Household Developments
We harvested our first heads of broccoli! The plants didn’t grow into recognizable broccoli for a really long time, then suddenly, giant heads arrived! If you recall, we planted carrots, radishes, green onions, white onions, broccoli, and lettuce about five months ago. This was our first time growing vegetables. We will definitely grow broccoli again, we won’t grow radishes again (I mean, there’s only so much you can do with them!), and the jury is still out on the other types of veggies. They haven’t grown into the edible bits yet. But we’re having fun with it. I only wish that Sacramento City allowed poultry chickens. Now - I wouldn’t have a huge flock or anything! Just two or three gals to lay some eggs. A guy in a class of mine last semester had two layers, and it sounded really fascinating and fun to me. Oh well, it’s illegal within city limits, so that won’t be happening for us any time soon.
In other home-front news. I thought you might be interested to see what we ended up hanging on that big blank wall in the dining room. There was actually a lot of drama surrounding these art pieces. I didn’t tell you about it when it was going down, because nobody reads blogs to get depressed! But, this had a happy ending, so I will give you an extremely abbreviated summary: My grandma in Missouri generously gave me two Japanese paintings. They arrived in Sacramento via FedEx but were never delivered. They were suddenly classified as “Damaged, Return to Sender”. Yadda yadda yadda drama drama drama, the package arrived back in Missouri - EMPTY. I spent hours and hours and hours riding many butts over the phone, and after three weeks, my art magically turned up in the FedEx Lost and Found. So in summary - I have them now, have inserted new glass, and although I had given up all hope, they are now hanging in my dining room where I had always envisioned them. (And who knows if the burglar would have taken them, so maybe it was good that they weren’t at our house when they were supposed to be??) Hooray for happy endings!
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How wonderful that the paintings turned up in the lost and found! I think they look great in your diningroom!
And wow, I’m very jealous that you can talk of growing veggies in February! Broccoli is one of my favourite vegetables.