The workbench.

In my effort to bring to light my serious deficiency in the area of clutter control, I give you the workbench.

This is my center of mass creation. My furniture repurposing, seed planting and toy fixing headquarters. How I manage to get anything done in it is beyond me. But it's getting better since this picture was taken last weekend. It's not clean, but it's getting there. Another of my resolutions was to make a serious effort to wrap up all of my projects so I gave it the once over so that I could at least get to my tools and try to finish the last bit of flooring work that I needed to do. I hope to have this area cleaned up soon so that I can start getting ready for finishing the rest of my todo's.
Any one making good progress toward their resolutions? let me know.
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Garden goings on.

I've just about caught up with the gardening chores. Weeds are pulled, plants pruned and what had ripened while I was gone has been harvested. This is the latest small harvest. The basket has raspberries and yellow pear tomatoes in it, on the right is heirloom rainbow chard, and in front is a head of buttercrunch lettuce. This is most likely the last of the lettuce I will get until fall.

I have a couple of questions for my gardening readers. While I was gone, my pea plants really made quite a showing, but unfortunatly died and dried by the time I returned. I have pulled the dead plants, and have the peas that dried on the vine. My question is this, can these vine dried peas be used for anything, or are they no good? If I can rehydrate and eat them I will, but don't know how they would taste. Any help would be appreciated. The other question is what summer crops are there that are fairly heat tolerant that I can plant for a late summer crop if any? I have a large bit of open bedding now that the peas are out, and I'd like to use it for something besides weeds. Then again, maybe I'll seed it with some of the dandylions that are popping up now for some late summer salad greens? Any suggestions?
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Nasty weather again.

Well, the temps have dropped off the map again, and I'll be damned if it isn't snowing out. I was hoping that the weather would hold another week or so, My pear and cherry blossoms have been open for a while now, but my apple blossoms are just now peaking out, and this is gonna beat them up pretty good I think. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to hope for the best and see what comes of it. Looks like the next couple of days will provide me with a good opportunity to work in the garage, and see if I can make a difference. If I don't do it now, who knows when I'll have the chance.

Full Disclosure

Well Carol ,over at May Dreams Gardens posted a picture of her gloves. I replied that I indeed had many gloves, but could not find any of my right ones. I did offer what I thought a reasonable excuse, my pathetically messy garage. To which she made, I am sure in jest, the remark that "that would be something to see", and could perhaps make everyone else feel good about their own garages. So in the interest of full disclosure. Here it is:

So, now that excuse seems a little more resonanble does't it? I'm going to make it a challenge to myself to make this garage an orderly little workshop, an eden of inspiration to all, well, OK maybe just orderly. If I get my "dirty" laundry out there, I have to clean it up as I see it.

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