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  1. Xerocles

    Xerocles head in the clouds and feet firmly in the mud.

    :lol: remember you're talking to a city boy returned to the country. Those trees are the wooden kind.:lol:
  2. Xerocles

    Xerocles head in the clouds and feet firmly in the mud.

    Well, it's raining and cold (by MY standards. 39f. Sorry bout that to you folks up to your bellybutton in snow). So, I might as well put the next chapter in here now. With the plot chosen, the prep work begins. No matter WHAT style I chose, first those saplings had to go. So, chainsaw time...
  3. Xerocles

    Worse than new.

    Course I don't know how old you are (and a gentleman never asks) but keep in mind that President Harry Truman could have kissed ME as a baby! :thumbsup And all I've GOT is time. All the time left in my world. I don't rush anything any more. That's just rushing til I DON'T have time. I used to...
  4. Xerocles

    Worse than new.

    I'm in Laurens county, about half way between Saluda & Ftn Inn and this IS my hometown. But the vast majority of my adulthood was in Columbia, where it's so sandy you could hear the water whistle as it ran through the ground.
  5. Xerocles

    Worse than new.

    See? See? SEE! I havent even cracked my seed coating yet. And you're already rushing me! :lol: I bet when you plant corn, you're out there next morning, looking for sprouts! I just started in "me and my garden". All my stumbles and fumbles will be documented there. So, join me if you dare. I...
  6. Xerocles

    Xerocles head in the clouds and feet firmly in the mud.

    We start by selecting the plot of ground. My avatar that I put up today is exactly that. I'll also put it here because the avatar is so tiny. Doesn't look like much of a "garden" does it? I'm in the piedmont of SC, living on the side of a hill. I gain (or lose) about 30 ft of elevation from...
  7. Xerocles

    Worse than new.

    @Beekissed yep, gotcha. And I WILL ask questions (hopefully in the right places) when I have questions. But right now I'm to ignorant about this to even know questions to ask. So, I just want some place to annotate my fumblings for my future reminisces....and hope that SOMEONE will see and say...
  8. Xerocles

    Worse than new.

    Thanks. Actually "about me and my garden" looks like where I'm looking for. Don't know why I didn't find that on my own, but thank you.
  9. Xerocles

    Worse than new.

    Here goes my first question. Now, I dont want to be one of those people who move somewhere new and "make it just like" where I came from. BUT. On BYH there is a forum for "member's journals". I dont use that feature there. But here, since I am snuggled safely down in the earth and don't even...
  10. Xerocles

    Worse than new.

    I came here at the urging of friends at BackYardHerds. I am 1 year retired, and 1 yr back in the country. Although I grew up rural, I never really experienced "country" living. I am in the piedmont area of South Carolina, relatively mild climate, and rather hilly terrain. I am worse than a...
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