Month: April 2007

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Sunshade!

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Remember how I was copying a sunshade from Gulf Wars? Here it is! This was the test run in my driveway on Friday afternoon. Despite the breeze, I still got it up All By Myself.I did this by laying out the corner poles in an X, then laying the canvas on top, which told me where the stakes should go.  So I pounded in all the stakes, which are the cheap modern type that have a prong and an upper nub.  (That part is important later.) Then I pulled up each post halfway, and tied it off using a sailors’ … Continue reading Sunshade!

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Gardening 101

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I’ve been substituting my normal History Channel habit with an online BBC gardening show from GoogleVideo the last few nights.  It’s 8 episodes of "How to Be A Gardener", and although there isn’t much in it I haven’t heard before, what is really helpful is that the whole agricultural process is shown and explained in order, in a logical learning curve. I’m finding the presentation to be very motivating.  I’m also finding that I did a very good thing last fall when I went about stealing all the leaves I could find and piling them into my beds.  This week … Continue reading Gardening 101