Springtime seems like an appropriate time for new beginnings. So here we are!
*ahem*
Or, at least, here I am, and hopefully some of you potential readers out there will join me soon so I don't have to listen to my own voice echoing through the blogosphere...
Anyway, back to the beginnings. (But wait - isn't that where we are? Oh. Right.) New beginnings are everywhere! Here in Texas, spring starts early. Most of our spring wildflowers have long since gone to seed. The trees are leafy and green and the temperatures are now regularly in the 90's. (Though, on a bike in the hottest part of the day it certainly feels like, oh, I don't know, a billion degrees.) Plants are well on their way to producing vegetables, especially if you're not tardy like us and planted them at a more reasonable time than, um, a week or two ago. But, that said, we have our very first little vegetable!
This lovely little green guy is a hot red cherry pepper and will, eventually, be a little round, red pepper about 1.5" in diameter. Yay! He's only one of three or four varieties of peppers we've got growing in big pots lining the front walkway.
Another thing we're growing: zucchini! Because you can never have too many zucchinis. (OK, some people will disagree with that...) But I love them! Enough to warrant my mother giving me The Classic Zucchini Cookbook a few years back. And with 225 squash recipes, I think we can handle a couple zucchini plants, despite us being a little two-person, two-kitten household.
So, welcome!
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