What did you do in the garden today?

[Elyrian1]

Gee Jerry, you don't make the cabin locale seem like a very inviting place!


A rock like that is good for when you are using the string trimmer and need to bump the line out


PLANTED? In the GROUND? I let DD1 decide we should get a mint plant a few years ago. Dang thing has every intention of taking over the world.



Now you gotta deal with it.


Do you live in Colorado? I've read there are some weird water laws there. Someone can own the water rights to someone else's property (from decades back). Not only can you not collect water that falls on the ground, you can't collect what hits the roof. Very bizarre.

Colorado's water laws updated a couple years ago. Now you can have a barrel worth, I think, depending on where you live. And adjudicated water rights are screwed up. The developments keep seizing more and more of the supply and the ranchers and farmers near Denver are being slowly driven out.

 

[igorsMistress]

Gee Jerry, you don't make the cabin locale seem like a very inviting place!


A rock like that is good for when you are using the string trimmer and need to bump the line out


PLANTED? In the GROUND? I let DD1 decide we should get a mint plant a few years ago. Dang thing has every intention of taking over the world.



Now you gotta deal with it.


Do you live in Colorado? I've read there are some weird water laws there. Someone can own the water rights to someone else's property (from decades back). Not only can you not collect water that falls on the ground, you can't collect what hits the roof. Very bizarre.

No, Arizona. My community encourages the inhabitants to capture the water from our outdoor structures, something I was quite pleased to learn. My plan was to get that done fore the end of this year, but I think I’m going to talk about it again with hubs now.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Only Came to be about 2 years ago Day of emancipation
of all people of colour.
Hey Gardeners we are all sick here creeping crud. Son brought it home covid test said no !

 

[igorsMistress]

Its a new one. They made it a federal Holiday last year. Messed up a LOT of buildings with automatic door locks. Those systems had only been programed with so many holiday slots, so adding a new one put them over the limit and had to be replaced/reprogramed.

I don’t pay much attention to the news beyond the first few stories and the weather so I wasn’t aware. That’s kinda funny about the door locks, not in a mean way. Technology can be wonderful, but it can also suck.

 

[WthrLady]

Oh, I had no idea.

This is the first year it's been marked as a federal/state/bank holiday (I THINK).

 

[igorsMistress]

Only Came to be about 2 years ago Day of emancipation
of all people of colour.
Hey Gardeners we are all sick here creeping crud. Son brought it home covid test said no !

Glad it’s not Covid Penny! You guys take care, I heard the creeping crud is rough this year.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Sure seems to be !

 

[TJAnonymous]

Colorado's water laws updated a couple years ago. Now you can have a barrel worth, I think, depending on where you live. And adjudicated water rights are screwed up. The developments keep seizing more and more of the supply and the ranchers and farmers near Denver are being slowly driven out.

I know the situation around the Colorado River is really complicated with no easy solution but the damage being done downstream into Mexico is enough to make a person livid. It's irresponsible and unethical IMHO.

 

[TJAnonymous]

It's so miserable outside that I've dedicated myself to indoor chores today. At least until sundown. I repotted my aloe plants and am making up new pots to seed some nasturtiums since the bad mulch has killed all of them in the garden.

I've also been working on the fireplace trim. We put in a new wood burning fireplace last December and still haven't completely finished it... It's about 95% done but we have to get the mantel up and then finish up the rock veneer around the top under the mantel. The mantel is an incredibly beautiful 3" thick slab of walnut. I'm TERRIFIED we are going to mess it up trying to hang it....

 

[WthrLady]

It's not just the Colorado River. There have been so many people moving to the front range of Colorado in the past 15 years and using not only normal amounts of water, but INSANE amounts of water, coupled with drought years, that the watering coming out of Colorado to the Platte river into Nebraska is dwindling. This is effecting water availability to wells and irrigation that farmers rely on to keep crops alive. Luckily the water rights are protected under a 99 year agreement with Colorado, but they keep letting people build and expand anyway. Now Colorado is angry that Nebraska is holding them to the contract.