Clean Blue Cleaning rags will do for a mask if you tie two together for each person

My son-in-law wanted to buy tomato plants at a Farmer's market today but they only had things like Cactus plants and house plants. So, we had to go to Home Depot which still had some vegetables organic plants like Tomatoes of various kinds and squash, zucchini, Spice plants, watermelon Honey dew melon and the like. We had our gardener built us a 4 foot high raised bed out of redwood. I wanted to use 1/2 inch plywood but my daughter said that could pollute the earth from the glues in the plywood. and she is right. However, I live up where the redwoods grow and I try not to use redwood because there aren't many left of them. As it was whatever redwood 2 inches thick we used for $8.75 a square foot so the redwood 4 foot by 12 foot raised garden bed was about 600 dollars just for materials not including organic topsoil and wire in the bottom with plastic mesh to keep out the gophers.

I learned something from the gardener who has worked for my wife's family since 1979 here in Santa Barbara. I thought that the gophers were eating the bark off our citrus trees but he said it is the rats in the forest that are doing this and he said he would get rid of them before they kill the lemon and tangerine and orange trees so hopefully he will be able to do that here in Santa Barbara. We already lost many avocado trees here during the drought a few years ago. There is still one avocado tree but it doesn't have a mate so it doesn't bear fruit. Also, Avocados need much more water than citrus trees do.

IF you come to California Guacamole from Avocados is part of the culture here (guacamole and corn chips and salsa).

Another funny thing that happened is that we forgot our masks and in California at least, you can't go into ANY store without one now or be in public without one around people. So, he had to wear my wool Pendleton shirt around his face which I tied around his neck with the arms of the wool shirt in order to buy from Home Depot some blue cleaning rags and we were able to take two of these and tie them together to make one mask each (in other words 4 cleaning rags to make two masks to wear) because Home Depot was sold out of Masks of all kinds (a lady working there said they donate their masks to the local hospitals so doctors and nurses don't die of coronavirus).