Pssssst!

Don't look now - but things are actually growing - OUTSIDE - all by themselves!


No blog last weekend partly because I was busy being OUTSIDE and then was too tired to move when I finally came inside.

At Mom and Dad's place, I experienced something new. Temps were in the 70's and very sunny - enough that I was uncomfortably warm. aaaaaaahhhhh! But there was still a lot of snow on the ground. And it was hard snow too - not melty, mushy snow. In some places, there were still maybe 8 inches of snow left, but there was no cold radiating off of it at all. Very, very weird.

In other news, the little vegetable garden in my living room is actually growing! In fact, as the pictures below will show, the Bush Garden Beans kind of scared me a little. I swear to you, these pictures are only 24 hours apart.

I was so excited to see new baby beans juuuuust poking out of the dirt. Awww! They're growing!


But the next night, it was growing dark by the time I came into the living room and I walked past the plants not really looking at them and they startled me! I was actually a little freaked out and afraid to touch them.


What do they WANT?


Another day, I noticed they were leaning way over to find the sun, so I turned the pot around and left the room. ONE HOUR later, they were standing straight up. I could have watched them stand upright. Honestly - that's not natural.


Now I'm standing waaay back from the table to get the plants in the shot.

Phew! Now we know why the story was Jack and the Beanstalk, as opposed to Jack and the Basil, which evidently can't be bothered to start growing yet.

Wow, I'm kind of stretching for good blog material huh? Making you watch beans grow and stuff...I'll try to do better next time.