Just when you thought I couldn’t get any stranger…

16 May 2009

… I tell you about my exciting measuring stick.

You see, I have an exciting measuring stick. I designed, painted and varnished it myself and it is pretty. Having finally accepted a couple of years ago that the gardening books were telling me to plant things x inches apart for a good reason, I needed a measure for the garden. Until now though I’ve just been using my snazzy old My Little Pony 12″ rule that I’ve had since I was about 6. But I wanted something more specialist. Something that had 4-inch divisions on one side for example, so that I no longer had to remember my 4 times table when planting seeds. Something that was 18″ long, so I no longer had to mark the ground with my finger while I moved the ruler along six inches, because, DUDE, those are valuable seconds spent bending down when I could be standing up, drinking a margarita instead.

So now I have an exciting measuring stick. It’s 18 inches long and on two sides there are one-inch divisions, one side is marked into 4″ divisions and on the final side there is a one foot mark. I used it when I planted my seeds at the beginning of the month and can report to you now that it is The Finest Creation Ever.