Envy is only appropriate if the person one is envious of happened to be on top of things enough to be aware of all this earlier than oh, say late April. And had time to do anything about it any earlier than this weekend.

(sigh)

I just sorta had this vague idea this winter that, now that I have my own place, it would be really fun to try to grow stuff. Then I started trying to learn how to cook and I was all "must grow fresh herbs! and tomatos! and strawberries!' And then all of a sudden I realized it was not only warm but HOT and ppl starting posting pics of growing things and talking about growing things and I thought "hmmm...I should probably start growing stuff soon."

And then I finally started to do the research that I should have done months ago and I realized that I was already approaching beyond late when it came to trying to grow anything that was not already growing.

So now I have growing things, but only because I bought them that way. I have very little hope that the seeds I planted the other day will become seedlings*. But niece and nephew will still enjoy spritzing them with water a few times a day while I am away.

*with the exception of the APPLE TREE seedlings that I found already growing in the apple I was eating yesterday. those seem to be doing just fine. too bad I have no place for a grown-up apple tree.