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Okay, one discontent from the day, but it's an amusing one, even amusing to me now:
They lie, I tell you. Rulers lie. Measuring tapes lie.
Okay, maybe they don't. I need a compass, and I need a bunch of string. Because this map makes no sense. None at all.
What, this entry makes no sense? Well, true enough. Let me try to put it, at least, into some semblance of order:
When I went out to my parents' house this week, I measured their front yard. We're going to put low bushes in to contain the dust from the road (they live on a dirt-and-gravel road), and put in a walking herb garden that is both attractive and functional. At least in theory; obviously this may take a while, but it sounds fun to me!
So everything looked straight-line-ish. Roughly. Looked. There's a dangerous word.
Distance between the fence and the road, at the south end of the area in question: 28 feet. Fence meets house, running parallel to front of house but the house's porch is 6 feet closer to the road than the fence. Planting of some form of broom in front of the walkway to the porch: edge of it is 5 feet closer to the road. EXTREMELY large, overgrown rosebush at end of broom: edge of it is 7 feet closer to the road.
These are what my notes say. So it should be around 10 feet (oh, give or take a couple feet for error) from the edge of the rose bush to the road, right?
According to my notes, it's 21-22 feet. Waaaah! This is so far off. So now I think I must go out and measure it again! Oh the horrors...I will have to visit my parents, and perhaps have dinner there again, and see the very cute kittens....
Still, I wish the measurements were better. I think I will try to get good angles this next time, and also I will use string and stake it down and mark key spots in color on it. That should help with measuring variations - I hope!!!
Wish me luck. Won't have time to do it until next weekend at the earliest, of course. Wish me luck anyway. :)
They lie, I tell you. Rulers lie. Measuring tapes lie.
Okay, maybe they don't. I need a compass, and I need a bunch of string. Because this map makes no sense. None at all.
What, this entry makes no sense? Well, true enough. Let me try to put it, at least, into some semblance of order:
When I went out to my parents' house this week, I measured their front yard. We're going to put low bushes in to contain the dust from the road (they live on a dirt-and-gravel road), and put in a walking herb garden that is both attractive and functional. At least in theory; obviously this may take a while, but it sounds fun to me!
So everything looked straight-line-ish. Roughly. Looked. There's a dangerous word.
Distance between the fence and the road, at the south end of the area in question: 28 feet. Fence meets house, running parallel to front of house but the house's porch is 6 feet closer to the road than the fence. Planting of some form of broom in front of the walkway to the porch: edge of it is 5 feet closer to the road. EXTREMELY large, overgrown rosebush at end of broom: edge of it is 7 feet closer to the road.
These are what my notes say. So it should be around 10 feet (oh, give or take a couple feet for error) from the edge of the rose bush to the road, right?
According to my notes, it's 21-22 feet. Waaaah! This is so far off. So now I think I must go out and measure it again! Oh the horrors...I will have to visit my parents, and perhaps have dinner there again, and see the very cute kittens....
Still, I wish the measurements were better. I think I will try to get good angles this next time, and also I will use string and stake it down and mark key spots in color on it. That should help with measuring variations - I hope!!!
Wish me luck. Won't have time to do it until next weekend at the earliest, of course. Wish me luck anyway. :)
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