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| New Coffee Table Book |
I was off this past Friday and went to the local book shop to buy some summer reading material. I bought a recent Stephen King novel, the latest by Zadie Smith, a couple of magazines and the above book for the coffee table. I had seen it written up some time ago and always wanted a copy. It's a very clever and humorous book that will appeal to all the OCD people in your life (alphabetically sorted of course).
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| Going to pot. |
CC was away this weekend, up north, dealing with a very tricky client, and because he didn't want me to be bored, he left me with a "To Try" list (that's a passive-aggressive "To Do" list for those who were unaware). I did most of the items on it yesterday morning, but saved the best for last. He wanted me to organize the small and messy potting shed in the garage. Well, that just got my OCD-tendencies going into overdrive, so I dragged all the pots out of the potting shed and the greenhouse, filled up a big container with water, and cleaned the pots then arranged them around the garden to dry, before I sorted them and put them away.
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| Bird's-eye view |
Although I enjoyed myself immensely, it was back-breaking work and took about 5 hours from start to finish! I took lots of water breaks and took lots of photos, from many different angles. I love the colour of the terra cotta with the green of the garden.
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| Sun-dried |
I had fun arranging them, and kept adding pieces as I cleaned them. Anyone wandering in off the street would probably have thought it looked like some ancient city of thimbles or bells, or, more probably, that some crazy person lived here.
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| Used the table too! |
The best part was sorting them according to size and organizing them into stacks either in the potting shed or the greenhouse. I put newspaper between the larger ones in the greenhouse, to make them easier to separate and to keep them drier.
These photos are fantastic, so comforting to see the order and cleanliness! Old CC will be pleased with your work!
ReplyDeleteThanks! It was a good chore to do solo, but my back is a bit sore today and I have terrible hangnails from all the pot cleaning. I posted a picture of all the pots on Instagram, and my English cousin said I should leave them as is! Tempting, but not very practical.
DeleteI bow to you, JDP. Totally humbled here.
ReplyDeleteIt WAS a lot of work, but the completed task made it worth it. I did a rough count and I think I cleaned, dried, sorted and stacked over 100 pots of varying sizes! It was definitely a good workout, as my sore muscles are telling me today.
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