So Wrong
I opened up my mailbox a few minutes ago and was excited to find the newest issue of "Gardening Life" magazine inside. Frankly anything that isn't a bill or junk is exciting, but I digress. The first thing I do whenever I get a magazine is quickly leaf through the pages to see what's inside. I don't bother with the cover or the table of contents. Well I was a bit disappointed to find not one, not two, but three large "advertorials" in the recent issue -- one of which was about Holiday drinking and went on for a lengthy 11 pages! I know magazines need to make money, but I'm getting tired of this new wave in advertising. What does holiday liquor have to do with plants or gardening? And was eleven pages really necessary? That's practically a magazine in itself. Especially since minus the ads, the actual content probably amounts to not much more than eleven pages anyways. Urg.
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In other news I brought the remaining plants in after the shocking snowfall jolted me into reality. I ran out of mulch and have no opportunity to go get more so I committed a major gardening "faux paux" and laid clippings from plants I had cut back on top of some of the plants that needed some extra snuggliness. I would have used compost but I didn't have any of that either. In a second act of pure laziness I dug holes in the big planter boxes and "planted" a couple of pots right into that. We'll see what the results are come spring. Until then I'll just continue to live in a blissful state of denial of my wretched acts.
posted at 01:27 PM
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