Yasaibatake's Blog

Flashback to Elementary School
Oct 30, 2007 | 8:27 PM PST
Tags: sick , Bachelor's Buttons , lemon seeds

Sorry folks, I'm just too used to the small type I guess :) Though sometimes it's too hard for me to read when my contacts are acting up! Thankfully I just got a new box in, which means I have at least three months before battling the overly dry, itchy, blurry contacts again...anyways is this size better?

And another apology for being gone for...what now, a week basically? I've been sick. Again. What is this, the 8th time? In just a little over two months? The OT assured me that all new teachers go through this, and that after a year or two I'll build up such a tolerance for the common classroom germs that I will practically never get sick. I sure hope she's right, because this is driving me crazy! I need to buy stock in Halls cough drops or something....

Anyways, very little has happened. My Buttons are kinda tipsy...they like to fall over, but the stems are intact. it's like they are suddenly top heavy and there isn't enough dirt to hold them up or something. I'll try transplanting them into another pot (which I'd been looking at doing anyways, if you remember....well, if i remembered to tell you! now i can't rememeber)  and maybe i can get them a little more stable then.
My grandparents were in town this past weekend to visit with my brother since it's his senior year of high school. They both grew up on farms and they were the ones that had the big ol' garden to feed all 6 of their kids, so they were very interested to see my little pots. They weren't really sure why I would grow only four little strawberry plants ("that won't be enough for even a handful of strawberries" they said, puzzled at my space-saving logic) and were equally impressed with the white pines....I think, since they have really only gardened/farmed for the sake of feeding their families, they didn't really understand why I wanted to grow a tree that would produce nothing they would eat. But they were trying to support me, and I appreciate that fact at least.

I do have one new addition! well, two, kinda. My boy and I went out eating with my grandparents and my granddad pulled the lemon seeds out of the lemons that came with his water. He gave them to me and told me that I could grow just about any seed, no matter where it came from, so I should try growing those two seeds. I thought I remembered reading about someone on here who had done this before, some night when I was reading lots of blog archives, so I decided to try it. They're currently sitting in wet paper towels in a clear glass on my windowsill...you know, like how you used to sprout seeds in elementary school science class? I figured why make a whole new pot with dirt and everything if they aren't even going to sprout, right? So I'll let them sprout there if they want to and then I'll put them into a pot.