Day One-ninety-six: gardening

So we hit a little snag on the flooring that we mentioned before. The water-based finish has raised the grain in much of the house leaving a very rough almost sandpapery feel. Also, the satin finish has left the redone floor looking dull and lifeless. The refinishing company is coming back tomorrow to do a couple more repairs and to buff and coat with a semi-gloss finish. We know that the higher gloss finish increases the likelihood of seeing scratches, but we're hoping that it peps up a floor that in some ways doesn't look as good as did when it was covered in dust (that's not true but it seems like it).


Faced with such a dilemma, we did what many others have done, we gardened and tackled the overgrown vegetable/herb garden. This Chernobyl-like beast straight out of the movie "Little Shop of Horrors":

Turned into this heap (which in turn became 4 bags of trash):

And now looks like this, a well-tended and aspiring flower bed. Somewhere in England an old gardener is smiling. If the number of worms and other aerating bugs were any sign then the ground should be plenty fertile.