In a moment of madness, I logged into my diary and actually opened the customizer and glanced around thinking that I might do some re-decorating of my diary.
Luckily the moment passed and I high tailed it out of there before embarking on something I might regret.
I love Dear Diary.... honestly, I think it's the best blogging site on the net, but that customizer. . . Wow.
It is true that you can tweak the look of your diary till the cows come home, which is more than you can say for many other sites, but that same tweaking has taken up whole DAYS in the past and I just don't feel up to the task right now.
Maybe on the first real rainy day, I'll give it a go.
Today I grappled with a different chore that has been bugging me for most of the summer. I raked and cleared and generally made civilized the 'lost' area next to our house. It was full of tall gone to seed weeds and gravel and loose rocks and old stucco blobs, plus odd pieces of wood and a derelict wheelbarrow. I didn't take a before picture, it was just too embarrassing to reveal. But here it is now:
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Now it is clean and well. . . barren. I prefer barren to junky. If it wasn't for a buried drain line, I would happily plant all kinds of things in that space, but I worry that the roots will interfere.
But after seeing how nicely dichondra can do if given a little encouragement, I am thinking that in the spring, after I kill off the emerging weeds, [of which there will be legion] I might pop a few plants in and see what happens. There will be no traffic to speak of and I could put some stepping stones down there to walk on. And I might find some other ground cover type things to put in there too.
But one thing for sure, I'm not letting the weeds have it ever again.
Luckily the moment passed and I high tailed it out of there before embarking on something I might regret.
I love Dear Diary.... honestly, I think it's the best blogging site on the net, but that customizer. . . Wow.
It is true that you can tweak the look of your diary till the cows come home, which is more than you can say for many other sites, but that same tweaking has taken up whole DAYS in the past and I just don't feel up to the task right now.
Maybe on the first real rainy day, I'll give it a go.
Today I grappled with a different chore that has been bugging me for most of the summer. I raked and cleared and generally made civilized the 'lost' area next to our house. It was full of tall gone to seed weeds and gravel and loose rocks and old stucco blobs, plus odd pieces of wood and a derelict wheelbarrow. I didn't take a before picture, it was just too embarrassing to reveal. But here it is now:
[album 65561 Alley2.JPG]
Now it is clean and well. . . barren. I prefer barren to junky. If it wasn't for a buried drain line, I would happily plant all kinds of things in that space, but I worry that the roots will interfere.
But after seeing how nicely dichondra can do if given a little encouragement, I am thinking that in the spring, after I kill off the emerging weeds, [of which there will be legion] I might pop a few plants in and see what happens. There will be no traffic to speak of and I could put some stepping stones down there to walk on. And I might find some other ground cover type things to put in there too.
But one thing for sure, I'm not letting the weeds have it ever again.