Garage Hoarders: Part II

I decided it was time for an intervention!

In the past couple of months, I interviewed three contractors to build custom cabinets for the hoarding zone known as my parents' garage.  All three companies, Closet Factory, Closet by Design, and Garage Envy were completely different from each other.

Here's one of the designs for the garage...

 Cabinets along all three walls

The Curse of the Dill Beast

Some creature keeps eating my dill seedlings just as they sprout. It's making crazy! I think the fiend is either a snail, a slug, or a cutworm. But those three things are really ugly. So I put a picture up of this hilarious karate hamster from cuteoverload.com instead. Let me tell you what's been going on, while I share some more pictures of things that are cuter than garden pests (all images totally stolen from cute overload)...

HELL YES!!!

My Turkish vegetable seeds are here!!!
Melon (kavun) and eggplant (patlıjan, pronounced patlujan) seeds! So many, what will I do with them all!!!???

On Tap: not quite a snowpocalypse, but I'm going to wrap my plants anyway

This weekend's supposed to be CooooooooLD in LA. I've heard Valencia and the Pasadena Foothills may get snow. Saturday night is going to be the coldest night in my East Hollywood/Los Feliz neighborhood, with temperatures dropping to the 30s. I have a little bit of wind tunnel action going on in my backyard because of the layout of the space, so my birdbath will freeze over even when temps dip just into the low 40s. Upshot: I made a reminder to bring my potted subtropical plants into a sheltered area. Any plants I can't move that may suffer from frostbite, I will be wrapping with Reemay to try and insulate them a little. I'll be leaving my Kale and brussels sprouts exposed though, because I read they're supposed to taste better if they get a little frosted. At least I think I read that somewhere. I'm pretty sure I didn't make that up. It sounds believable in any case.

All you humans and animals stay cozy this weekend!

Check out this crazy brush!

I love weird, esoteric tools, and this is one of the weirdest I've ever seen! I saw it at my local art store, Blue Rooster. I get dizzy just looking at it. Apparently an artist has them custom made to paint special swirly designs. I was trying to think of other fun crafts or projects you could make with a brush like this, but I can't seem to come up with anything. It's like a physical manifestation of an art oxymoron.
-J