Prom!

Well today is my senior prom which is all rather exciting, but I'm not such a fan of dances. It'll still be a blast though and if you're lucky I might post a picture of myself and the date.

In gardening news, the peas have sprouted and look rather weird. I've never grown peas before so this is interesting. The first planting of lettuces are approaching leaf lettuce size and I might be robbing a few leaves for my tacos that I'm having for lunch. Mmmm that sounds really delicious does it not? I'm not sure if its allowed to steal from head lettuce or romaine, but oh well I plan on doing it anyway.

I hilled the first set of potatoes that basically just shot up out of the ground like nobody's business. The carrots have finally sprouted and I can see that I was a little bit disorganized in my planting. There will be like 5 inches of no carrot and then suddenly three on top of one another. I guess I'll have to thin those out which makes me sad. Also, the cucumber seeds I started have sprouted and I just can't wait to get my hands on some fresh cucumbers for cucumber salad and homemade pickles. I like using Mrs. Wage's (I think) kosher dill mix. I just pour it over top and refrigerate and the pickles are absolutely delicious. I'm also very excited for one of my favorite recipes that I'll get to enjoy 100% homegrown in 1.5-2 months. It goes like this:

New potatoes with the skins on, halved or quartered
Fresh rosemary
Fresh peas, shelled or sugar snap
Butter

Now that I think about it the butter will not be homegrown. But all of the vegetables are in the ground so assuming no catastrophe occurs we'll get to enjoy that soon (ish). Hey I think I'll post up my essay about hydrogen power. For all of you people that dream of clean energy, this paper is a tantalizing story of a new technology from an up-and-coming firm from Silicon Valley. I think I'll go put that up in a second post after lunch.

Peace!