Who Needs an Outdoor Garden, Anyway!

[abracanabra]

It is supposed to snow this week.

Halloween hasn't even passed yet!

That said, the leaves are turning color, I've turned on the heat in the house, and I'm more eager than ever to work from home as much as possible (me and the cold, we've got a long-standing grudge match that came to a head last winter). Now, some of you know that I sometimes procrastinate and schedule long-term personal projects in ways that are not exactly ideal.

To make a short story shorter, I've got three tomato plants, an ever-larger spider plant (thanks, susanofstohelit!), and a palmetto (or whatever those small palm tree-like houseplants are called) on the pantry countertop next to the window, and there's another three tomato plants lurking in the library. Two of the plants have walnut-sized green tomatoes on them.

Well, if nothing else, I like the unique green scent of tomato plants. And the cats get to pretend that they are wild jungle cats and lie in wait for each other beneath the greenery.

Comments

[brent-woodfill.livejournal.com]

It's supposed to snow? Jesus--the leaves haven't really started changing here in Nashville yet.

I mean, I love Minnesota, but that's a bit nuts.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, it is.

Minnesota people are also confused by this.

[brent-woodfill.livejournal.com]

You know that sense of foreboding that you get whenever winters are exceptionally good? like that nature is somehow going to get even with you for making things too pleasant? I understand that it's been exceptionally mild the last few winters. Maybe it's time to reap the whirlwind, so to speak.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Bite your tongue!

Sure, it's well and good for you out-of-towners to dare the wrath of the Minnesota winter....you don't have to (what was the phrase?) reap the whirlwind!

[brent-woodfill.livejournal.com]

I shouldn't have spoken so quickly, as the whirlwind seems to have followed me home. It's 47 degrees here. I thought that the South was a safe place to mock Minnesotans, but I guess I was wrong.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

There is no safe place to mock Minnesotans.

Except Minnesota...'cause here, it makes no difference.