Gardening in a Kilt (Buzz Kidder Canvas)

[Bugbear]

My pork and rice meal is done now. I have several pork chops in that package, so I didn't put any citrus peals in the dish for the furst round in the experiment. I also was able to dig that trench or rather break up the ground to work some compost down in there. I need to finnish rearanging the things in my little cottage today, as well. It's bad for me to have things stacked up in the middle of the kitchen.

[Bugbear]

For the pork, red chili powder or something like that would be a nice start. I think the citrus peal can be worked into the dish, but I'll have to try it before I know.

I'm still trying to figure out where to put the stuff in the middle of the kitchen. That desk kind of is shaped like a small upright piano, and i need to fit it against a wall. The only place it can go is taken up by an old torn up chair. The chair is more for the cats to scratch on than anything else, so I might put it in the bedroom for them to scratch on instead of everything else they can get at in the bedroom.
I see the hose thread goes on... It's pretty clear to me where my place is, so that's good. Alan did start a new thread kind of about String's hose, and I posted in that one, but not about hose. I have my own hose thread on gardening hose, but I'm holding off on posting there until I come up with pictures of my extra casual, and garden outfit. I'll try to get them posted in here if that ever happens.

Just remembered that I need to find somewhere to put those grape vine cuttings. I'm trying to get everything into growing beds and out of containers. It's a lot easier to keep everything watered in the summer, but one summer I kept a whole bunch of small trees in one gallon containers and smaller alive through the whole summer. That was much too much to deal with because I had to hand water each of them with a watering jug.

[Bugbear]

I guess I'm also posting on hose over in my "Bunny Sporran" thread where I am covering putting together an outfit of Weathered Lamont kilt, brown corduroy jacket and vest conversion, brown hose, matching tweed driving cap and shoes, and brown wool tie. You've all seen the picture:
And I'm looking into getting the brown Lewis Kilt Hose. They sound like nice woolly lamb leg hose. "Snuff" colored hose were also suggested, but I don't know what color that is. I can't find that term used with kilt hose anywhere.

Picture is now in gallery.

[BoldHighlander]

"Snuff" colored hose were also suggested, but I don't know what color that is. I can't find that term used with kilt hose anywhere.

Ted, are you refering to the "Bison" colored Lewis hose?
This is a tan-oatmeal color (some might call it a grayish-brown).

I think black garters would compliment both these & the brown hose, and go well with your weathered Lamont.

[Bugbear]

Thanks BoldHighlander, I wasn't seeing "snuff" colored hose anywhere, so I thought I would bring it up in my other threads. I think that answers the questions I had.

Just for the sake of this thread, That outfit with the Weathered Half Lamont is an example of what one would NOT want to garden in.

[Bugbear]

I did see a thread on kilted casual dress with hiking boots and how to wear the hose... That's a lot like what I do with my kakhi BK when I go shopping and what have you. I was happy to see one of the "snobs," his word not mine, talking about scrunchy hose going with hiking boots. I do both kind of depending on the weather a little, but also to put together a look. Sometimes you're just feeling scrunchy. For this though I do prefer to go with the gray knee high socks that I've talked about. They have that red band at the very top for a nice splash of color. They also have a good three inches of cable patern at the top. To go with all that, I have a gray driving cap. I hope to find the same kind of socks with a blue band around the top because a lot of my shirts have both blue and gray in them. I guess I could find something red like a pin to put on the hat to go with the red stripe on the socks. I've used cream hose scrunched down and still turned over at the top, also That would be with black hiking boots. If I went with my black dress boots, I would wear cream hose pulled up. Also, probably with the Weathered Lamont flashes sticking a little out of the hose tops because the ends are that same kakhi color with a black stripe and go well with the bk.

Oh, and I would wear the zebra pin with all of that... I should get a small red ribbon or something to pin on that hat...

Well, I guess I'll go start on the pork and rice dish for today. It's raining again, so I'm going to use this time to do some laundry so the wash water will add to the building ground saturation. In other words, it's going to be getting wet out there anyway, so let the gray water flow.

[Bugbear]

There, I got a load of laundry going, and the rice dish is sitting there resting after the simmering and so on. I put the drain hose for the washing machine water out on one of the growing beds with figs in it. I have a fifty gallon surge berrel for the washer to empty it's water in, and that has a bushing at the bottum for the 3/4 hose end to go on. I guess you might call that a hose bib, but there's no valve, just 1/2 opening into the 1/2 hose... Valves don't get along with gray water so well. I prefer to use at least 3/4 hoses and tubing with gray water, but you have to use what you have. I should copy this post over into my "Best Hose for Gardening" thread.

I have hung the load of laundry to dry on the fold out laundry rack thing that I have set up in the bedroom. The pork goes well with the zest of the citrus peal. It isn't bad with the rest of the peal, and I'm used to eating that at this point, but it doesn't add too much to the flavor of the dish. I think a pork chop rubbed with orange zest would be pretty good.

I see they have a thread going on the correct placement of the flashes. I'm glad they have that sense I didn't really know I was putting them in the wrong place until I got those pictures posted and people told me. I'll keep an eye on that thread...

Those STM garter ties have fringed ends from what I read. That sounds... neat. In my mind I am seeing that as frenged like the ends of a scarfe, and I kind of like that idea: like little scarves...

I still haven't finnished rearanging my little cottage.

[Bugbear]

Ok, I got the computer desk that I will be using for extra counter space moved into place after cleaning it up. Like i said, it is shaped like an upright piano, and it also has a drawer and a pull out surface. I guess you would put a keyboard on the pullout surface, but that has another pull out surface , I guess for a mouse, that slides out from under the pull out. That should come in handy if I need extra space to work on.There is space under the whole thing which I could put something; that would be where the chair would be if you were sitting at it. I still need to find places in my wee cottage to put those plastic boxes and the cat's scratching chair.

The rooster theme tea set Mrs. Marmalade gave me for Christmas should fit on the little shelf on the new counter. I have a rooster theme dish set, as well as, rooster hand towels in my kitchen. All kinds of rooster decorations. A lot of the furniture in my cottage is salvaged or scavenged, but it does the job.

[Bugbear]

I need to build or devise a box to go around one of the windows in my bedroom for the cats to lay on and look out. It would need to be a mostly closed off box because the windows let too much heat in or out and I have a big square of foam as a plug to go in them right now... The cats love to dig their claws into that foam and they also want to get at the window. Guess that will need to be a project to work on next.

[Bugbear]

Thinking about that cat window, it might work to put shelves attached to the wall above and below the window, then put a pannal or something between the shelves to cover the window area.

One end of each shelf needs to stopp at the edge of the windo because there is an airconditioner built into the wall right next to it. That end could be closed off with a vertical board.

On the other side of the window, the bottom shelf could extend out passed the window a ways, and the top could end at the edge of the window. This would allow the cats to sit on the shelf above the window, inside the window box, or on the extension of the bottom shelf. That would leave one open end to the window box, and I could put a curtain or flap there for the cats to enter and leave the box while keeping it closed off for the most part. That just leaves coming up with the materieals to doo all that with. I'll look around.

Oh boy... It's started up again out there. Somebody went and started a thread on casual dress with a kilt and it all flooded in from the hose thread. Right now, there's a flogging going on for one poster. I'm not going to post in that one. Part of the problem is that someone brought up wearing a t-shirt with a kilt. I wear t-shirts with my BK, but not with my tartan kilts, and it's just the way I go. I wear dress sandals or slides I guess they might be called with my tartan though, and that would be with a nice open collar shirt... Kind of like I might with dress shorts and so on, but that might be more acceptable out here. Usually I try to keep things looking nice with all my clothing I wear. Out in the garden, that is where I wear the messy stuff. I figure that the people posting in those threads about formal and casual need each other to keep from self-imploding. I don't belong there as much as I would like to chat; there's just more going on there than it would seem.

I am going to eat my rice and pork meal in a bit here, but I don't feel like experimenting with the dish anymore. I also started another load of laundry which is watering a different growing bed.

Not a bad meal... I noticed that I need to do a little more cleaning on that table I am using for counter space, but it seems to work where it is.