Cori is home from Colorado for a few days. I can't exactly say home from college because she is a graduate now! This evening we made a project planning trip to Lowe's in Yukon. Love that store. The only place more dangerous at the moment is Sam's Club.
I need a spiritual advisor to walk the aisles of Sam's with me. Garden greed and lust take over. I'm minding my own business, trying to get in, get the chicken and other graduation barbecue fixin's and get out, when I see the gardening aisle out of the corner of my right eye. They have boxes of my favorite perennial flowers for pretty good prices, just the plant roots, ready to bury in my favorite pot. The beautiful, colorful pictures covering the boxes are irresistible. As if I was seriously attempting resistance. Then, around the corner from the big patio pots, as I turn a corner is the most amazing gardening thing I've ever seen! It's an all-in-one raised bed garden built in a lovely redwood eight foot square with a sweet gate on the front and three lined troughs on three sides all bordered by mesh fencing between redwood frames with a tall redwood and mesh trellis on the back side all fully equipped with a watering system so that you can let yourself in the gate and work all three beds from the space in the middle and the bunnies, deer, gophers and Bermuda grass would never bother your beautiful plants. (pause for breath) All for $670. I stopped to admire and touch it. I dug through my purse for a camera which I didn't find. Then dragged myself away to the meat department.
But, about our trip to Lowe's today. I must say, I get much better service in stores when Cori is with me. We had all kinds of help this evening. One guy practically put all the pieces together for us to make a rain barrel. Then another guy gathered all the hardware to make a 4x4 raised bed, shouldered the two 8' boards and manfully carried them to the register and out the door to the van. Suuuweet.
Now we have stuff for two gardeny projects. I'll let you know how it turns out.
By the way, Cori and I hung out in the plumbing aisle quite a while as nice Lowe's man number one ran around gathering the spigot pieces for the rain barrel. Apparently one can buy a 50 pack of One Hole Midget Straps for fairly cheap.
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3 comments:
You could have filled 50 rain barrels in the past month, with all the rain. Can't wait to see the finished product. I suffer from lust and greed every time I step into a home improvement store. I run my hand seductively over a new stove, flirt with the wood flooring, blush at the endless choices of paint colors. It's hard to just run in and grab nails!
Can't have too many straps for your one-hole midgets.
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