After kvetching that Facebook has become too much of a divisive forum for self-righteous diatribes, some friends suggested I go back to Livejournal as my primary form of social media. I'm game! So here I am. Hoping that this proves to be a sanctuary where I can connect with friends, talk about things we love and that make us happy, and stop ( Read more... )

The garden is starting to look less like  a patch of sorry seedlings, and more like something resembling something lush and green and leafy. Two of the magic bean plants have really taken off, but the rest sort of look yellow and dwarfed. While I was trying to figure out the mystery behind this, I discovered the poor dears had aphids all over them ( Read more... )

My magic beanstalks dance. Seriously. They wave their little arms around and do the hokey pokey. Albeit slowly... so that every time I look at them they have stems reaching out in different positions. They think I don't notice. But I do ( Read more... )

My greenbean plants grew twice their size overnight last night! I swear to gods. They really did!

Anyway, as promised... these are from just after we built/planted the veggie bed yesterday.

( Garden Porn! )

This weekend sure flew by. Saturday I went running on the aquaduct in the morning, which is ridiculously amazing. Like running through the forest with deer prancing along side you amazing. Seriously. I felt like I jogged myself into a Disney Dimension. Then home to do some cleaning (but not laundry coz it was too darn beautiful out and I had to get ( Read more... )