bearcub,
You sure poured your heart into that one!
Re: the wall. Last fall my wife and I bought a small house on 1+ acre of land in a lovely town of 1670+/- population. Planting a vegetable garden this spring forced me to extract many rocks from the soil on my hillside, and wouldn't you know it, I have erected a stone wall around my garden. Unfortunately, I have just completed encircling the circumference, a semicircle about 75 feet in diameter, and have only achieved an average height of about 18", so short of electrifying it in some way, it is more aesthetic than defensive.
When I was about half way through this enterprise, I realized that its real purpose was procrastination. Tilling the previously unworked, cold, wet soil was boring, and my Y2K-to-do list was really daunting.
We would all like this threat to go away, so we can revert to more conventional sources of entertainment. But until we finally witness the results of the one true Y2K test itself, in January next, I do not believe that backsliding on this issue is prudent.
My first crop, cucumbers, are starting to mature, so we are going to learn "pickling." Whether our extensive preparation efforts will actually deliver us from this perceived pickle. . . as so many on these SI threads insist on repeating, ad nauseam, "only time will tell."
Bill Peavey |
