What A Difference Eight Years Makes . . .

Eight years ago

on a trip to Joplin

with a friend,

we visited a decor/garden shop

I'd not been there before

And I never went back

for a long time

And when I did, it was gone

But on that one visit,

I bought

These two pieces of iron fencing

I'm a sucker for iron 

They were not that expensive

and I thought I could use them somewhere in the garden

(even though there were only two of them).

I never did really find a home for them

I shifted them from one place to another

But two small pieces . . . 

They just didn't fit!

But I kept them 

And I'm glad I did, because

 between the squirrels and Dolly

My chive bed was just a patch of bare soil

And then I remembered the two pieces of iron fencing . . . 

And it was a good solution.

Dolly  doesn't run through the bed anymore

(And neither does Doogie -- Dolly was a bad influence!)

And so I bought some chive plants to plant

for a bare bed is a sad bed!

But it looked a little strange

One of the four garden beds

with iron fence.

What to do?

Time to google

And on Amazon . . .

Look what I found!

Except for being not quite as rusty . . . 

They are a perfect match.

And you have to realize that it is eight years after I bought the first two!!!

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 I put them catycornered from the chive bed

Bare dirt because the basil will go here when it warms up.

Catycornered because that made more sense to me

Why only two when there are four beds?

Because when I was waffling about exactly how many I needed

They sold all but two.

I grabbed those two

And hopefully when Amazon restocks, I can get enough fence to finish

And I will have decided exactly how many I need!

I like the look

it defines the beds a bit better

And it does keep the dogs on the brick paths.

Dogs, after all, can be hard on a garden!

In the "mail" today

Was also

a new bee skep

My old one had weathered away.

It's a bit different

But every herb garden needs a skep 

We placed the new fence and the bee skep in the rain

this afternoon after we got home.

We were chilled for it was a cool April day.

For dinner . . .

Beef noodle soup

Egg noodles in a beefy broth with chunks of beef and plenty of celery and carrots and a few peas.

Homemade soup makes a wonderful dinner.

It's Wednesday and I'm joining Susan at A Southern Daydreamer for Outdoor Wednesday.