SCOURING SKYMALL FOR GREAT PRODUCTS

I was traveling last week for work and by the time I got home on the weekend, I didn’t feel like doing much. It’s funny, the garden is actually looking pretty good these days. Although I know there will be a ton of work to be done getting it ready for winter, I’m not ready to stop enjoying what it is right now, even though I know it means I will be spending some very cool weekends making up for lost time later.

One bit of housekeeping before I get to the fun. I’ve updated all of the 2014 Gardener’s World television show links on the Favorites page. One of the youtube posters I was getting them from started taking down the older episodes so I had a few bad links in there. Hopefully he’ll stop doing that and as of now everything should work. If you’ve been too busy in your own garden to watch, maybe now’s a good time to catch up.

So I don’t have any gardening information for you today (although I did take a few pretty pictures while I was in Annapolis that you can see on my Instagram feed). What I have instead is a plane ride’s worth of hard blogging work, also known as …

LET’S MAKE FUN OF STUFF IN THE SKYMALL CATALOG

Waiting to finally be beamed up to the mothership.

 I beg of you, please DO NOT add a “touch of outdoor whimsy” in the form of a faux stuffed and mounted squirrel.

“Looks like a fireplace … ” Nope, it doesn’t really look anything like a fireplace. It looks like an alarm clock that will wake you up by burning your fingers.

I don’t even know where to start with this, but I particularly liked the suggestion that a flask would be a good thing to keep in this special garter.

Since when do they sell boats that cost $85,000 in Skymall? And really, you know that the fun lasts exactly one time when you scare the crap out of someone and end up on youtube. Then you’re just left with a very uncomfortable and possibly unsafe boat. “Discounts do not apply.” Damn, and I had a Skymall coupon!