Gardening 2024

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Shit, it's now looking like I may go over budget by $10.     That's not a lot but it's "one small point of pride" that I come in under budget.  This year I wanted to get as close as I could without going over since they cut my budget by a third.  I still have about $218 in play.  Phebe's hitting a black Friday sale.  Kevin's saying no more than $85 and I bet Ken will forget his $60 or turn in the bill too late to make this year's budget although I'm going to remind him.  We'll see.  Nobody gives a fuck but me.   

Talked to Deana.  She's going to call the grant people next week.  University to University.  I'm not so much concerned about the Herb Garden getting funding.  I want to know what that grant is all about.  Our vegetable beds are looking like shit.  I'm calling for a full renovation of the area.  And I want to do it next fall.  It's going to cost.  Fucking chicken wire.  We're just going to put a fence around the whole garden and we won't have to mess with that stuff again.  We're going to replace the landscape timbers that rot out every 4 years or so with the metal beds.  Get them some storage and some place I can sit my ass down when I'm weighing out all the produce.  Phebe's been out deer hunting so she hasn't thought about it yet.  It's okay I haven't moved it onto a burner yet just getting it ready to go.

Produce donations came in over 3000 pounds.  Phebe is pretty proud.  That's our number.  Hopefully next year we are going to start adding fruit to that number.  Apples and pears weigh a lot.  You did good Marsha.

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I couldn't just let it die.     It only cost $2 to get another coleus in the spring.  Not sure it will get enough sun in that eastern window but that's all I got.  The geranium and begonias will bloom all winter.  Outdoor plants can't go in the grow room.  They have cooties.

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The rosemary popped up!  

So Deana did contact the grant people.  They responded they needed our supply list.  Okay, you have that and Deana didn't understand to tell them we already submitted that.  They thought we were a new application.  But it sounds like they are ready to go shopping for us.  Cool but the list Jill gave me was her shopping list with estimated cost.  Her shopping list was missing the exact thing on a few items such as she wrote PVC pipe.  What size and how many feet?  Stuff like that.  I'm trying to get that from them asap.  I'm still wondering how the grant people gets all this stuff to me and when.  If it's coming soon, it's going to have to be stored in my garage.     I think we have the grant if we can get some understanding going on here.