As I was perusing my computer files, I found some DIY project footage I never finished putting together. If you’ve met me, you’d know that I’m just kinda more like “let’s see how this goes,” than like “let’s plan this out thoughtfully and logically.” I also from time to time set up a camera before I “see how this goes,” in order to document how it goes. Last time, it involved taking down a Christmas tree [How to Take Down a Christmas Tree (Video)].
Rewind to February. This time… it was a garden. I had seen a post on Pinterest that looked super cute and easy to make.
So I tricked my sister into coming to Home Depot with me (“I’ll buy you an ice cream cone?”), and got to work. A little taste of our trip to the store:
“Can I help you?”
“Yes, please. We need wood.”
“What kind of wood?”
“I don’t really know.”
You can imagine how the rest went. We were thankful for patient employees, and the fact that the store wasn’t closing anytime soon, because we definitely over-stayed our welcome.
I started the garden on my own. When it came time to paint, and lift heavy bags of soil, I took a break for a bit. Thankfully, around this time, Gingey entered my life. Upon his insistence on a Sunday afternoon, we spent our fifth or sixth date at Home Depot, followed by a few hours in my side-yard, finishing up the garden by painting, lining the bottom, and planting… while listening to Van Morrison and drinking a few Bud heavy’s, of course.
As much fun as we had that day, testing our teamwork skills, and revealing some of my weaknesses [ie. things that involve coordination and a brain], if the fate of the garden was any sort of indication of the fate of our relationship, we should have been broken up a long time ago. I’m not the best at keeping things alive… And when I got a puppy, I decided if I was going to choose one thing to put my effort into keeping alive, it would be the animal. Unfortunately, after a few delicious tomatoes, and a cauliflower and broccoli plant that looked like they were beginning to bud, the cute little garden went to shit (excuse my French).
Cheers to “seeing how it goes,” … garden style:
Hopefully my next project will have a better long-term outcome.
Tata for now, munchkins.
xoxo Gossip Girl
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