Following a planting plan has been one of the major hurdles I’ve had in my gardening life.
I’ve been following the yellow brick road through the AutoSketch forest, where apple tossing tree symbols and a wicked witch of the west (the instructions, not my instructor), cackling ‘You must follow these directions exactly, my little pretty!’ tried to thwart my progress to the Emerald City (completing the AutoSketch training module) and my meeting with the Wizard (completing the drawings for Lesson 3 of my landscape design course). The good witch, Glinda, was right. Ruby slippers did not let me down. Yes, I had a slight setback – the witch’s flying monkeys swooped down and threw a slight hitch into my computer when I was installing the pdf writer necessary for converting the skf files of AutoSketch to pdf files. But my trusty traveling companions– the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, that lovable Cowardly Lion, and of course Toto (I’ll leave my family members to guess who is who) – came to my rescue and let me be so I had time to complete lesson 3 before the hourglass ran out. And in spite of the witch’s roadblocks, and the Professor/Wizard’s hot air balloon releasing into the stratosphere unexpectedly early, my ruby slippers brought that little bit of magic that allowed me to find my way back to Kansas … which, in my case, involved turning the page to lesson 4.
