Yeah. So I'm sitting up here writing this and emailing a friend in Chicago and totally ignoring everything that needs to be done. For instance, I need to get the girls packed for the weekend. I need to get myself packed for the weekend. It would be nice to leave Mike a decently clean house. Perhaps fill out the rest of this application for art classes for Sophia and somehow will it over to the Tower Grove art studio. Get the girl scout stuff in order and take it over to Susan (but I have no car and she is in Benton Park so that will have to wait, at least). It's one of those Classic Bridgett moments of mounds and mounds of things I must do and so I'm spending all my time playing computer solitaire. Just as an example. But Sophia has had a big homeschool day including a "theme" written about snow. And lunch is in the oven, so that's better than it could be, I suppose.
So what am I going to plant in the garden this spring? I've flipped through all the seed catalogs and haven't decided for sure yet, but I'm thinking that I'm not going to order anything. I have a couple packs of tomato seeds leftover from last year, and the seeds I saved from my tomatoes as well. I grow heirlooms so the seeds run "true" and do not un-hybridize. The garlic is on order already, although I could plant the flowers from last year. But I like to eat them, so I'll plant them new in the earliest spring. It's Osage Garlic and has a short season. Good stuff. So the garlic planted out in the yard, since the squirrels don't care, and the tomatoes in the cage. And...some hot peppers. The usual overplanting of basil. But this year I'm not experimenting and I'm not wasting space like some years I have. Because I know what that will look like if I overplant and then ignore it during the hot hot months of July and August.
As hard as it is to imagine hot hot right now.
Oh, and I guess I'll try cucumbers one. more. time. So that will be my nod to experimentation. I never remember my parents having a hard time with them. Here or anywhere. I don't know what my problem is. But I will say that I can grow a mean black tomato and that's what I'm going to concentrate on.
Now to figure out when I can get that old mulberry tree down to give me more light back there.
Did I mention that I'm leaving town tomorrow at 8:30 in the morning and nothing is ready yet? ;^) Ta.
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Oh! I'm surprised that I didn't know (Or knew but didn't remember? If so, bad me!)that you're going out of town tomorrow morning, given that I'm the Chicago Correspondence Culprit you mention and all. :-) Where are you going?
Clyde, Missouri--there's a community of Benedictine women there that I'm going to visit. I'm surprised I haven't mentioned this...
Ooo... Maybe you did mention this, earlier this week, but I guess I didn't realize it was this coming weekend. Hope it goes well and is very refreshing!
Is it wrong that every time I read the name "Clyde," I think of Clint Eastwood?
"Right turn, Clyde!"
1. You make oven prepared lunch?
2. You plant garlic?
3. There is more than one kind of garlic and you can eat the flowers of one of them?
4. Tomatoes can be black (and still ok to eat)?
All I can say is wow. I mean WOW.
Wheat: I had no idea that was Clint. What movie is that?
Cedar:
1. sometimes. It is cold here and hot lunch sometimes seems good. It was tater tots and grilled ham&cheese--we're not talking health food.
2. Yes
3. Yes--there are two general types (hard and soft necked) and several varieties.
4. YES. Yum. They are russian heirlooms for the most part, and they are a dusky brown when they're ready. Fun names like "Black from Tula" and "Black Krim"
:^)
Mmm. Tater tots!
It's from this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077523/#comment
(Ooo! Directed by the pleasingly and intriguingly named "James Fargo"!) I've actually never seen this movie. But it was apparently very popular in Salt Lake City---they used to show promos for TV airings of it all the time. The promos always featured the scene where Clint punches the chimp while saying "right turn, Clyde!" Why that would play so well in SLC, I have NO idea...
Mmm. Tater tots!
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