It's the messiest process. When I cook a big meal or bake something yummy, I manage to use every dish, utensil, and bit of counter space available. When I garden, I cover every inch of me in dirt and spread all my tools across the yard. I'm not sure how it happens. It just does.
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Ditto! Often the kitchen utensils end up out in the yard, too! Like kitchen shears -- I am constantly buying new ones because they end up in the garden, get left there, and rust or break!
Ha ha -- you're right -- we've managed to lose two pairs of kitchen shears to gardening just this spring. Gloves, too. The dogs LOVE to steal our gardening gloves when we're not looking and bury them in the wooded area in the back where we can't ever find them!
This made me smile as it sounds just like me :)
I do the exact same. Tools everywhere, dirt head to toe. Plastic pots all over. And I'm so tired by the end that I don't want to clean up.
My husband says cleaning up after me in the kitchen is a huge chore. How do you use so many pots, he asks!
To use the gardening idiom, we are like two peas in a pod. Wait... your husband cleans up after you? Jealous!
Yahoo, I'm not the only one! Mike calls it "Cooking (or gardening) with wild abandon." We are not messy, we are passionate.
What a perfect way to refer to our cooking and gardening methods! I'll shall refer to them as such. Though I can already imagine my hubbie's response -- "Alternatively, you just might be messy."
ha ha! I am exactly the same way! I kind of 'mindlessly' go about things, but everything gets done, and though I tend to scatter things and be messy and think I'm kind of a perfectionist...and it all ends up looking good;-)