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dearmrsawyer · 6 months

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my GARDEN is DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It took 2 years but we made it 🎉🎉🎉 its life story under the cut

last year i dug up all the roses that the previous owners of this house had planted in this space. I HATE ROSE PLANTS. They're VERMIN. It took me a year (interrupted by la niña) to finally get them all out because i had to dig so far down to remove as much root system as i could. i learned that after the first attempt at removing them, where they all simply grew back because i left too many roots in tact 🙃 due to continued la niña last summer i wasn't able to get the space all the way ready so i spent autumn weeding everything that grew in the rain, digging about a foot into the ground to remove as much old dirt (and more roots) as i could, and tidying up everything we'd dumped there while the space was disused. I had pictures of that stage in the process but i can't find them, just know it looked like a garbage dump hahaha. i got all that done right as the temperature started to drop so i laid out a bunch of tarps to minimise the number of weeds that would grow back over winter and waited.

and then! SPRING. I ordered the soil back in September, 8 cubic metres of it which was definitely more than i needed sdkjlgfdkj but how am i supposed to know what a cubic metre is 😅 i was SO excited when it arrived (first photo), quickly followed by 'oh god i need to move all of this myself.' thankfully we had great weather in september so i could use every free moment i had for two weeks shoveling it into our wheelbarrow and then wheeling it down to tip into the garden area (the conclusion of my work in photo 2 lol). It was only at that point that i was like oh boy okay i REALLY have too much soil here. i filled up every single pot i could find and i added some more dirt to to our citrus tree garden in the courtyard since the existing soil had settled by that point and could use a top up. it still felt like way more than i had planned to buy BUT i thought you know what would be good, i could create tiers to organise the vegetables by how deep their roots grow! i laid down a couple of layers of newspaper to deter anything from the existing dirt growing up into my new soil and then started flattening it out. when we first moved in here there was a tonne of random building material around that the previous owners left behind, and we never got rid of it because we figured a purpose would eventually arise. and my garden was it. i collected all the cement blocks and bricks down the side/behind the house, plus the random lattices that had been piled up where our yard meets the neighbour's, and a scrap of fence leftover from the one we put alongside our driveway last year. There were also heaps of random planks of wood, and some logs from a tree that we trimmed earlier in the year. and i used ALL of it (picture three).

Then a couple of weeks ago i finally got to plant my seeds :D (final product, final photo) the tall section up the back is for the deep root veges, so i've planted pumpkin and cucumber there. in the middle i've planted zucchini, cabbage, cauliflower, silverbeet, radish and green beans. and the shallowest area down the bottom has beetroot, celery, lettuce, broccoli and snow peas. also a passionfruit plant in the corner :) i've also scattered flower seeds all over as i've read that it helps to attract pollinators/insects that will eat other insects that want to eat my vegetables. i've put a couple of flowering herbs into pots down there too, and i marked where i planted everything with sticks so i can remember dskfdklj also i drew myself a map.

i'm so thrilled with it :') its such a good space and now it will be useful! there's a good chance some of my seeds won't sprout as they're a couple of years old, but some of them are new and anyway i don't care, whatever grows will grow and whatever doesn't i'll try again in autumn. its just so exciting to have a garden to tend again, i know that i need to be able to just put my hands in dirt sometimes, it is a very helpful outlet, and also will maybe save us grocery money \o/

#i love staring at it through the lounge room window #i go and stand there everyday and just look at it lol #im so proud of it and so excited its finally come together!!!#its feel so good to see a vision realised #tp

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korrasamibottles · 2 months

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Long tag game!! Thanks @nova-leaf @lilrobinbird for tagging me💖

How many tumblr accounts have you had before this one?

Just one! I made it in 2012 to look at Walking Dead and Supernatural gifs and eventually it just turned into a personal blog. I met two of my best friends there!! Unfortunately I'm locked out of it for now because I decided to be a responsible internet enjoyer and changed all my passwords and I uhh. I can't remember what I changed it to. And the email I used to sign up 12 years ago is long dead. So that blog might be gone forever. Life is a highway I'm gonna ride it all night long etc. etc.

How long have you been in fandom?

I had really intense Supernatural and MCU phases back in the day, and binged TLOK and ATLA in 2015 after the Korra finale (I watched Korra first and then atla, and I maintain that's the best way to do it😌) but I never really participated in the fandom, like I never talked to anyone or made anything. So I'm gonna say I've been in fandom since summer 2023 when I made this blog to post my tlok fic (couldn't post it on my old one. My face is/was all over it. You understand.) Everyone I've interacted with here is like. Shockingly nice. Idk why I expected to be beaten with hammers but umm it didn't happen so thank you all for that💖

Your favorite trope in fiction?

AND THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED!!!!! Also rivals coming together to fight a common enemy and then maybe coming together in a different way.....? That's good too.

Your favorite random fact?

There are vast, delicate fungal networks in the earth beneath our feet right now as we speak :) They wrap around tree roots and spread far and wide, connecting multiple trees with each other and allowing them to share water and nutrients. This is especially helpful for saplings, which often aren't able to get enough sunlight to make their own sugars. The fungal network helps ensure the survival of young trees, and in exchange it gets a share in the nutrients being passed between the trees!!!

Your favourite game or kind of game?

Saw trap.

A place you’d like to visit? (If carbon emissions, logistics and money weren’t in question)

Oh god literally anywhere. I want to get marinated in every culture and environment I think that would blow my mind in the best way. I do want to make it to Italy specifically at some point in my life because apparently I have cousins there? But then again what if they're weird and I don't actually want to meet them.....

An animal you’re irrationally afraid of?

I can't really think of any? As a kid I was terrified of big dogs, but that fear is like 99% gone now. Sometimes other people have their dogs off leash in the woods and I gotta say. I Do Not Like It when they come running up snarling barking jumping with their hair raised at me. But the vast majority of dogs are I encounter are nice, and when they aren't I just try to ignore them and keep walking lol.

What’s your favourite season?

Autumn 10000% and then winter. Then spring. Then summer. I hate being hot.

A smell that brings you nice memories?

So maybe this is weird but I really like the way horses smell? I was a farm girl growing up and always loved horses....a horse bit the top of my head once...a different horse broke my arm......still love them.

(If you’re ok talking about food. If not, delete this part) What’s your favorite food from where you were born? And what’s your favorite food from some place else?

My mom's Italian so it was all pasta all the time growing up...lasagna😭 Also chicken cacciatore but the pasta isn't the main event there. But yeah. Pasta tomato garlic basil.....I'm there babiee.

I'm also obsessed with Indian food and there's a place near me that has a vegetable korma that makes me cry.

What’s your favorite drink (if you drink alcohol, alcoholic and non-alcoholic)?

I don't drink alcohol anymore but I loooooooved rum & coke. Also hard cider.

As for regular drinks. I am 75% fruit juice by volume at all times.

Do you give your pets random table scraps?

My cat is a huge freak who turns her nose up at human food like she's literally too good for it. Sometimes I'll offer her a piece of cheese and she'll lick it, but that's it.

I don't know who has and hasn't been tagged already so if you want to do this. Do it🫵

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ssaalexblake · 4 years

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I need more garden space, i’m trying to plan out where to do all the vegetable planting and... I need more space.

#chronicles of a vegetable garden #it's too early to start planning in feb but i am anyway!!!!#i have 2 raised beds #a stand for pots #and one flower bed #which is Questionable b/c the butterflies last year ate everything on it and reproduced on them too #and sent forth a catterpillar hoard #it was... unpleasant actually #turns out they Really love brussel sprouts #like obsessively #i want spring and summer back i can't grow anything in the winter lol #when in the hell did i turn into yuki sohma

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couchbrotato · 5 years

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Yesterday (November 15, 2018) around 8 a.m. I became the happiest I've been in quite a while. Before I can tell you why, I must tell you the long backstory. (There is a TL;DR)

Back in March of 2014 "AH" (my boyfriend) asked me out. We enjoyed 6 months of bliss. (Yes, we argued. No, we weren't in the honeymoon phase. And before you ask, his mom was and still is the cause of most of our arguments) Anyways.

On our 6 month anniversary he gave me a promise ring and (basically) promised to marry me some day; however, our cocoon of happiness was shattered 5 days later when his father committed suicide. He was never really close his dad, but it was hard to handle nonetheless. About 2 weeks later on October 12 he broke up with me over text because he could no longer feel anything and wanted space.

It took a lot of me spamming him, but a couple of days later he agreed to meet and at least talk it over. We got back together almost as soon as we were along because the 3 days of not being together were pure torture. I left the next week for 3 weeks on a trip I had been planning with my Grandma. His father's funeral happened after I got back and everything was great for the next few months as we talked through things and worked on our communication. Unfortunately for both of us, the spring, summer, and fall of 2015 and 2016 were very turbulent. This was because he started having anxiety attacks and, rarely, panic attacks. When this started happening, neither of us had any idea of how to act and react to them as it was new to us. Well, over time he developed a very inefficient reaction to his attacks. Here's how it went: I would ask him if he was ok (because I just thought he was upset) and I would continually ask until he responded. His response was typically out of anger/annoyance (I am pretty annoying). I would then be shocked at his behavior and we would end up fighting. The fighting had one main end result: breaking up.

He would break up with me and I would storm off (and cry myself to sleep). This would lead to him calling the next day in tears begging me to take him back, which I did. At some point, however, I had had enough. I told him I couldn't take him breaking up with me, especially so often, so I told he needed to get help or our next break up would be our last (stress is a trigger and we figured out that, when in the middle of an attack, he would instinctively push away the most removable stressor...which was me. We figured out the two other stressors: his mom and school).

He didn't get help at that time, but instead decided to internationalize it which caused it to morph into barely controlled rage. The pent-up rage he held was almost lethal to our relationship when combined with his stubbornness. This led to him telling me to ask a family member of mine to do something (in November 2016) and I had told him no because it made me uncomfortable. We went back and forth until he yelled, "FINE! I'LL ASK HER MYSELF WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT" to which I basically said "The hell you are!? 🤬" and I broke up with him on the spot.

Of course, it was awkward because I had told him a week before the we could carpool to a class we shared. So, when we went to go to class a couple days later, he just looked at me and started crying. He asked for another chance to prove himself to me. I told him, "Fine. This is your last chance. If we break up again, that's it. No more chances." (He agreed). I also told him he needed to talk to someone about his anxiety and anger. (He did go to someone and he can't afford to go right now, but is doing so much better)

I need to mention that a year ago (late fall 2017) he tried to set up a dinner with my parents by himself. My parents alerted me and I pretty much lost it because I was terrified of marriage.

Here we are, 2 years after our last break up, 4 years after our first break up and 4 & 1/2 years since we started this wild ride. We have been through so much and have both gone to hell and back many times in our relationship. The horrible times we have gone through have really helped me to better appreciate who he is now and how well he is doing compared to when we first started dating.

Now that you've read the brief version of the history of my boyfriend and mine's relationship, I can tell you what happened yesterday.

- - November 15, 2018 - -

- - - - - - 8:00 a.m. - - - - - -

I was spending the night at my boyfriend's so that we could leave early to do some out of town business. I had woke up to learn that he had slid into a ditch around 1/1:30 a.m. when he went to pick up his mom's boyfriend and he was stuck there for 2 hours before help arrived. That was enough to convince me not to leave town, but not him. He left to go get bags of sand for the back of his truck to help with traction.

I sat in the middle of his bed, my legs crossed, while I held my phone limply in my left hand. My thoughts ran everywhere. I started seeing our relationship from the beginning to now and kept replaying the sweet moments. What if he gets into a bad wreck? What if he gets stuck in a ditch again? What if he leaves and never comes back? The last thought was enough to make me jump up and start pacing from rising panic. I felt the need to see him and hold him grow the longer I waited for him to come back from his short trip to the store.

My mind leapt from thought to thought until it settled on one thought: proposing. At that moment it was rational and irrational. Rational due to a deep need of wanting to know that, even if something happened, he would want to spend the rest of his life with me. It was also an irrational thought. This is because we have, since September (2018), spoken in both very obvious-hint filled conversations as well as directly about me changing my mind, being ready to get married, and a good proposal date.

So, while I was out of state at a BTS concert, he sat my parents down and asked if they had his permission to ask for my hand. I knew the moment he did it because my parents texted me..🙄 lol ... Anyways, so here I am with the rationalization that something could happen and the other side saying you can totally wait until he proposes at college graduation on December 15.

Eventually my first thought won, but I didn't have a ring. Or did I? You see, about a year before "AH" and I started dating I had bought a (new) silver mans ring thinking I would give it to the guy I would marry. It just so happens that I had given it to him when he gave me my promise ring and it fit his finger perfectly. I just had to find it.

That last place I had seen it was his jewelry box, but I hadn't seen it in a couple of years. So I thoroughly searched his room from top to bottom for the jewelry box. After a bit I finally saw it sitting under an old boom box in the corner of his room. I picked up the heavy boom box and opened the jewelry box to find that the ring I was looking for was in the first ring slot.

I plucked the ring out of its spot, put everything back as it had been, then sat down with my thoughts once more. Are you sure you want to do this? What if it's embarrassing for him? What about his proposal? You're going to come off as impati-ohmygod. He's back! I hear him shut his truck off as well as enter the house as the front door loudly creaked and squealed in protest to moving in the winter air.

His thudding footsteps got louder until he turned the corner into his bedroom and stopped in front of me. I gave him a kiss and asked if he was absolutely sure that he wanted to drive out of town. He nodded and said, "Yes. It needs to get done and I can't let the weather stop me!" as he turned his back to me so he could set his jingling keys down.

Without a second of physical hesitation, I lowered myself silently onto my left knee. Ohmygodohmygodohmygod areyousureyoureallywanttodothis? Ohshitheisturningaround!!!! 😱 TOOLATE!!!!!!!! Looking up, he is completely in shock as a tinge of red sweeps across his cheeks. "AH," I start, "will you marry me?"

The shock melted from his face as overwhelming joy, disbelief, and slight embarrassment took over causing him to shake his head back and forth as he chuckled. Swish is the next sound filling both of our ears as I whip the ring out and hold it up in my right hand. He starts to laugh deeply as he says "Yes!" which is followed by him lifting up both of his shaking hands because, in all the excitement, he forgot which hand the ring went on.

My brain followed suit as I went to put it on his right hand thinking it was his left. Thankfully I stopped and thought for a moment before I put it on his left hand (the right one lol). We kissed for a moment and he said, "This would be a good time for a song," so I whipped out my handy dandy spotify app and pulled up our playlist. Picking our second song, I pushed play. We started swaying to the music (off beat might I add because he doesn't know how to dance) as the words "Saturday morning jumped out of bed-" [Rude by MAGIC!]

Afterwards we talked about me being impatient, but that I also wanted to see his proposal as well as wait to tell people until graduation. You see, I want to see his proposal and can't do it unless I don't wear the ring he got me until December 15th and, until then, we are secretly engaged. It seems weird, but we both agreed to it. We also agreed that I would start wearing my promise ring on my right hand's ring finger for the next month. He did let me see, and take pictures of, the engagement ring that he bought me. Here it is!

~ TL;DR - My boyfriend and I went though a lot to get to where we are. I proceeded to propose to him exactly a month before he was supposed to propose to me.

I'M SO EXCITED!!!!! 💍💍💍💍🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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