The "What Are You Working On?" Thread - Week Ending March 8th 2014

[ecchi]

This morning I woke up to actual, real, sunshine (rather than the "rain rain rain" we have been having almost constantly since December last year). So I decided to delay getting back to "money earning" work and do a bit of gardening. I live in an apartment, so gardening involves a line of window boxes outside, and a line of vegetable growing boxes inside (real veg not ). Since I have tables, desks, and computers in front of the windows I have to do the window boxes from outside (so it is fortunate I live on the ground floor). Hence the fact that I have waited for a sunny/non rainy day to do it.

I discovered a weird thing. I actually have two small apartments rather than one big one so I have three windows on the front of the building all in a line. As you would expect, the soil in the boxes on two of the window sills was soaking wet. However the soil in the boxes on the other window sill was bone dry. And I don't just mean "not wet" I mean it was baked hard, like I had dried it in a kiln. Not only is this weird because of the amount of rain we have been getting, but the weirdest thing is that these boxes have exactly the same exposure as the other ones, and I cannot see how two lots can be soaking wet and the other lot bone dry. Strange.

Originally Posted by ecchi

Shit, I just tested the link in my last post and realised how 1990's that website looks. Since I built it last year, I guess I am going backwards in my web design!

Originally Posted by Greenguy

I concur

Originally Posted by Toby

Just call it a retro look.

Observation And Conclusion: From the above quotes we can clearly see that Toby is a nice guy who is considerate to other posters, always offering encouragement and consolation. While GreenGuy ain't!

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by ecchi

...While GreenGuy ain't!

Ain't ain't a word!

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

Ain't ain't a word!

I know but I am aware I am talking to Americans. Webster's dictionary says, under the definition of "ain't":

Although widely disapproved as nonstandard and more common in the habitual speech of the less educated, ain't in senses 1 and 2 is flourishing in American English.

Which I think is the same thing I said in this post: http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...7&postcount=11

[tadpole]

Originally Posted by ecchi

but the weirdest thing is that these boxes have exactly the same exposure as the other ones, and I cannot see how two lots can be soaking wet and the other lot bone dry. Strange.

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Seeing as you live on the ground floor with a bunch of crack heads in your building, perhaps one of them pisses in 2 pots and leaves the 3rd?|gardener|