Janie, I know that sensation of wasting time like that--other stuff intervenes, or not, but you don't end up doing the thing you planned to do. If you discover an exercise to get past those doldrums, let me know!

I ran around on behalf of the garden today. Home Depot for various things, including some of the seeds we've written about here. I'll be putting some in pots and some in the ground.

I picked up some hose repair kits and will use some of the shorter sections of old broken soaker hoses to make new loops and sections to put in the new garden. I use hoses and Siamese fittings and such to distribute the water as efficiently as possible. Sometimes the hose is coiled in large concentric watering loops, other times it will be partly looped and partly stretched out. Not sure what it will look like yet. Depends on how much hose I have to work with, for starters.

SRS