Grow Your Own Nom
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xifengI worked in Lawn & Garden today, manning a cash register, which is likely what I would be doing if I transferred back there permanently. At least I get to be in close proximity to the greenhouse and see the sun and feel the breeze, though. More perversely, it has bred in me a desire to farm. Seriously, the Burpee catalogue has turned into Produce Pr0n in something like the past 18 hours. If I had a few acres, I would totally be growing a riotous orgy of produce. (And probably some flowers, but the garden that we had when I was growing up in Maryland is, for me, the standard by which all gardens are to be judged, and while the climate here isn't dissimilar, our yard here is shadier and some of the flowers wouldn't tolerate it very well. Inevitably, these are the flowers I'd most want. You know, stuff like roses and poppies. At least we have irises up in the backyard now!)
The lolmom has been talking about growing an herb garden on the windowsill for some time, and she has a book called Farming in a Flowerpot which she bought around the time she and my father were married (apparently in hopes of stretching a fewbucks on the grocery bill). Naturally, these two things were immediately taken to their logical conclusion and now we're all excited about growing honest-to-God FOODS in a very small space. (OMG YOU GUYS DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN GET SMALL CITRUS TREES? THAT PRODUCE EDIBLE FRUIT?? AND DWARF NECTARINE TREES???) Mom was, surprisingly, tolerant of my whining and crying for a lemon tree, but put her foot down on the nectarine-tree request. I may have to get one anyway, sneak it in, and lovingly tend it without telling her, if this proves a cost-effective solution. Also, I have not resigned myself to not!getting an orange tree, even though I recognize that my image of orange trees is shaped by seeing some sort of Grand Marnier or orange juice ad or something when I was a kid: glossy green foliage and gigantic orange globes.
I really miss having an apple tree; we had one in Maryland, which was great from the free-produce standpoint and less so from the lawn-cleanliness standpoint (our compost heap constantly smelled like cider because we'd chuck apples that had gone rotten into it, and we had to pick up fallen apples that we couldn't get to before my folks mowed the lawn).
At least we've learnt from mistakes made early in my parents' marriage (and a few I was around to witness and remember) and aren't planting corn, watermelon, or mint.
In less squeeful news, we have an unwelcome house guest, of the rodent variety. Mom found that someone had chewed through the raisin lid and quickly used her powers of observation and deduction to conclude that we had a mouse, as there were droppings everywhere and the damn thing got into everything. Why are movie-and-children's-lit mice cute and real mice are just a pain in the ass? More to the point, why is this dumbass mouse unaware that a cat lives here? Usually they're pretty quick to figure that out. Is it some sort of robo-mouse from the future? Also, why is Callice defective in re: fulfilling her evolutionary destiny, viz., hunting/killing/eating mice? Seriously, she's current on her shots, so it's not like the mouse can do a whole lot to her. Unless it actually is a robo-mouse from the future. I know from my highly scientific experiments that she actually is afraid of those.
Not much to report, otherwise. I never thought I'd really get all that into gardening, though I suppose producing vegetables follows naturally on my interest in cooking. (Side addendum:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
samanosukesgirl thinks I should not bahleet deliciouspastry when I'm done migrating fic, but that it should enjoy a second act as a food journal or something. Y/N?)
The lolmom has been talking about growing an herb garden on the windowsill for some time, and she has a book called Farming in a Flowerpot which she bought around the time she and my father were married (apparently in hopes of stretching a fewbucks on the grocery bill). Naturally, these two things were immediately taken to their logical conclusion and now we're all excited about growing honest-to-God FOODS in a very small space. (OMG YOU GUYS DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN GET SMALL CITRUS TREES? THAT PRODUCE EDIBLE FRUIT?? AND DWARF NECTARINE TREES???) Mom was, surprisingly, tolerant of my whining and crying for a lemon tree, but put her foot down on the nectarine-tree request. I may have to get one anyway, sneak it in, and lovingly tend it without telling her, if this proves a cost-effective solution. Also, I have not resigned myself to not!getting an orange tree, even though I recognize that my image of orange trees is shaped by seeing some sort of Grand Marnier or orange juice ad or something when I was a kid: glossy green foliage and gigantic orange globes.
I really miss having an apple tree; we had one in Maryland, which was great from the free-produce standpoint and less so from the lawn-cleanliness standpoint (our compost heap constantly smelled like cider because we'd chuck apples that had gone rotten into it, and we had to pick up fallen apples that we couldn't get to before my folks mowed the lawn).
At least we've learnt from mistakes made early in my parents' marriage (and a few I was around to witness and remember) and aren't planting corn, watermelon, or mint.
In less squeeful news, we have an unwelcome house guest, of the rodent variety. Mom found that someone had chewed through the raisin lid and quickly used her powers of observation and deduction to conclude that we had a mouse, as there were droppings everywhere and the damn thing got into everything. Why are movie-and-children's-lit mice cute and real mice are just a pain in the ass? More to the point, why is this dumbass mouse unaware that a cat lives here? Usually they're pretty quick to figure that out. Is it some sort of robo-mouse from the future? Also, why is Callice defective in re: fulfilling her evolutionary destiny, viz., hunting/killing/eating mice? Seriously, she's current on her shots, so it's not like the mouse can do a whole lot to her. Unless it actually is a robo-mouse from the future. I know from my highly scientific experiments that she actually is afraid of those.
Not much to report, otherwise. I never thought I'd really get all that into gardening, though I suppose producing vegetables follows naturally on my interest in cooking. (Side addendum:
samanosukesgirl thinks I should not bahleet deliciouspastry when I'm done migrating fic, but that it should enjoy a second act as a food journal or something. Y/N?)
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Date: 2009-04-25 02:33 pm (UTC)Awesome!
unfortunately, I have a terrible BROWN thumb. :(
All my plants die badly.
guh. mice. our studio where my parents live gets a lot of mice.
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Date: 2009-04-26 12:31 am (UTC)MICE!! omg.. they're cute but don't belong in the house. Osiris brings them to me as a gift.
(Mice are cut wut?)
Green thumb.
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Date: 2009-04-26 02:13 am (UTC)We have that problem also--Mom has been known to leave entire swathes of dead ferns in her wake--but hopefully with both of us looking out for the plants, they have half a chance.
Mice should die. DIE DIE DIE. Preferably in agony.
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Date: 2009-04-26 02:30 am (UTC)She does it because you're an incompetent hunter who would starve to death without her, clearly. XD
Only fictitious mice are cute. Real mice deserve no mercy.
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Date: 2009-04-26 02:40 am (UTC)Hmm.. paid accounts start at $5.. so, you can delete it, I wait 30 days for it to be purged and buy to to create a community for people who wish to post pastry recipes, because, honest and for true, that is a great name for a baking-related community. Up to you, of course.
She put one in my shoe and at my bedroom doorway. One time, she put one on my brother's bed.
I'm bizarre sometimes, and all mouses are teh cute. :D Likewise with spiders and snakes.
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Date: 2009-04-26 02:48 am (UTC)If you and your brother would just learn to hunt for yourselves, she wouldn't have to go to all that trouble. As it is, you could at least eat the mice she provides. Honestly. People. XD
I can deal with snakes and actually think they're cute. I don't like mice, but I'm not actually afraid of them (I am afraid of the rabies they might be carrying, which is why if I had a functional cat, said cat would be the first line of defense). Spiders, however...SPIDERS ARE THE DEVIL. KILL THE DEVIL. DDDDD:
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Date: 2009-04-26 03:08 am (UTC)MICE SOUP?? OOOO____OOOO
I often let spiders crawl all over me. C:
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Date: 2009-04-26 04:39 am (UTC)Mmm, delicious mouse tacos. Nom nom nom!
OH GOD, THANKS FOR THE MENTAL IMAGE. I WILL NEVER EAT AGAIN FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. DDDDD:
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Date: 2009-04-26 05:09 am (UTC)I'd rather have tomatoes than mouse soup or mouse tacos. D: And I abhor tomatoes. :P
Now BUGS are a different story.
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Date: 2009-04-26 04:57 pm (UTC)I ♥ tomatoes, but like everything else in life, they're not everybody's thing. Also, I'm not sure if an average mouse would make much in the way of a taco or a bowl of soup.
Most bugs don't bother me. Some do.
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Date: 2009-04-26 05:07 pm (UTC)Unless you're an owl?
I. Do. NOT. Like. Dragonflies.