After putting some thought into it I've decided to change the title of my blog from Gigundogarden 1.0 to Just This Side of Rural. When I sit back and think of the things I'm interested in as well the things I've been studying I find there's a lot more to it than gardening. On a Facebook group the other day I made the statement that gardening for me is more than growing plants. It's about creating a space.
When I think about it that's really what we're trying to do here is create a space as opposed to a place or an eclectic collection of things that grow. We are trying to grow ourselves. So in a sense this is a garden but it's a personal garden of dreams and wishes and endeavors. That may or may not have a great deal to do with tomatoes and flowers. It does however have a whole lot to do with building things and crafting. It has a lot to do with cuts and scratches and smashed thumbs as well as poorly formed tan lines. It's a place where not a lot gets done but accomplishments are made nonetheless and those accomplishments are measured by the nobility of the endeavor as opposed to the finished product.
So here we sit on our second hand furniture that sits inside of a trailer that sits on city lots merely twenty feet from the city limits. Those twenty feet are everything to us. Those twenty feet make all the difference in the world. Those twenty feet give us freedoms that those on the other side of the street will never know. Those twenty feet along with our repurposed building, fruit trees, and home made atrocities create a sort of hillbilly Wabi Sabi where my tea is ice cold beer and my geisha is also the best partner in crime a guy could ever ask for.