{"id":2244,"date":"2007-05-01T22:26:46","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T03:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2017-07-19T14:06:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T19:06:33","slug":"shed-not-a-tear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/garden-house-project\/shed-not-a-tear\/","title":{"rendered":"Shed Not A Tear"},"content":{"rendered":"

The tagline from Croupier<\/a> was “Hang on tightly; let go lightly.” That pretty much sums up my attitude in life. I have a hard time letting go but once I make the decision…poof!<\/p>\n

Ever since last summer when we installed the new kitchen window<\/a>, we’ve come face to face with an incontrovertible realization. There’s a damn ugly shed in our backyard. This pretty useless outbuilding with a leaky roof and infested with termites is a blight on the whole back garden. Worse, it collects junk. We fill it with empty cardboard boxes, rotting lumber, old bottles, defunct garden hoses, and broken toys.<\/p>\n

Last year’s (still not quite finished) kitchen remodel left us sick of DIY projects. So we decided (the Garden Ranters will gasp) to hire someone to do it for us. And worse (please Garden Ranters, don’t go into apoplexy), we are going to convert it into an Outdoor Living Space<\/a>. Our little cottage doesn’t have a separate dining room and although our kitchenette table is fine for the two of us, we thought it might be nice to have people over from time to time. (I did so enjoy having the Austin Garden Bloggers.)<\/p>\n

I found a design I really liked<\/a> (mouse over the upper right thumbnail). Our first job was to cut down the Texas Mountain laurels that are standing where the new deck will be. I never intended for them to grow there. I planted seed in the drip line hoping they’d sprout and they did. Thing is, I never got around to transplanting them. So there they’ve grown for ten years and 7 feet.<\/p>\n

\"Zanthan
Our first job was to cut down the Texas mountain laurel that I’d grown from seed.<\/i><\/p>\n

Next we had to clean out the shed. I collapsed all the cardboard boxes and bound them up for recycling. I took a decade’s worth of black plastic plant containers to Barton Springs Nursery for recycling. Pam @ Digging took my blue bottles and turned them into an artsy bottle tree<\/a>. The rest of the stuff, we left for the builder to haul off as trash when he demolished the old shed.<\/p>\n

Which he did today. Looks better already!<\/p>\n

\"Zanthan
2007-05-01. I love the possibilities of a clean slate.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The shed as it’s looked the last 14 years or so. (Notice how shady my garden is.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5446,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions\/5446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}