Gardening in a Kilt (Buzz Kidder Canvas)

[Retro Red]

Just wonderin', Ted...

You say you use a Buzz Kidder Canvas for your garden kilt, whatcha usin' for your garden hose?

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[Bugbear]

Hey Retro Red, see this thread of mine at the link for allllll the answers to that question.

Best Hose For Gardening in a Kilt

It's also in this thread to, but you got to read between the... rows.

[Bugbear]

I finnished working on the bottom of that trench. What I've got out there is a raised bed about four feet across and... about ten to fifteen feet long. I had a sheet compost heep going on in that for a couple years. The borders are mounded dirt about six inches high and on top of those are the 16/8 blocks. The dirt mounds or berms slope out away from the bed. Along the lingth of that I hav dug an eight inch deep trench, and the dirt from that is sitting beside it kind of in a berm. So there is a berm the trench then the loosely piled berm. I've filled the trinch with organics which will shrink down quite a bit over the next few days as they dry out.

I was looking at this and decided to change the plan. I was going to pull the dirt back over the organic in a few days, but I am now going to put a bunch of the compost from the top of the raised bed in the space between the berms and let it sit. I can then use the raised bed to plant stuf. All of this is on one side of my backyard. the trench is on the side of the bed toward the middle of the yard, so I will next spring, if I still live here, plant a rosemary hedge where the trench is.

And that is part of integrated pest management 101...

On the other hand, I checked at USAK, and they have fairly good sounding charcoal colored hose for about twenty dollars. I think I will get some for my Nightstalker kilt. They would probably go with my kakhi BK too. If I'm also thinking about going for a Gray Granite USAK at some point, so I'm still thinking over all this stuff. I have already decided to get the brown Lewis hose from STM to go with my Weathered Half Lamont.

[Bugbear]

Has this thread become a monument to my daily life in the garden? And years from now it will be read? I don't know...

[Bugbear]

Does any of this matter? I guess it is just a footprint spread out all over the world... One foot print among millions or even billions.

[Bugbear]

I see Alan H got the hose String knitted. Sounds very nice.

Someone in the marmite thread took my suggestion and put marmite on their london broil after cooking it. It turned out well from what I read... That's nice too.

[Bugbear]

My allergies aren't quite as bad today. That headache I had yesterday was driving me crazy. I will finnish up with the trench project today, and that will leave a good size planting bed to put things in. It's spring out here, and time to move on all the plants for the summer.

In other threads, I've been looking at the formal dress issues. I think they have decided that a suit and tie isn't formal wear. It isn't casual wear either, but that is as dressy as I go. A converted suit jacket and vest with a tie and my kilt. I'm somewhere in the middle between slob and snob... I'm sticking to the "no mixing of black and brown on a large scale," too.

[Bugbear]

I spoke too soon. The allergies are making it hard to breathe... It kind of takes all my energy away, but I don't have a headache like yesterday. I'm guessing the olive trees are spewing pollin everywhere along with the desert weeds and molds. I think things are ok out there at the trench. I know it's ready in that growing bed next to the trench for planting, and I might try to get some plants in there today... I just needed to sit down for a while. I think I'm getting tired of eating citrus peals in my rice, so the experiment is over. If I had marmite, I would probably put some of that in there...

I asked the question on the black day wear jacket with brown sporran over in another thread... I just wouldn't do it.


And as soon as I started talking about my allergies, I thought of String and her flu and azma and so on, and all the other stuff. It's not that bad just draining when it goes on and on and on for weeks on end, and you see other people full of energy, doing back flips and cartwheels... Leaping over tall buildings, lifting busses with one hand...

[Bugbear]

Here's an update on the cat window. I had decided to use a set of freestanding shelves from my studio to make the cat window and entertainment center, instead of attaching shelves to the wall. I will need to put the shelves on something to make them tall enough to cover the entire window: top to bottom. I didn't know what to do, so I'm planning to move that dresser over there and put the shelves on top of that, or make a box to sit on the top shelf and make up the difference. Now that I think about it, I should probably go with the second option.

I'm sure you were worried about what happened with all that.

Here is the answer to the brown day wear question I asked in that thread.

Black accessories are acceptable for day wear, it is brown that is not considered acceptable for evening wear. With a black Argyle you would use black accessories. This also cuts your costs by not requiring to sets of accessories.

That settles it in my mind, and I will not be wearing brown accessories with black outfits. I'm leaving this quote here in case anyone tells me to wear a brown sporran for day wear in the future, so I can find it.

[Bugbear]

Yep, the Garden Bunny hears some things stirring up out there in the real forum
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I've been working on clearing the side of the room for the cat windo shelvs. There's a small desk over there, and I had to take everything off of it to get it ready to be moved I also cleared out half that raised bed today, and it is ready to go for planting.

I want to build or adapt something that I can hang my kilts in that will keep the dust and stuff off, but also be moveable. One idea I'm working with would be to adapt a large suitcase such that it would have a hanging rod and the kilts could be hung when the case is sitting on end. The other idea would be to build a tubular frame from scrach, and put a fabric covering around it. Either way it would have to be free standing and also movable, so light weight. I could leave my kilts hanging in my closet, but my closet is tiny... It also has the nineteen gallon water heater for the house at one end. Although, the water heater is short enough that the kilts could be hung on that end of the closet...


Garden Bunny told you...

I salvaged this from a post I made in a thread that might be locked down.

"Ok, how about this. I am a summer seasonal skin tone type, and do my best to stick to those colors when choosing all my clothing including my kilts. That would be the browns, blues, pastels, and tans... I also have dark charcoel brown hair with dark auburn highlights, and that goes well with gray and black colors. I try very very hard to not mix black and brown, however, I have found that a little bit of black goes alright with brown. A little bit of brown does not seem to go with a majority of black. There seems to be a lot of brown and black mixing in tartans. I still would not wear a brown belt, sporran, and shoes with a mostly black kilt, and I would avoid the same in black on a mainly brown kilt. Evening wear and day wear rules bother me."

That is now resolved, and I no longer have to worry about mixing brown and black clothing. I will also stick to my seasonal skin tone color chart.

Oh dear, that thread was locked down when I went back and looked. This time I know for sure that it had nothing what so ever to do with me. I had just posted about snicker doodles and peanut butter cookies to answer someone who was replying to me. I had a bad feeling about that thread, and I had salvaged a couple of other of my posts. they're back there a ways, and combine math with cookies...