Rock on, Hyde Park (Get warmer, Chicago)

[evilhippo]

Every once in a while someone will find it necessary to ask me "Why don't you move out of Hyde Park?" People just don't seem to understand the charm of this neighborhood (when you ignore everything having to do with the University...) I never really had a good summation of why I feel so at home here. I pretend that it has to do with it being a

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[stupid_drawings]

Who cares where you live? Nice plants!

[evilhippo]

Most of the people who give me a hard time about Hyde Park went to the UofC with me and hated the neighborhood because none of the students ever get to leave it. I leave it every day and come back to chill, and it's great.

I'm proud of the plants already, and I had barely anything to do with them. I can't wait until I actually have a tomato curtain hanging down to my porch, though. That's going to be fun. (Provided that tomato perks up and stops being angry with me.)

[stupid_drawings]

Tomatoes are really hard to grow. I used to have better success with cherry tomatoes. I worked on a farm for a summer and their organic tomatoes all got blossom end rot. (I've had a lot of odd jobs)

[evilhippo]

Last time I grew them I got a plague of bugs, and then tomato blight. I think I got maybe one tomato. This is my first time growing my own cherries, though, which is weird because I love cherry tomatoes and really should've done them to begin with. Hopefully at least one of the two will hold up.

[stupid_drawings]

They seem to hold up better.