Oh, that's really nasty to steal someone's digging fork. I have very strong feelings about theft. My ex took my crowbar and I'll never forgive him for that. When I told him, he said, "It's a crowbar!" as if that justified it. GRRR.The rain always gets here a few hours after it hits Glendale wheretarasgirl06 lives so it did not start here until way after midnight but it has been steadily raining ever since, the light soaking-in kind. I'm sure glad I got all that compost into the garden yesterday, the other 6 bags can wait. It's also not as cold as it has been, the extra humidity helps. Although it's almost noon kitties are awake and walking around or lounging wide-eyed wherever they can watch me. Strange.
I have to go to the store for things that can't wait like more cat food and some more litter, also eggs and while I'm out might just as well stop at the nursery (Green Thumb) to see what they have in the way of plants for the garden and a digging fork. Then I'll check my seed supply, I know I've got plenty from last year that will do just fine.
This is an age restricted community so nobody under 50 lives here. But when I went to my garden yesterday I found my digging fork missing, somebody must have just reached across the fence and snagged it. There are plenty of tools available in the community garden shed but I have noticed not a digging fork in sight.So somebody taking mine is really annoying. You'd think that us older folks would be beyond petty theft for something like that, I guess not.
No wonder there is a plan to put an electronic gate on the entrance to the community garden, at least it will keep the general public out and we'll know for certain that it is fellow gardeners who do stuff like that. Or maybe workmen who are employed here. I lost a beach buggy and a flatbed truck out of the underground garage, both of which I used to move stuff too bulky or too heavy to move by hand.
Lest you think this is all negative let me assure it's not. There is hardly a chance for mudslides here, there have been none since this community was established in 1965, the sprinklers don't have to come on (we are short 6 inches of rain!), the waterfowl will be out in droves, there is little traffic because folks don't know how to drive in the rain, the stores will be empty so I can get in and out fast, I'm healthy and so are kitties, I'm not broke as my tax return check paid for a few unexpected bills (car!), so what more can I ask for? Life is pretty good.
But yes, on the PAWSitive side, we do like to be generous with our precip here in SoCali because *drought* *plants* *water is life* and all that.
) I'm sort of like the Peanuts character, Schroeder, I guess, in that I've always been obsessed with Ludwig. I haven't read that book but hope to get the chance.
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