Last year a friend gave me a boxed raised garden bed kit that is I think a 4'x4' square with corner supports, 6" tall on the sides. I never found a place to use it so today I handed the box over to my daughter who has to relocate her raised bed because the current spot gets so much sun last year's garden was burned to a crisp. This kit will I think get that relocation started. She can set it up in the new spot and then start moving the raised bed from the old location and have two beds to use this spring/summer/fall growing season. Spacing them apart by 3 - 4 feet gives a path between and it begins to look like a real garden. I have built raised beds down the side of my driveway and at this point have four of them and a separate stone-walled bed I'm reworking into a fifth. (Today she told me about having tree frogs in her yard and on the house. They're like my toads and lizards here, at night the frogs cling to the screens over the windows and catch bugs attracted to the light. Yards full of reptiles are healthy places to garden.)

Sometimes I wonder what kinds of things my kids learned from me that they're using in their lives now. My son went to a protest march last weekend and my daughter is working on her garden, so I can see that some of it got through (will work on finding good protests for her to go to also, like at the Tesla store near her workplace - she lives in a rural conservative area now). She is raising chickens and dealing with a bully in the flock (giving "time out" to a chicken!); he is doing an amazing amount of cooking because I always cooked from scratch and rarely brought home processed foods. Being self-contained and resourceful in this political environment is probably a good thing for all of us.

Time to stop playing, turn off the computer, unplug stuff, and put in the new WiFi card.