So, anyway. Spring has sprung here in southwest Oklahoma although yesterday we could hardly tell. Winds blew 60 miles per hour and it was cold. No rain, just wind and cold. But today is beautiful. My husband has been working on the garden and I've been washing laundry and hanging it outside to dry.
Although it hasn't been a problem yet because we are in the middle of an extreme drought, my husband's working in the garden usually means mud in the house. I know the mud in the house means that vegetables and fruits will follow eventually. However, I'm always looking for ways to fight against the inevitable dirt tracks. (He tries to remember to take his shoes off at the door but this doesn't always happen.)
We have cats and we buy cat food. The dry cat food comes in large biodegradable bags. We also subscribe to several newspapers. There is no recycling center close to where we live so we are always looking for ways to reuse our newspapers. We've tried making bricks from newspapers and my husband often just digs a hole in the garden and buries them. (When I went to summer camps as a young girl, we often made woven mats from newspapers.) We've even tried using the newspapers for mulch but it is very windy here and often the newspapers, if not weighted down with enough soil, will fly around the garden, making everything look trashy. So . . . .
I thought of a way to use the cat food bags and the newspapers to make walkways in the garden so that maybe not so much dirt will track into the house. I saved up a week's worth of newspapers and stacked them inside an empty cat food sack, folded over the ends, and taped. I hope to have the whole garden lined with these "stepping stones" by the end of the summer. The bags full of newspapers will flatten down with use. Here's a picture of my first effort:
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| Irises in our garden HAPPY APRIL! WINTER IS OVER. |
You're so creative! The irises are beautiful!
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