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[gardengobbo]

April 30th 2024

Not much of a garden update here, but I assure you there has actually been some progress. So here's a photo of one of my dove frens I took one the 28th.

Keep readin' if you wanna hear me blab on about the video posts and ADHD. You've been warned, it's long 😂

So I've been enjoying doing the video-style posts instead of typing 90 paragraphs of nonsense, but I don't want to keep recording with my phone since the videos take up a bunch of space. (As well as me having to take off my dirt-coated gardening gloves every time I want to record.) I could just delete the clips after editing into one video, or just all of them after uploading, but I prefer having things backed up instead of just uploaded online.

I know I could back them up to my computer too, but part of the reason I enjoy the quick clips of nonsense slapped together with minimal editing is because it's simple and I can do it all on my phone. Either plugging it into my computer or even uploading them to Google Drive on my phone then downloading them onto the computer adds extra steps.

Extra steps that seem inconsequential, but something I know about myself is I'm very all or nothing. It's very hard for me to only do half of a thing. In this example that'd be editing the videos together and then hitting the block that I've finished that part and uploaded, but now I need to plug in my phone to the computer to transfer the video files. Or if I back them up to drive, it only has so much space before it yells at me to upgrade lol

Drive seems like the most logical option though as it would give me the freedom to at least have more time before I have to download the backups, however I know for a fact that when that point comes I won't record any more videos even if I want to because I need the space to back them up, but I dont want to sit down on the computer to download the Drive backups because I'm doing other things and will get distracted if I do.

This is a struggle for me in a lot of aspects, can't do Z because I need to do X but I can't do X until I do Y, and I need to finish ABC before I can do Y, but all I really want to finish is Z. And worse is that most times to do Z, there isn't any need for the other stuff. It's just me wanting Z done in a certain way that to do it that certain way, it requires all those other steps. This happens in the garden a lot too, so this rant is kinda still relevant 😅

Thankfully all of that hasn't caused an issue with me just not doing garden things because I want to record it, because trust me when I say that's happened a lot in the past too. (That being me wanting to make a little video of something but not being able to figure out how I want to set up the cameras so I don't do the craft or whatever because I want to record it so it just never happens but sticks in my brain as the thing I want to do but can't till I figure the recording process out.) Depression is the reason why I haven't been gardening 🤣

All this to say I have like, 2 days worth of clips I want to edit into a post to show the progress so far. One day is clips on my phone, the other I recorded with a little action camera and I'm not sure how that's turned out yet since that requires me to upload to the computer to see better. (See computer related snag above as to why thats not done!) Today I might go even further and just bring out my small digital camera I got years ago to do vlogs with, that I never vlogged with.

Which leads me to my last point, and Ima make a poll for thoughts on the idea after this post cause I know this is a lot to read and most folks won't care, and that's fine! I think maybe I will use that camera for vlogging finally. I'd have to learn how to use an actual video editing software, and it'd have to be lightweight cause my once-top-of-the-line-parts-now-10-years-outofdate computer struggles hard to play Helldivers 2 right now, I can't imagine trying to run something like Premier Pro. But to be honest all I want to do is add auto-captions like Ive already done previously so I'm sure I can fine some free or cheap program to do so. I'm just not sure if like, amateur gardening vlog style videos where I mutter to myself as I pour dirt is really a genre of content lmfao. And if it is, it's probs better off on here or tiktok but I'm going insane trying to not film landscape everytime I go to record something.

So like, I dunno, I guess youtube? I can probs figure out how to sorta make it acceptable for portrait orientation viewing after the fact? I have no idea but if there's a gap in video updates for today, that's why 🤣

Alright that's all for now. I gotta get up, get sunscreen'd, and get out there! As long as it's not raining still... it was last night 😅

#not really a gardening post #but theres a birb! #and me rambling about my stuggles with adhd and junk #a blog update of sorts i guess

[gardengobbo]

April 9th 2024

I'm not sure I'm keen on the way I've done these captions. Will have to keep experimenting.

The pizza was very tasty.

#garden nonsense #video post #my hubs knows when i get started on something i cant leave it half done #so i was joking when i said im surprised he hasnt come out and asked wtf i was doing #i thought he might because we were getting za #he actually texted me about it just as i was cleaning up lol

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April 9th 2024

Remember those little weeds I mentioned at the end of the last video...

#garden nonsense #video post #i really cant just leave anything alone lmao

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April 9th 2024

Didn't realize tumblr would only let me post one video per post, so I guess I'll just schedule the next couple after each other cause they kind tell a story in 3 parts 😂

I've also realized how weirdly I speak when I'm recording. I probably talk like this off video too, to be honest. But the captioning is making it more obvious.

A slight correction I also realized after this video, since I have to dig a big hole for the Peony to move into, a lot of that dirt can go into the other half of the garden bed. Meaning I probably need less dirt than I though I needed.

#garden nonsense #video post #dirt dirt dirt #i like dirt #and dirt likes me

[gardengobbo]

April 9th 2024

I'm trying y'all. I'm not funny or creative and I'm old and confused.

Enjoy? Legit though if anyone has any tips for recording my garden stuff, let me know 😅

#gardening #asmr sounds #bird feeder #I like videos like this with cuts between sounds #i particularly like the sound of the suet feeder opening in this tbh #video post

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April 9th 2024

It's so much better!! Oh my god, it genuinely was making me feel awful seeing the janky ass hack job I did previously which made it hard to get hyped about gardening things again. I've still not moved the peony, I know, I probably shouldn't at all at this point. But it's one of those ADHD hyper fixations I have now that I just can't let go. I just need to be careful digging it out.

I haven't slept yet, but I'm hoping today is the day it gets moved. I do also need to make banana bread, which I have been putting off for like 3 days now. To be fair a lot of things are getting put off because my mental health is still pretty tanked.

Enough of that, more garden talk! Well kind of, more like I'm still being an old disgruntled millennial trying to figure out how to make interesting short form videos so uh, here's one of a few I recorded yesterday. I'm going to post them in their own posts later 😂

#gardening #i feel like i should have a better tag than just gardening #cause like that tag has some fab stuff in it and im just posting dirt #like literal dirt lmao #and bad videos

[gardengobbo]

April 7th 2024

My hubs came home from work the other day while I was doing the bushes and raspberries and said my gardening fit looked like a low level RPG character that just puts on every item they find until they get the better, matching equipment. Not gonna lie lmao he's right. Not shown here is the old fur-topped winter boots I was also wearing cause the ground was squelchy and I don't have rain boots that fit 🤣

I wish I had a full body shot but they just looked dumb so you get this instead. The neon green are knee pads for when I'm kneeling. I'm actually a 92 year old man by the way. Speaking of, my god I forgot to stretch the other day and man were my gams unhappy about it. I remember to stretch a quarter the way into attaching the sunscreen privacy mesh thing yesterday though!

As well as the privacy screen getting installed yesterday, I also went and got another chunk of that tomato cage fencing for my raspberries and some more plant post things to hold them upright.

I actually couldn't find the singular green ones I was using, but the dollar store had some of these spiral drink holders that essentially looked like bigger plant stakes. Plus they're red and match the tomato cage fence!

I should probably actually look up if this is okay for them to be bunched this close but it worked okay last year so I'm just hoping for the best tbh. Though last year's grouping of them into clusters was done well after they'd started to bloom. I get the feeling they're just gonna grow and make space for themselves as they do so.

I did end up trimming them down a bit more too, despite the already started growth on the long main stems (Stalks? Trunks? I dunno.) because a couple of them were already pretty close to reaching the bird netting and I'd prefer them to not poke though it for as long as possible. I do want to look up how to manage the size of the damn thing this year though. Cause I don't think I really did any trimming back of it other than removing obviously dead branches.

I also got edging for the janky-ass garden bed and sprawled it out on the lawn to get sun and uncoil. I haven't been outside yet, but hopefully when I get out there it'll be straight and easy to work with. Cause today's singular goal is get that edging installed to move the peony. That's technically 2 goals I suppose.

But we shall see. I need to get moving aha

#gardening #raspberry bush #low level rpg character ootd

[gardengobbo]

You know usually I like big green leafy plants, but after dealing woth those huge grass tufft things for the last 3 seasons I've decided, fuck those things in particular.

They're razor sharp, a literal and figurative pain to deal with, and they aren't even that nice to look it. 😒

I need to remember to add another one of them tomato cage things I have for the raspberries to my list of things to get for the backyard.

#backyard maintenance #gardening

[gardengobbo]

Nothing makes me feel more like an out of touch old man than recording short-form videos.

But hey, let's try this gardening thing again.

#gardening #gobbogarden2024 #taking bets on how long till depression ruins the garden again!

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Little video to follow the last post about the corvid tree, since it wouldn't let me add it to the reblog.

#corvid tree #blue jays #blue jay calls

[gardengobbo]

There's a tall, mostly dead, tree I can see from my backyard that I call the corvid tree. I like to believe that it's where they gather to plot their mechivious plans.

There is always either crows or blue jays up there. I can't add the video so here's a photo of one of the blue jays instead.

#corvids #blue jays #corvid tree #my photography

[gardengobbo]

I got overwhelmed, depression kicked in, and now I've got the SADs. Hopefully come spring I'll be back to posting, but right now I'm just hiding.

Do I like that?

But it'll pass eventually. Eventually.

#toads #american toad #king kevin the second #stupid meme edits #toad posting

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My stargazers bloomed.

#stargazer lily #oriental lily #lilies #gardenblr #plantblr #q'd post

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#catnip #nepeta cataria #aussie #australian shepherd #my photos #im so exhausted #i wish i was posting more #just so much going on yet nothing at the same time #mental health is no joke guys

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Hi hi hi still alive very tired exhausted goblin

Have a toad.

#actual updates coming later #toad posting #gardenblr #toad

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#catnip garden #catnip #gardenblr #q'd post #lol sneaky toad

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June 27th 2023

The raspberries are berrying!

Me and mom actually ate those first three. And hilariously, they were a lot sweeter than I'd expected and I do actually like them 🤣

Today, the 28th, 4 more were ready to pick and so begins the accumilation of berries to freeze and prepare for jam!

#garden updates #rasberries #i guess i do like rasberries lmao #plans for jams #q'd post