Cold Outside - November Garden

It's very cold out in the garden but things are still growing.

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[CampKohler]

Nosy questions: Is your garden area the entire yard or is the yard split up by fences among several tenants of the building? If you go between the fence and the shed, does that lead to the front of the lot or do you have to go through the house to reach the street? Did you have the tree cut up or was that wood pile already there? Whose wheelbarrow is that? (You don't seem like the wheelbarrow owning type.) Can they evict you when you've cleaned everything up and charge more to someone else?

[Eliseharris]

@CampKohler everything you can see, including the back shed (actually a garage) is part of the garden. The landlord had the some trees chopped down and we have been getting rid of the logs and sticks ever since (mostly putting the branches in the garden waste collection - but the green bins don't take much so it's taken a long time).

[Eliseharris]

And the street is on the other side of the house. There is a lane leading to the back garden.

[JerryLehane3]

Are you going to make most of the yard a garden or plant grass seed? Do you have full use of the shed out back,or garage? OOOOH what mysteries are in the shed? Storage,Tools,ZOMBIES ? I wonder what video possibilities await in the shed??? How many years do you plan to stay?

[Eliseharris]

@JerryLehane3 I can go in the garage/shed, but the garage door is missing so that would need fixing. There is old furniture and junk in there. Couldn't get to it this time last year as the missing door was hidden by felled trees and the front door was hidden by ten foot high blackberry canes. Don't know how long I will be here - never know what the future holds.

[CampKohler]

@Eliseharris You are fast! I posted a reply, saw that it was in the wrong place and had spelling errors, so I deleted it, corrected and reposted in the right place AND YOU HAD ANSWERED IT THREE MINUTES BEFORE. Yikes.

[CampKohler]

@Eliseharris @Eliseharris By lane do you mean an adorable, leaf-strewn path meandering through the neighborhood where possibly lovers trod hand-in-hand (which is what we might think in U.S.) or a narrow, utilitarian, sometimes ugly street along the rear of properties for access to garages, garbage cans (sorry, dust bins) and the like? We call those alleys. They are rare except in older areas, because they eat up land and invite crime.

[Eliseharris]

@CampKohler the former. It's all overgrown and wild though at one time people probably used it to access the back of their houses. A few people have garages out back but most people have parking on their front drives so the lane is very quiet.

[JerryLehane3]

You've made great headway and major improvements,cause for celebration.I just had a flash of me chatting with you on skype 10 years from now about these days in your life and mine.It would be like next door neighbors talk.

[mnemonyxx2]

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