If You Fence Your Garden

With a fence around your garden, your dogs can't dig it up.  Your cats can hide there from the puppers.  Your pole beans, tomatoes, and cucumbers have something on which to climb.  The garden tools are less likely to walk away.

With a fence around your garden, it feels like a private getaway.  You can stow yourself in there and cultivate to your heart's content while the butterflies and hummingbirds flit around.

With a fence around your garden, there's some shelter from the wind.  Your life-size Jeremy Renner cardboard cutout can stand in the corner to keep you company with less chance of blowing over.  Your chard leaves might not get whipped to death.

Best of all, with a fence around your garden, you don't have to clean it out in the fall.  You turn a few chickens and goats in there and they do the work for you.  They'll even fertilize it for free.

Hunneypunkin Code

Because Hunneypunkin leaves for work at an unheavenly hour, he often leaves special requests in unspoken messages.

Occasionally I find a stick of his deodorant sitting on the kitchen counter. This is his way of asking me to add that to my shopping list.

If his flannel shirt is laid across my laptop, he's hoping to have a button sewn back on. His cellphone left on top of my phone indicates he'd like to have his plugged in once mine has finished charging.

Once in a while someone suggests that this practice is somehow a signal that he takes me for granted. I don't think so. Because I park the car in front of the shop door to inform him that this vehicle needs some attention. Hey, it works for us.

Last week he put a 'rona mask on my life-size Jeremy Renner cardboard cutout. I still don't know what that means.

Losing Interest in Everything Uninteresting

I'm so bored of apocalypses.

You?

Heard Jeremy Renner is putting out some new music, might check that out.

Weighing In on Ornamental Grasses

Let's set aside all the current world drama and talk about a subject that actually needs to be discussed: ornamental grasses.

What are the rules for ornamental grasses?

• house-height to grass-height ratio
• pairing with evergreens
• minimum/maximum circumference of a single stand of grass
  

Who decides whether a grass is ornamental or...whatever is the alternative to ornamental?

If I find a particular grass unattractive, does that make it non-ornamental?

Are ornamental grasses as low-maintenance as they are touted to be?

Have we collected statistics on how many people understand that low-maintenance doesn't mean no-maintenance?

Do folks who fail to low-maintain their low-maintenance ornamental grasses recognize that said failure results in their ornamental grasses becoming non-ornamental?

If an ornamental grass is planted near an unornamental home, does this upgrade the house or downgrade the grass?

How many ornamental grasses are too many ornamental grasses?

Allow these questions lead you into a deeper examination of the world of ornamental grasses, and next time we'll address other topics of importance such as mandolins, Jeremy Renner, and southern accents.