*falls over*

[sholio]

Today was a yardwork day ... putting together the frames for raised garden beds and partially filling them with semi-composted chicken litter (sawdust, mostly). I think I'm ready to go get a pickup truck load of topsoil in the next couple of days -- our yard is gravel tailings (old mine waste) and we have NO dirt except for the odd bit of river

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[mcalex22]

Aaah Supernatural... I wondered if I should add anything since I already find your arguments and comments very rationale and pretty much agree with them

[sholio]

However what ticked me off was when I read that he was no longer a permanent cast member and several comments by the writers alluding to the fact that it was always a show about two brothers and no one else was constant. With the history of this show - ie it being dark, bleak and basically every bad (and good) guy gets killed, I started wondering if they'll eventually kill off Castiel.*nods* Yeah, I saw the discussion of this in your LJ and went looking for the season seven spoilers myself, because I wanted to see exactly what they'd said! And I think this attitude on the part of the show-runners sums up a big part of my problems with the show (not ALL of it, but a lot of it). It's the Winchesters' show, that's pretty obvious, and I don't have a problem with that, but in pursuit of that end, the writers have no problem throwing all the other characters under the bus, and I have a HUGE problem with THAT. There's a difference between "the Winchesters are the main characters" and "the Winchesters are the only characters who matter", and

[leesa_perrie]

Oh cool, food from your own garden!! Hubby plants runner beans every year (much nicer than the shop brought ones), and sometimes plants tomatoes. This year he's going to try growing broccoli and radish!! As for me, I prefer to leave the gardening to him - though I do get a say in the flowers and bushes (and insist that we keep the self-seeded yellow and orange poppies that came over from next door)!

I do, however, spoil the birds a little - and even have a male blackbird who comes to the backdoor every so often and waits for me to throw him some sultanas!! Cheeky so and so, it's not even his territory, he's just an intruder!!!! *bg*

[sholio]

Hee! I need to put my bird feeder out again -- I took it down last summer because we were doing some landscaping and never put it back up again!

I grew up in a gardening household (my mom had a huge garden -- well, we were really poor; we needed it!) but I haven't really tried gardening myself since we bought this house, except for some containers and a halfhearted attempt to put in a strawberry patch that never went anywhere. I'm really enthusiastic about it this summer for some reason, though.

[ravenmoonart]

Ive been lurking here for a while, glutting myself on your fic etc, and was startled and tickled to see that your a FBX girl! *waves at you from a tad further south* Good luck on the garden, container tomatoes are all I'm managing this year, sadly. Thank god for the sunlight...by April I often start to wonder if Ive gone colorblind!

[sholio]

Oh hi! *waves back* I was just in your neck of the woods last week, actually! (And I just went and read your account of the Saturday market windstorm -- um, wow. >_> That sounds exciting and not exactly in a good way!) haha, yeah, re: the colorblindness, the husband and I have a running joke that Alaska makes you way too attuned to very, very subtle shades of green and brown ...

[ravenmoonart]

Oh yes...MUD is really attractive to me in March and April: "Oooooh, look! Broooown!"

I'll be coming up your way for Tanana Fair pretty soon, so please plead with your local weather spirits to hold OFF on the damn rain, wont you? Ditto on the wildfires. Yeah, I know, good luck with that. I love the Interior, but I've lived through weather at your fair that make my last week's windstorm seem gentle. Its the only place I've ever suffered hypothermia, sunstroke and smoke inhalation all on the same day.

[sholio]

You should shoot me a PM when you're in town; we should have coffee or something. :)

Unfortunately we seem to get either rainy summers, or smoky summers. Or rainy AND smoky, the worst of all possible worlds. *crosses fingers hopefully for a decent summer this time*

[black_raven135]

Gardening?? It cannot make up is mind around here.
We had one day with intense sunshine and temp was 75. This week in the mid
50s and rain.......
I am just not sure I want to do any planting till it makes up its mind.
Last year it did not get its act together till July 4.........

[sholio]

Oh my! That's some unseasonable weather, even by Alaska standards. *g*

Here's hoping that the weather clears up and you get some nice summer weather eventually!