Two little sparrows decided to build their home in our garden box yesterday! I just can’t evict them, i think it’s so cute how they’re using our lettuce as a roof and everything. I even gave them some hair from my hairbrush and they used it in the nest!
That’s my pathetic little parsley plant next to it, by the way. I don’t actually have a green thumb, it’s all just a front.
This is the first real fruit from our little window box garden, although we’ve already taken a few leaves from the lettuce and basil plants for various meals. We’re pretty proud—we call the plants our babies.
Cherry tomatoes, romaine lettuce, thyme, parsley, oregano and basil.
Nathan built the window box and i chose the paint color. We planted the babies together and water them on days that nature doesn’t do so for us. We don’t have a proper watering can, so we use our cups instead.
I noticed today that our basil plant is blossoming. So pretty.
Lookie! I planted parsley seeds and they finally sprouted!! I’m pretty excited about this, as you can tell. I think usually this activity is a person’s first biology lesson as a four-year-old, but i don’t think we ever actually planted seeds individually at my school. This is the first time i’ve ever grown something from seed, and i’m probably just as thrilled by it as i would have been as a preschooler.
We’ve been out running, picnicking, going to shows and generally enjoying Spring. It’s wonderful, but i still can’t wait until summer so that i can stay out past sundown without a jacket – provided the mosquitoes aren’t too bad this year.
I had to stop running right after the last run that i posted here, because i’ve been experiencing some foot pain. My feet never hurt last year when i ran, so i don’t know if running is the cause. It may have been triggered by a massage i got several days before the pain started, but that doesn’t seem very likely. It remains a mystery. It seems lesser today though, so i continue to procrastinate on making an appointment with a podiatrist. It’s not actually my Achilles heel, it’s my bunion – and i’ve read enough to know that the only solution to bunion pain is surgery. Screw that.
We had a small housewarming party last weekend, which was great fun but far too abbreviated. We will begin the last third of our painting class tonight. The first color painting we worked on didn’t turn out so well… We were pretty unmotivated. Hopefully by the time the class ends i’ll have something pretty to post here again.
Nathan and i just celebrated our six-month anniversary last weekend, as well. I’ll spare you the details and just post a couple of photos instead. 
A love note on the refrigerator
Sorry, that’s what one professor or another used to call writing down or drawing whatever comes to mind without editing or censoring it. That’s what i plan to do now. Sorta.
The photo is of my new Paperwhites which Nathan bought for me a few days ago, for no particular reason. They’re lovely and still have their bulbs, but they get top-heavy when in bloom and fall over and stand back up again regularly. It’s quite beyond me.
Our oil painting class began last night. We’d been making bets with each other about the sex, age, and crankiness of the teacher, judging solely by the provided list of required materials. We figured male, middle-aged, fairly strict and moderately arrogant – or maybe that was just my bet. Turns out i was totally off – she’s young and quite nice. I’m definitely excited to start learning about painting technique, because although i do pretty well with dry media of all sorts, i’m clueless about paint.
Obama is President, hooray!!
Not a lot else to report. It’s still cold. I haven’t begun packing yet. I still have my job… I think. I still see English errors everywhere, but I’m feeling less enthusiastic about blogging them, because i see people whom i know damn well read my blog continuing to make the same mistakes. It’s good for a giggle at best, but nobody’s actually learning from me. And maybe that’s okay and it’s still worth doing, i’m just not sure yet.