{"id":387,"date":"2010-03-31T20:10:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T03:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=387"},"modified":"2010-03-31T20:10:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T03:10:57","slug":"the-garden-of-good-intentions-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"The Garden of Good Intentions, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a day off today.  This wasn&#8217;t a day when I didn&#8217;t go to the office because I had meetings elsewhere.  I just didn&#8217;t go.  I didn&#8217;t grade.  I didn&#8217;t do any part of my job.  I took an actual day off.  For landscaping.  There were landscapers about ready to scape, and I had no plants to put into my land.  You can&#8217;t just blow off landscapers.  They might not ever come back.<\/p>\n<p>I sent a message to work that I was taking a personal day, and I went to Home Depot.  I thought I would go pick up a few plants and then sit on the patio watching the process unfold.  Maybe I&#8217;d grade and feel a little perturbed about doing that on a day off.<\/p>\n<p>Wrong.  I didn&#8217;t grade.  I didn&#8217;t sit.  I went to Home Depot five times.  They love me now.  We&#8217;re best friends.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how I managed to feel so tired when other people were doing the work, and we didn&#8217;t even finish, but there you have it.  Landscaping is exhausting.<\/p>\n<p>But I now have a little scape.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4480129487\/\" title=\"IMG_3906 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2723\/4480129487_ec3e0c54d5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_3906\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mulch hasn&#8217;t gone in yet, and the plants need to grow a little, but it really looks very nice from the road, or at least much nicer than it did before.<\/p>\n<p>My raised beds in the back are also closer to being ready for plants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4480133017\/\" title=\"IMG_3911 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4064\/4480133017_333607b456.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_3911\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second one is especially more advanced considering it was not completely assembled yet as of my last report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4480136323\/\" title=\"IMG_3912 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4061\/4480136323_8fa171a9c5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_3912\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also have some potential fruit started.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4480131399\/\" title=\"IMG_3909 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4013\/4480131399_5e65848cbe.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_3909\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple of peach trees, a couple of blueberry bushes.<\/p>\n<p>A blackberry trellis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4480134941\/\" title=\"IMG_3913 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2723\/4480134941_cab9fc24c9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_3913\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s right.  A blackberry trellis.  The landscapers laughed at that too.  I did in fact put a flimsy trellis up in my yard for the purpose of growing blackberries.  I bought blackberry vines at Home Depot.<\/p>\n<p>We got it all put together.  I stood back smiling.  Then I turned my head to look at my neighbor&#8217;s debris pile a few feet away from my blackberry trellis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4480138447\/\" title=\"IMG_3915 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2718\/4480138447_93399d232a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_3915\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder what that is growing all over his pile of dead limbs, and I wonder where he bought the vines.<\/p>\n<p>And that, friends, is everything I and the people doing the work for me accomplished today.  It seemed like a lot at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a day off today. 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