Monday, March 4, 2013

Things I love about gardening

Every year I plant a handful of plants and call it a garden. Basically, I grow pizza and salad ingredients -- basil, tomatoes, bell peppers, lettuce and whatever else strikes my fancy. If I could find a mozzarella tree we would be in business. This year I decided to start a few seeds indoors before the weather was reliable outside.

Apparently the cat approved.


Planting seeds from the garden, you can never be sure what will grow.
I don't know what's up with her lately. Notice how she didn't run away as I asked her what she was doing and then went to fetch the camera. This is despite the fact that she pretty much runs away whenever I enter a room she occupies.

Don't worry, I won't be inviting any of you over to eat the lettuce under her butt. She ate what she didn't crush.
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  1. Pueblo girlMarch 4, 2013 at 6:32 PM

    At least she's only sitting on them. My dog has the habit of adding a consonant.

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    1. ChrisMarch 7, 2013 at 9:12 AM

      That was actually my first concern about bringing big pots of dirt into the house, but they don't seem to know what to do with it. Other than sit on it and eat the contents, that is.

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  2. JaneMarch 5, 2013 at 9:31 AM

    See? Cats. Bleugh.

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    1. ChrisMarch 7, 2013 at 9:13 AM

      But look at the serenity on her little face. Cats have much to teach us, if listen we will.

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    2. JaneMarch 9, 2013 at 8:33 PM

      One of our cats eats the house plants, and then pukes them up periodically. Then he jumps around the only rug in the house, chasing flying things that don't exist. He's also obsessed with rubbing his hind parts on both me and the couch as he paces back and forth, despite how absolutely grossed out and crazy that makes me. But only if James is home. Otherwise, he leaves me alone, and I rarely see either of them.

      I'm not sure what that's supposed to teach me, other than that the cats are probably just as wary of me as I am of them. Difference being: they don't have to clean up after me.

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  3. daisyfaeMarch 6, 2013 at 2:29 PM

    i may actually give up on my annual "murder the herbs" extravaganza. always with the best of intentions...

    @pueblo girl: *snort*

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    1. ChrisMarch 7, 2013 at 9:15 AM

      The advantage of living in a semi-tropical environment is that anyone can look like a gardener. At least this time of year. Once the sprouts get a little bigger I can get them outside, and then all I have to do is watch and try to keep the squirrels out of them.

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  4. I Wonder WyeMay 13, 2013 at 4:31 PM

    Would you pleeesesseee plant Scout and Vodoo some cat grass to nibblel?? You get what you deserve......

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