Sunday, May 01, 2011

Spring is in the air! (?)

We had another beautiful spring weekend here in Chicago. Sunny (for the most part) and mid 60's! FINALLY there are leaves on the trees out front! Which means we can open our windows and have a little more privacy.

We took this opportunity to start our "garden" on the back deck. Tom's friend Ben sent us some chili pepper seeds and a packet of Basil for me (since that's the only thing I seem to be successful in growing). As luck would have it, our (loud) neighbor moved out yesterday (yay!) and left his giant planter that was out back (double yay)! We bought new soil and Tom planted the pepper seeds....remember how big his plant got last year? We've got high hopes for these little seeds in this planter!!

Tom will be taking orders for his homemade Hot Sauce as soon as we see the first sprout ;) I also bought a cilantro plant and I'm pretty sure it's not already 97% dead like the one I bought last year (and unsuccessfully tried to nurse back to life).

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