Planting seeds
Today, for the first time this year, it felt like spring here in the DC suburbs.
We live in a townhouse, and have a tiny little backyard, just big enough to hang our hammock when the weather gets warm. I plant tomatoes each year, even though there’s not really enough sunlight for them to thrive. This morning D. found a packet of carrot seeds I had bought last year, so we planted those. I repotted our houseplants too, giving them fresh dirt, and apologizing to them for forgetting to water them on a regular basis.
I plant seeds pretty much the same way I write to Congress — because I believe in the process, without expecting too much in the way of a harvest.
We’ll see how everything does.
March 20th, 2005 at 8:08 am
That’s how I felt yesterday too. But then I wake up to 1/2 inch of snow on the ground and more coming down.
Winter will end someday, right??
March 21st, 2005 at 11:12 am
Chip, I read your comment and was feeling smug about living in the mid-Atlantic. And then we got caught in a hail-storm yesterday afternoon — in the 2 minutes it took us to run for the car, we got totally soaked and the boys were quite freaked out.