I forgot to say earlier, much job~ma, Hec. I hope you can get out of the work suckage and into a better position soon.

Aww, Gris, that's too bad.

I'm already perplexed as to where the compost bin is going to go now. I've got a great edible landscaping thing in progress, but I didn't take the compost bin in consideration when I did it so now I don't know where to put it where it isn't stinky/unsightly.

Is there a place where you can set up a worm bin? I had (still have, but it's mothballed) one in my basement. They're not stinky, can be compact and tucked into corners, and are quite quick with the composting. (If you remember to add compost, and your worms don't starve, that is. In my defense, I was eating out an awful lot.)

Signed,

My First Blog Was a Garden Blog, Before the Apathy Monsters Attacked.

The boy's not the only one who went non-verbal. Wowza.

This. Helloo, scorchy goodnesses. Ah, verbal came back, just in time.

I spent half the day today hanging out with another group of people brought together over the internet by a specific interest, AIwFG. No rubber gloves on heads or anything, this was a bunch of ex-pat scots soccer fans, ranging in age from 20-60, and it was a really good time. Bless the internets, I say, every one of them.

...a sad, sad Bitch...

I just tried on the gorgeous corset that I bought last spring in SF at Dark Garden (the one in these pictures). I think I need to come to terms with the fact that it is too long for my torso. I am very short-waisted, and though it looks good on the surface, it rubs up far too high under my shoulders and irritates the hell out of me. I've only worn it once--that first night I bought it--and now I'm having to face that I may need to ebay the damned thing. I saved for SIX MONTHS to buy it! DAMN.

signed, really unhappy Bitch

This might cheer you up, Kristin. (Though I brought it here for Jilli.)

On You Tube, Placebo and David Bowie performing "20th Century Boy" live at the Brit Awards in '99.

Dunno about Jilli or kristin, but it cheered me up a little.

My First Blog Was a Garden Blog, Before the Apathy Monsters Attacked

Hee. I've thought about starting a garden blog "The Gimpy Gardener". I tried but only made a post or two before rain and landscaping changed the..er..landscape.

I've never had a worm bin. Didn't need to because I had a compost bin. Since I'm going to have to find 4 housemates and might not be able to be choosy about their crunchiness, it's better for me to have an outside bin than an inside one. Even if it doesn't smell, I need to take up as little of the common space as I can. I've already put most of my CDs in albums (still need to de-jewel-box a box or two). My LPs and books are going to be a problem, though. The mortgage is high enough that what I have to ask for the rooms is on the high side for this neighborhood (many of the houseshares around here are in houses that were bought 15 - 20 years ago and have much lower mortgages). I'm trying to do everything I can to make the house as attractive as possible without making it unattractive to me.

I sat out and pulled a few more weeds today. Gosh, it feels nice to be out in the garden. I haven't been able to do it in a while. I'm terrible at meditating. My mind chatters incessantly at me. But when I'm gardening, I'm much more able to *be* in the moment. Plus it's fascinating to see how much can change in the yard just overnight. Man, I wish I had the wherewithal to get a degree in horticulture.

Plei, is your garden blog still up?

Jilli can have this one too. A Drusilla vid set to "Vampire Heart" by H.I.M.

Plei, is your garden blog still up?

Nope, sadly.

My friends have an outside worm bin, and it works well for them. I don't know how it's set up, though, and they're out of the country right about now, so I can't ask.

Well, the stench isn't quite so much the issue (in my opinion, anyway) with the regular compost. It's the amount of space it takes up and what it looks like. My mom co-owns this house with me and she's prissy about stuff like that. And if one of the prospective renters is prissy as well, that just tips it in her favor. I'm sure I'll find a place to make it fit but I have to see how the landscaping all pans out.

The house came with 4 large raised beds. It's a long rectangular yard plot. Tons of neighbors can see into the backyard so I wanted to get a privacy screen in. But I wanted it to be edible so we've planted feijoa, lemons, grapefruit, oranges and other standard size citrus and one short avocado. It'll be quite some time before that all fills in. I've got deciduous fruit trees three or four to a hole (pears, apples, plums, peaches and one almond), lingonberries, currants, cane berries (which will be in one of the raised beds to prevent spread), strawberries, beach strawberries, and some odd bits here and there. I just have to see where things really end up before I site the compost.