The Happening

I think I have a bit of a buzz from the J. Lohr Chardonnay that accompanied Joe's lovely chicken Penang curry tonight, so apologies if this posting is not entirely coherent. The jasmine rice was so tasty Sam and Joe fought over eating the remaining bits stuck to the bottom of the pot. Best image of the night was Sam with a smirk of victory on his face as he stuffed big spoonfuls of rice into his mouth straight from the iron pot.

The vegetable sprouts have grown like they're on steroids this week. I'm convinced the pole bean plant grew 2 inches over dinner on Wednesday night. We started feeling like we were in a really, really bad M. Night Shyamalan movie so we put them out today and locked the doors. They're doing great in the sunshine although they still look sinister when the wind blows across them.

While Joe was busy tilling the soil, we headed out to Jo Ann Fabrics to pick up some crafty things to pretty up the garden. Sam scoped out the 40% off all garden decorations section and picked out a psychedelic metal purple lizard and a hot pink frog that we've installed in the garden. We also bought little rectangles of wood and lots of acrylic paint and spent the afternoon making vegetable markers.

We used the rest of the paint to make some fairly impressive works of art:

Crazy Animals, by Sam

Sam: This is part Spongebob guard worm (the green head), who guards against things from the dump, part prisoner (the horizontal brown part) and part crazy worm. The squiggly part on the right is a guard dog that can breathe underwater.

Crazy Person, by Sam

Sam: This is a crazy person, with dracula teeth and blood dripping out of his mouth. He's just set a couch on fire.

Jack the Robot, by Lily

Lily: This is a robot who's singing, "It's a sunny day, Yay! Me and my friends like to play, Yay! I'm going to play with my friends! We get to play ev-er-ry-dayyyyy!!!! Yay!!! It's sunny outside tooooo-daaay! Yay!

Princess Jesaina, by Lily

Lily: This is a princess saying no to a witch who made her face turn different colors.

Princess Petunia, by Sara

Sara, Lily and Sam: This is a princess who was turned to gold by an evil witch. She is sad because Prince Charlie left her because he was not a big fan of gold princesses. She found a new prince, Prince Walter, and she's happy now.

We've released Lily's ladybugs into the garden and hope they're enjoying their freedom tonight.

One more week of growing for the vegetable plants before we plant them in the garden!