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I like it. You can always have someone weld whatever you might need to hang it. As antiques go, the price is not that bad. Good excuse for a road trip!

Scaldingly hot--it comes directly from black hoses piled up on our storage shed roof in full sun. We finally had to plumb some cold well water in so we could mix the two. There's enough for both of us to take one shower each by day's end. We use it a lot in the summer.

Red, that's actually my greenhouse in the background. However, my neighbor's house is now in full view behind it after the tornado took out a lot of our trees. Once we build the new greenhouse we'll have shower privacy again. Meanwhile, I'm going to be adding a trellis, vines, and curtains. The...

Here it is in the foreground and background, with Gilbert and the outdoor shower project.

When our lawn died in the Texas drought of 2011 we replaced it with Straggler Daisy (also called Horse Herb), which was already growing on our property. It takes our foot/dog/lawn tractor traffic pretty well, only grows about 4 inches tall (but can be high cut a couple times a year to neaten)...

Ridge, I like your tomato system. My store bought cages are old and falling apart, I might try something like this next year. Your land looks kind of like ours, with the hills in the distance, only it looks like your evergreens are some sort of pine and ours are junipers.

The Imbotyi Chaphaza has sprouted! Many of the pole beans have sprouted on the cages. The 8' trellis is going in today. Russ, you could build the cages so the wires that bend over the ends just unhook so the fencing would lay flat in storage. We'll keep ours round and stacked in a staging...

@Ridgerunner wood mulch and chips take a very, very long time to break down in an arid climate, we even have to water our compost piles! Our utility company hires a local contractor who sells the mulch. We had to fight them to keep our own. We have tons of mulch from all the trees we lost in the...

I planted three of the Nyimo beans today in a large landscaper's tree pot near my greenhouse as a control. After they sprout I will cover and uncover these so they get only 12 hours of daylight, to imitate their growing condition on the equator as Russ suggested, and if they don't make by end of...

@lesa I've tried growing the northern lupines and they don't make it through the heat. They sure are lovely. @bobm I keep my sheep and donkey corralled during bluebonnet season. There are a whole host of native plants poisonous to livestock here in the desert but animals avoid them as long as...

If you don't find a taker, I could make room on my tall trellis going up this week.

You can always take it to a thrift store very far away and say your visiting niece/nephew saw it and fell in love with it, took it home with them. Of course, she might just buy you another :) Bless her heart, my mother has Alzhiemer's and has started buying me and my SIL what one might have...

Ideal is just a couple hours from me, but I had the worst experience with them several years ago even though the chicks were in the mail only a day. The order was mixed up, there were chicks missing, chicks I didn't order, dead chicks, blind chicks, chicks with broken legs. Previously we had a...

It's all looking great Bay! Congrats on your new granddaughter! Next month my grandson turns one. Can't wait to see veggies growing in you garden.

@so lucky Yes, Bluebonnets are lupines. They have a very tough seedcoat which takes several years to break down, so you may see yours one day. Here's the trick I use: Put the seeds into your freezer for a day. The next day place them in a collander and pour boiling water over them. Plant them in...

I planted the Imbotyi Chaphaza today. Tomorrow I will probably plant the ground nut in several different locations to see what works best for it.

We got the chairs so we could recline and stargaze without getting cricks in our necks.

Our wildflower meadow is peaking with Bluebonnets right now! The orange ball shaped flowers are Fragrant Gaillardia. They have no ray flowers (petals) and have the most beautiful fragrance. There are also bright magenta Wild Garlic and tall yellow Englemann's Daisies and White Rock Lettuce...

Love the image of the faux bois settee.

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