I'm still in my hometown in Northern Ontario - the weekend was for fun, but the week is for work :( I'm pretty swamped in all my work stuff and am sitting in a hotel room overlooking an indoor swimming pool, so I'm dreaming of my father-in-law's tomatoes again. I'll be stopping by tomorrow for another steal off the vines.

I was looking through the pictures from the weekend. I have always dreamed of having a greenhouse like this. And when I went to the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens in 2004 and saw this, it nearly made by brain explode with delight. My thoughts and dreams of a greenhouse are a little ambitious. So what's a girl to do? Um...nothing. Seriously, nothing. I'd built up my expectations of a backyard greenhouse SO high, that there was no way that I could have ever have built something that was just right.

And then I saw the one that Stan built. He built it with his pal in an afternoon with some 2x2s and some plastic sheeting. But, it's got everything the other greenhouses have, everything you need in a greenhouse - shelter, light, air, controllable temperature. The plastic sheeting gives a really nice light inside the house - kind of like overcast days gives you better pictures just because the light is even. The roof is adjustable up and down to adjust the temperature. The shelves inside give enough room for delicate plants. And the plants inside are indeed delicate. Since they aren't blown around in the wind, or pumelled by rain, the leaves on the plants are like tissue - so soft to the touch. These are the peppers that were on the shelf this weekend, but they've had tons of veg in there all summer. Yum!

So, lesson to me: don't wait for the PERFECT greenhouse, or the perfect garden, or even the perfect space to sew in, just jump in, get the essentials going, move forward, and the prettification can come later!