Tuesday, 10 Jun 2008

We've had a couple of moderately sunny days in a row now (it must be a record!), and the garden is gobbling it up, after having had its fill of rain last week. The radishes are suddenly really radish-sized, and the greens are going great guns. I mentioned it before, but the broccolis are starting their crowns, and some of the peppers even have blossomed. But the winner for cute? The eensy weensy peas!

You can see just how small it is in this photo. It's so precious that I want to knit it things. I planted snow peas, the kind you eat pod and all. I like them better than real peas, plus those'll be infesting the farmers market soon. I can buy my fill from somebody there. Here is a shot of the veggie garden from this afternoon, in case you're tracking its progress, and here's one of the Brandywine tomatoes that I started from seed. It was younger than the other tomato plants I bought, so it's not taken off as quickly, but it does seem to be doing well. Whoop.

I rode my bike to the store today (to Starbucks, to be exact, because I had a gift card and needed more of that special coffee-making powder), and it was very satisfying. The gas prices really have put a fear in me about driving all over the place, and I think it's particularly acute because I DON'T need to drive to and from work every day. That makes driving seem that much more frivolous in my own life, and therefore that much more avoidable. The nearest co-op is 4.5 miles away, which is a perfectly good distance, so long as I have the time to spend getting there and back.

I think I might have to buy those bike baskets, after all. Really, they don't even have to save me an entire tank of gas before they've paid for themselves. And maybe I can strap a cat into each one and go on adventures!