Testing! First Post!
Last weekend I met the Garden People and had a wardrobe malfunction as I gathered winter debris in the parking strip garden.
We just got a puppy. We've lived in the urban Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle for over 10 years and must know tons of people and yet I am amazed at the number of local people I've met since we got the pup. It's kind of like when we had kids--we met the Kid People. Now we're meeting the Dog People.
This past weekend I met The Garden People. I was out working in my parking strip garden, tending the blueberries, strawberries, lavender and assorted other things planted last summer and just now coming out of their first winter. People cheered me on as they walked by. Some people offered sympathy for the sore muscles I would surely suffer this week from my first weeding of the season. I liked it. This is my first garden and I need all the support I can get.
I did have a challenge though. A wardrobe malfunction. The first pair of pants I wore were low-ish rise jeans, and when I crouched down to gather leaves from under the lavendar I displayed my plumber's wares to the apartment-dwellers across the street, in addition to all the cars and pedestrians passing by. So I went and changed to yoga pants. Sadly, the yoga pants were losing their stretch, and so I had to hike and hike and hike them up again and again as I moved between the yard waste bin and the ground. My kids came home from the park and confirmed that my pants were indeed falling down and would I please change before I embarrassed them to death.
So I come to Dig The Dirt to learn all about plants AND pants AND whatever else people can teach me. And I'm happy to share what I learn. First lesson: get yourself some overalls.
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parking strip, clothing, community
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