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Rain and Drunk Gardening
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It started raining yesterday. It 
hasn't rained for at least two months. 
So my wife and I were sitting out on 
the back porch, having a few beers and 
watching the rain, when it stopped and 
the sun came out. That's when she had 
a sudden inspiration: "Let's finish 
planting the garden!"

My wife has the best bad ideas!

We're way behind with the planting. 
After the trip to Maui, we decided to 
relocate the garden and it was a lot 
of work. The new garden spot is 
raised, and sits behind a concrete 
wall. I worried that if we over- 
watered we would put too much pressure 
on the wall, so I dug it all out and 
put in weeping tile to drain it. 
Anyways, that project (and a couple of 
others) set us back even more.

So we grabbed our beers, the seeds, 
and a few tools, and set off for the 
garden. The tomatoes and cucumbers 
were already in, so we planted 
carrots, radishes, beans, and lettuce. 
While we were working the sun set, and 
by the time we finished it was pretty 
dark. But it all went exceedingly 
well. Or so I thought.

I got up this morning and the rows 

	look* like drunk people planted them! 

We were really umm... creative with 
the placement. The rows go in all 
directions and nothing is particularly 
straight. I've never had to put extra 
posts along the strings to reroute 
them along the planting lines, but 
that's what I had to do today. I'm not 
sure how we're going to explain this 
when the seeds start to sprout and the 
relatives begin to visit....