Closing it Down & Inspired by the Garden

 

Strictly speaking, the guitar I'm building isn't precisely the garden. I'm going to stain the body with juice from beets that were grown in the garden. I guess that does make it garden related after all. Usually, the deep red staining quality of beets is a nuisance. But it's precisely the opposite of that in this application. It's amazing how toxic some of the stuff that they coat guitars in is. Nitrocellulose - don't even get me started. I had this custom pick-guard with the honeycomb pattern worked up by this guy in Canada with this business, Rusted Relics, and I've got a set of bumble-bee control knobs for it. 

This is going to be a big weekend for closing down the garden. After last week's mostly hiatus because of the half-marathon I ran leaving me in some pain and without a lot of extra energy, it's time to dig down and wrap it up.

The Crimson King maple dropped most of it's leaves yesterday, and a strong wind is finishing it off this morning. I mean, BAM! One day they were up, the next they were down. I'm wondering if that's where the band King Crimson got their name from? I suppose it is possible. No matter, we're actually going to need to bag these, as they're thick on the ground. Also need to pull the last plants from the last two beds and prep them for winter. The wheat grass in the one bed I'll hit with the weed-whacker and then turn into the soil and we'll find out how cover crops work as fertilizer. A few other odds & ends. Lawn chairs need to be put away, rain barrels emptied, a last mulch of the few leaves left in the front yard, bikes to the basement, electric snow blower up from the shed. 

Snow tires have been swapped in on the cars. It's time to be ready for winter. Let it not be said that we were grasshoppers fiddling away the hours.