In Our Spring Garden

There's a lot going on in the garden for spring. By our oregano and chives we planted six heads of lettuce, which are growing well.

My guy planted a bunch of brussel sprout plants for me (I love them) and they're really growing great.

I've used up all but three bunches of celery, which saves me a few bucks at the market every week.

The first cucumber just sprouted; these grow so fast we'll likely be having them in our salads this time next month.

We didn't know if the watermelon would survive winter, but it did and now it's flowering and throwing vines everywhere. Have to watch this one or it might take over the garden.

Ditto for the one bell pepper we were able to save from last summer. It's looking better now and has started budding.

We replanted the cosmic carrots, two of which sprouted within a few days, and more radishes, as they grow best and we love them.

Finally we have corn! We're going to try again to grow it because the first planting got flattened by hurricanes twice last year. Hopefully we do a little better with it this time.

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Stuff

After finding this Caron one pound skein of lovely peach yarn in my thrifted lot I raided my stash for two cakes of Mandala in Pegasus, which matches it perfectly. For practice and hand therapy I'm going to make another Worth Street Afghan with this free pattern , but this time I'll use the yarn that was recommended for it plus the one pound skein. I'm not quite ready to do the vintage/recycled linen quilt I had planned (still a bit too nervous about the idea), so I'm going to use some color therapy and make a quilt from these thrifted green fat quarters. I considered doing another Yellow Brick road patchwork pattern, but I might go with a split rail fence like this one.

Journal Find

This is a page from my 2010 poetry journal. My handwriting isn't the best, so I'll transcribe it: If my heart survives to tell all the secrets kept inside it will be an abalone shell in which the beauty did reside. But I think I will always be lost to the tides that rage in me . . . humbling and polishing . . . I don't write many self-portrait poems, but this one isn't too embarrassing. A bit overly dramatic, but the girl I was eleven years ago went through some tough times. I'm in a much more peaceful place today.

Watchable Farce

The k-drama Undercover High School is a series that brings a handsome spy to play a student at an elite private school where a legend about billions of gold hidden there persists. It's more silly slapstick comedy than anything, but has some surprising romantic and dramatic moments, too. Seo Kang-joon is one of my favorite Korean actors, and this is the first series he's made since finishing up his mandatory military service. He plays Jeong Hae-seong/ Jeong Si-hyun, an NIS agent who infiltrates a snobby elitist school to hunt down the gold. There are four urban legends connected to the treasure that he has to figure out, all under the too-watchful eye of his homeroom teacher, Oh Su-Ah (Jin Ki-joo) whom he eventually discovers was his elementary school love Oh Bong-ja (there's a lot of name changing in this series.) The hunt for the treasure is the highlight of this series, but the romance between the leads is cute, too (and not as taboo as you might think, given that...

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