How to Assemble a Cart, Smartie (Latest Revised Edition of Assembly Instructions for Muller's Smart Cart) Figure A. Handle (proving that any bent tube can be called a handle) Figure B. Legs (and any bent tube can be called legs) Figure C. Cross brace (with a bent tab, unlabelled, but you will figure it out without our help. Eventually.) Figure D. Little bags of unlabelled parts, except for the unique and obvious ones (haha. Isnt this fun?) 1. Attach the handle (figure A) to the legs (figure B), using the 2.5" bolts, ensuring that the nut is attached to the bolt with the plastic side facing inward. 2. Next, overlap the cradle with the leg/handle assembly and connect the "front" to the cradle using the pre-installed 2.5" bolts. What the hell is the "front"? Where the "handle" is or where your "neighbour" will be standing when he points out to you that the cross brace is installed backwards and upside down? Its always useful to define your terms, and what are all these "quote" marks for anyway? (You may be uneasy at this point: "Good") Read the "Special Instructions" before continuing. Special Instructions Dont expect that because this cart has only a few parts, that it will be quick and easy to assemble. In the interests of ensuring that you remain humble and clearly aware of how much your week as a wage slave really took out of you, the parts are labeled rather vaguely. On second thought, not labeled. The original instructions were typed up by someone who was expressly recruited, in order to show you the value of punctuation and formatting, by leaving it out. Remember hearing about the old radio joke in which the young woman fends off the bad man making unwanted advances ("Dont! Dont! Stop!! Dont! Oh, dont stop!") Yeah, well, ha ha. The person who wrote the instructions has also clearly assembled thousands of these "smart" carts and thinks the person who is having trouble understanding the instructions is an idiot (I know, I can see him rolling his eyes RIGHT NOW, you probably can too and he looks exactly like the math teacher you had in grade 10 who couldnt explain anything because HE already understood it. Only you are less cowed by his arrogance now than you were back then (even if you have been beaten down by life, and who hasnt? You never thought that assembling a $350 wheelbarrow would be your ultimate breaking point, did you?). Note that there is no picture of the assembled cart included in the instructions or in the packaging. That would be cheating. Dont bother looking for the Lee Valley catalogue: you gave it to the neighbour and theyre away this weekend. Remind yourself that you are not dyslexic and that it is unseemly for a fifty year old professional with a postgraduate degree to yell Olde English expletives in the backyard on a beautiful sunny afternoon. Besides, the next step is hysterics, drinking and falling asleep on the couch and then the next week will begin and the cart will still be in pieces on the patio and the crow (dont ask) or the raccoon (ditto) will steal the unlabelled parts and take them away forever. All will then be lost. On his return, the neighbour will laugh at you (not at all kindly) because after borrowing many garden tools you were finally in a position to confidently offer to lend him something and had offered it to him next week when hes back and *** knows you cant take the ******* week off to assemble the cart. Not to mention the fact that when he asked you if you had to assemble it yourself, he said, "****, hope you have all weekend!" to which you (poor innocent) replied, "oh, no problem, its not like it was manufactured in CHINA and you both laughed in mock horror at the thought. But that was another time, the good time. While you are practicing your good yoga teachers calming breath exercise, notice, suddenly that your husband/wife is no longer speaking the words of Despaire and Gloome that are their normal coping device in such situations (while you hyperventilate, not calm at all, because like Proust with the madeleines, you are filled with the horror of Bicycles That Came in Boxes. And, IKEA.) But, Calming Breath. Could this silence be the eerie calm before the storm? But wait. There is a curious peaceful quality to this silence. Do not, I repeat, do not, say a word while you become aware that your husband/wife, normally not the Assembler in the family, apparently recognizing your imminent mental Breakdown, begins to quietly and effectively identify what parts go where and assemble them into something. like. the shape of. a wheelbarrow.

I had this heavy frosted glass vase sitting in the laundry room collecting dust, so put it outside and threw a tuberous begonia in it. I had to watch how much I watered the plant (no drainage holes) but it was kind of unique. This year I found a small metal vase that was in the clearance section after Christmas, so I may try to use that. As for a plant that doesn't need much space for roots, perhaps "hens and chicks"? If the ornament is clay it might constantly dry out so you might like something that's drought tolerant. Else, portulaca may do well too. I bought this small clay "half pot" from the dollarama. It's like a small clay pot but cut in half with a flat side so you can hang it on a fence. Sort of great to use in an area where to want some color, but no room for a bracket and hanging basket. I wasn't sure what to plant in such a small pot, but portulaca worked very well. I had to water it daily during hot weather and the pot fell apart when I tried to empty the soil in the fall, but for a buck I couldn't complain. Glen

Rodney, you're looking at the best source I know of for information specific to Oklahoma. Fact sheet 6421, Controlling Weeds in Home Lawns, has good information about controlling specific types of weeds. I guess I'm skeptical about all those "weed and feed" products that I see in the box stores and garden centers, because unless you know what your specific soil needs are, it's easy to waste money on something that won't really help your particular lawn and control your particular type of weeds. Something that controls winter annuals will not control perennials and timing of the application is critical. Pre-emergents only work well if they are applied before the annual type weeds germinate, for example. I've also learned that most OK soils have sufficient levels of potassium and phosphorus. That means that all those products out there that contain P and K may be unnecessary; most of us only need nitrogen. Using those products only builds up levels of P and K, which is immobile in soil anyway. Nitrogen is not. In other words, nitrogen gets used up quickly, P and K don't. Micronutrients are also not lacking in most OK soils. So, we don't necessarily need those products that are marketed for the mass market. Like Miracle-Gro. There's just no one-size-fits-all solution for everybody in the country. That's why I'm so hot on soil testing; it's really helpful to know just what your particular soil is like and what type of amendments and fertilizers will work best for you. Good luck with your weeds and lawn! sara

I have both and must be an idiot with a wheel barrow. It always ends up dumping over the side. Since I love my wagon, it has held up for 10yrs and have only had to buy a couple of $5 tires for it. Could us a new paint job. Like the dump back, just raise the handle and out all comes. The one thing about the wagon is an open base, I put a layer of plastic sheeting is the contents is too small and could fall through. Which is something to think about if using it for weeds. A wheel barrow may be best with solid sides so the weed seeds don't get moved around on the ground.