Well, my gardening friends, the raised veggie beds are built. Glenn worked overtime and I put Revelstoke Lumber on my speed dial. With my math problems I screwed up how much rebar and hpw many ties. I did not do it once I did it twice. Hey, if it works - don't fix it and if it doesn't - make two more trips!! But here they lie looking so awesome like saying, :I am READY for planting!! I have new compost, I have been tilled, I am waiting!!" So do I try it. Plant the beets and the carrots and hopw the seed winter? May try one or two rows just for "research sake" translated - they look so good why not plant!" Like this is withdrawl from gardening - these were the last steps!!! I do have snaps and asters still flowering and the clematis against the garage is still putting out blooms. Guess they are enjoying the longest growing season around here that I remember!! I dooo have a project for the front lawn - a flower bed. I have a rise in my lawn about 2 feet that is just crying for a retaining wall flower bed about 15 feet long, 2 feet high and 3-4 feet wide. Hmmmmmmm I wonder ? Do we have time. Glenn would KILL me!! BUT>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>! Gayle -- "Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see" Mark Twain