The first bits of my seedling kit arrived.

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Technically, I suppose the seeds were the first part.  It depends on whether you consider the product part of the manufacturing process?  Me?  Not so much.  A large shelving cabinet, lining for the shelves, coir, hooks, and a few other items for the gardening.  As well, I purchased diatomaceous earth (food grade) and an applicator, and a few things for Burning Man.  Oh, and a deck of Bettie Page playing cards...  Hey, Betty Boop just doesn't cut it anymore.  I'm weak, it was inexpensive, I am pleased, what else can I say.

I don't think I will bother to set up the shelving until later, though perhaps I ought to make sure everything is there to actually put it together.  Quality control and such is pretty rampantly terrible these days.  On the good side it is only going to get worse, so that diy will certainly be coming into it's own... until the electric grid fails with a whimper or government mandate.  At which time people will get used to getting by as they always had to before the advent of everything tech, high speed, and such.  I won't miss cellphones, gotta tell you.  Gosh but that is going to suck in some ways, though.  Do you know how long it takes to cut a tree, saw the wood into planks, dry that, plane the planks evenly, then construct even a dresser?  By hand?  Women will, however, once again, come to an absolute understanding that they are not, indeed, equal.  There might even be some spiritual understanding, though I doubt it for most.  That has rarely been the case.

I honestly can't wait to get everything rigged and going with the garden, though.  I still need small and medium pots, for first and second planting.  I can hold off on the bigger pots I would guess.  I will be trying coconut coir (or some such) for the first planting material if I think the second planting will require actual planting soil.  I need two, perhaps three (at least?) double bulb fluorescent lamps.  There is a small host of things that I could use, need, or want.  However, pretty much, at least half and possibly a slight majority of the cost has been tended.  I think... hope. 

I am just trying to run some things through my mind.  I can't believe I actually had a notion, which has required some planning, that I am getting to in a timely manner.  A project, conceived and going forward within the time-frame that makes it functional (potentially) on the first shot.  This, swimming, and the rest...  It is amazing to me.  Even if I hurt some women's feelings on the way.  It's my lot, you know. 

Later.