Mr. MacGregor's garden

we had a delicious fresh salad of baby garden leaves last night... pale green, purple-y green, speckled like robins' eggs, striped, tender, sweet and bitter... ALL PICKED FROM MY VERY OWN GARDEN. i felt like skipping over the clouds. finally! growing things from seeds *does* work.

now i am impatiently waiting for the peas to appear.


while i'm waiting, however, i am preparing the house for painting. scott and i picked out colors last night at home depot - and we didn't even fight about it! we picked "mood indigo" for the brick part of the house, "black suede" for the shutters, plain ole white for the trim, and "purple blanket" for the door. i am prittee excited to see what it looks like. hopefully not too too dark. or else people might confuse our house with Chez Munster.

my boss is away for the day. we celebrated by having egg-n-bagel sandwiches in the library. food in the library!! scandalous. now i am fooling around on the interwebs, entertaining myself. every once in a while I stare out my enormous office windows at the little sculpture garden outside. the grass is so green that i get butterflies in my stomach. the white azaleas are peeking out of their leaves, just barely blooming. tree trunks are dark with rain and bright with moss. i can't believe we finally have spring, after such a fucked up winter!

i just filed my taxes last week, but i have my DC return in my checking account already. huh??!! that was fast, alrighty. but even faster, i have it spent already. i ordered a pushy-clippy-old-fashioned lawn mower from amazon! on sale ($119) and free shipping; got pages of rave reviews from folks. it'll get here by may 15, and boy i can't wait. i've been using a weed wacker to mow the grass and it's a royal pain in the ass. i hope this works as well as promised.

maybe i'll wander around the building and kill some time until lunch. i mean, it's after 11:00? how can i start a new project now? :) it's nice to have a lazy day at work. they are so few and far between.