to mess with my head.... I wouldn't put that past you: you're a devious lot.
Which is more fun than you'd think.
We've decided we do want to add some sort of raised bed to the front yard over where the sewer was dug up, but we're having differences of opinion on precisely how it should work. Z being the one who mows the lawn (lest you scream sexism, I want it known that when I was a child, my father never mowed the lawn; that was woman's work, because he was busy rototilling the garden or fixing the roof, which was emphatically man's work because my mother is afraid of heights and also fell off a ladder when I was a child and consequently will not fix the roof anymore-- so she mows the lawn), he is thoroughly opposed to any plan that leaves awkward little bits of grass. But I think it would be rather silly to run the new bit of garden right up against the neighbors' driveway-- it seems discourteous to not leave them any wiggle room. Everyone in our neighborhood runs off the edge of their driveway a bit now and then, and I'd hate to put something there that they'd feel bad for running over. We run over the edge of our neighbors' lawn from time to time, sometimes quite badly, and I don't want to impose a limitation on my own neighbors that I couldn't abide by myself.
"Well," Z said, "Let's plant something there that it wouldn't be a big deal if they ran over." His suggestion was basil, but basil is rather tall and kind of, I dunno, leafy. I don't think it would withstand car traffic, nor would it look properly boundary-ish. I'm not sure. It's listed in the gardening encyclopedia my mom lent me as a suitable edging plant, but...
I dunno.
So, I need a good suggestion for an edging plant.
Meanwhile, I had something I was going to blog. There was a reason for this post. Dammit, now I can't remember.
There is more to my life than plants. Er, not even plants, planning plants. There is, I promise, I just can't think of what it was.
Oh yes! I've put in for vacation on Feb 6th-12th. I'm just still deciding whether we ought to drive or fly to Georgia during that time. I dunno: it's about 20 hours. Whatchoo think?
Oh, now I remember what prompted me to post in the first place:
For some reason, all animated .gifs are showing up as being completely still in my web browser. Weird, eh? My whole friendspage is oddly static. Unless y'all have gone out and changed your icons to be static, just to mess with my head.... I wouldn't put that past you: you're a devious lot.
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Date: 2006-01-05 06:14 am (UTC)I don't think there's any plant that would be cool with being run over.
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Date: 2006-01-05 12:49 pm (UTC)Weirdly, the icon for this post was animated in the "update journal" page, but once I updated it and was looking at my friendspage, it was static again.
This is rather annoying, actually, as most people's animated icons are actually pretty funny. Hm. :/
> cool with being run over
Sure there is. Grass deals pretty well with it because it's springy. I just need something else springy.
Sadly, I can't think of anything. Looking out the window at the yard, I am absolutely positive that it would look totally retarded to run the garden right up against the driveway. Nobody does that. But Z is immovable on this: it'll look dumb, he says, to have a grass boundary. Saying 'no it won't' doesn't get us anywhere. I really think he's wrong, though.
And if i want to put a border of, say, paving stones or something around the bed, which I am planning to have be raised somewhat, then if the neighbors deviate from their driveway by an inch we've got cracked stones and a nasty bump for them. I really think Z's wrong with this. Maybe we should just put down some mulch along the edge.
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Date: 2006-01-05 05:01 pm (UTC)