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If, as the esteemed poet Robert Frost once opined, “Good fences make good neighbors,” these 15 fiendishly offensive fences must make good neighbors... furious.

A clever idea for adding color and sparkle to a drab, sun-bleached fence: I would recommend using new marbles. Vintage marbles will vary in size, slightly, so if you can deal with this, go ahead. So first, find your marbles if you’ve lost them, then determine a drill bit size that will bore a hole, ever so slightly smaller than your marble. You want it to press in snugly to help it stay put. No adhesive needed. I advise drilling test holes in scrap wood to help you get the right sized holes made. You may need to purchase a special sized bit. I lose a marble or two over the winter from the wood contracting and expanding and maybe a couple over the summer, but a little vigilance, popping them back in is all that’s needed. Further details at Garden Drama, via Neatorama.

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Here you will find my homemade cheez-it recipe for a kids snack!

I think I might be depressed. Not clinically gone. Not even close to needing a shrink. Definitely not in need of meds. (Though a generic loritab - left over from my knee surgery - might offer a brief respite of I can clean the house in ten minutes kind of relief.) Speaking of meds, what is it with narcotics anyhow? I can't take codeine unless I want to vomit until I dry heave, I don't tolerate aspirin or ibuprofen or anti-inflammatories, so the only choice left for me in "painkillers" are narcotics. Addictive! And since I object to taking drugs due to logical, moral and health reasoning, it's ironic that I should enjoy those narcs so much that I have saved a few even though it meant toughing out some pretty bad leg pain. I mean: I never even took acid or speed cause I like to be in control (of myself). Given the proper excuse (head injury, broken bones, etc.,) drugs are, uh, okay. I built this funky fence out of chair parts, wood turnings and left-over board and such. I have a bit of fun adding seasonal decorations... do ya like my giant carrot headed bunny? I'm stoic. I tolerate pain very well. I'm tough and I'm a survivor of four emergency room dashes, one of which included a speeding ambulance ride (fractured skull) to get there. Another time I drove myself there with a broken shoulder - and I had a five speed stick shift! One time I had keep from passing out long enough to prevent the hospital folk from cutting my custom made field boots off before I went for x-rays. But that was all back when I rode fearlessly on unpredictable horses - and I was, of course, many years younger. I bounced back. Now I don't bounce so well. The fall I took last September has permanently damaged my left knee, which was my best one (a horse having fallen on the right one - and I was once dragged by that right leg too on a horse named Lucky, of all things). In a riding "accident," there is a kind of glory. There is pride in the retelling. Falling in a puddle of water on a cement floor is without glory. There's only the mortification of knowing several people witnessed it and it was caught on video. After seven months, surgery, cortisone shots and some kind of lubricant injections, not to mention crutches, cane and limping - and several weeks of physical therapy, my right knee and my right hip are now inflamed. When I walk, I can't decide whether to limp right or left or just shuffle - kind of like Tim Conway as the old geezer. Sigh. I return to the awful part time job this week on "light duty". This is literally adding insult to injury. Spring. Bloom. Leaf. Grow. So, as my lack of postings here where I am normally wont to revel, wax poetic (about my kittehs) and philosophize illustrates: I am rather down. (Now that was a hard-to-read sentence!) But I still have my sense of humor, my kitties and kittehs still amuse me, and my geriatric dogs and horses are doing tolerably well. I'm even growing a bit of a garden. Soon there'll be tomatoes and sweet corn, potatoes and squash - and I picked my own greens grown from seed last eve for a stupendous salad. One needs things to look forward to even if one must create them. My salad? Black seeded simpson lettuce bibb or buttercrunch lettuce red leaf lettuce spinach black olives sliced red seedless grapes tomatoes thin sliced baby carrots celery bits (cause I need to use it up) Vidalia onion (just a bit) Balsamic vinegar (just a drizzle) and then ranch dressing on top... Yum. If you haven't tried grapes in your salad as a replacement for - or in addition to - tomatoes, please do so! I feel better now. Thanks for listening. I think I'll plant some nasturtiums for a zesty salad addition! Gracie. Just look at her perfect eyeliner...

Feel like you're living in a fishbowl? Here are some creative ideas for reclaiming your privacy from second story neighbors.

I was lucky enough to inherit this beautiful ‘Sweet Autumn’ Clematis (Clematis terniflora) when we moved in here at Chiot’s Run. It’s planted in the worst spot, almost in th…

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Say you hate your neighbor, and you want to block them from your sight, or you have wild, rabid children, and you don't want them to escape the backyard? Well then, you need a fence. Yes, fences are everywhere, and they serve all sorts of purposes, but they can be boring. Aren't you sick of chainlink, vinyl and wooden fences, just sitting there, looking plain and boring? Listen fence, I'm not paying you to be an eyesore! Slap on a little makeup, come your hair, and get to looking nice! Tear down your old fence and build something like one of these 34 cool and unique fences: Oh and while you are at it, you will probably enjoy looking at these unique park bences and these cool drinking fountains too! Sources: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Do you want a garden that blooms when the weather warms every spring? Get perennial spring flowers like yarrow and lantana in the ground this fall!

They say good fences make good neighbors, but this seems to be the exception to the rule!