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Stone garden border project day 3… aggravated husband day 3.

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Work is slowly progressing on my soon to be fabulous backyard perennial garden border.

Whether my marriage will survive it is another matter entirely.

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I’m not sure why my husband has chosen to take every single little thing I say about this endeavor as a slight, an insult or God forbid…. a question of his manly ability, but he has.

I go out and try to help, but somehow everything I do just ends up pissing him off. He’s sucking the joy out of the process with his attitude and moodiness, but I will not let him ruin it.

I will not.

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If you remember, I advised we buy at least two pallets of stone back at the start. I knew we would need at least two full pallets, but no. My husband knew better and we bought one.

So when he reached the end of pallet number one and wasn’t anywhere near finished?

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He was less than pleased to admit we needed the second pallet I had wanted since the beginning and grumbled that I was gloating.

Me?

No. That would never happen.

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33 thoughts on “Stone garden border project day 3… aggravated husband day 3.”

  1. Oh how I know how you feel. I’ve been struggling since I retired 2 years ago!! Walking out after 45 years of marriage has been on my mind at least once a week!!

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  3. Looks like you need more than one full pallet. I am familiar with the “I’m not gloating” thing. You don’t have to gloat. It’s enough that yo were right. The worst times were when my wife was (is) right when she has no earthly reason to know the answer. How does she do that?

    Good luck with pallet number 2. It is coming along nicely.

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  5. Husband may have grumbled that you were gloating, but my guess is that he really considered it nagging (aka “I told you so”. And now that I have so expertly diagnosed the problem, I leave the easy part to you: how to handle it! 😀

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      3. Working together led to each of us respecting the other’s style. I think for me to find someone as dedicated and as hardworking as my husband for the bakery would have been a challenge. On the other hand, we did come out stronger.

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  9. It’s a nice-looking garden wall, but did it need to be so tall? Are you planning on using the same soil, or are you going to add soil to bring the floor level up closer to the the top of the wall? How tall will the flowers be?

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    1. The reason behind the project was my husband constantly blowing grass clippings in the previous ground level bed. Over the years it choked out all the flowers. We’ll fill this one with soil when it’s finished for a raised bed.

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  11. I’m not even picking a side in this. I do know that if I don’t ask for her help, Cathy stays out of the way. If I’m shouting and swearing, that just keeps the pressure down. Same works the other way. There’s still fighting, as always, but it’s nothing that won’t cool down after dinner.
    That’s some good looking stone work. I hope mine comes out as well.

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