A lot of my recent days seem to be caught in daydreams. I have a habit of thinking of something and then spending hours researching it online and figuring out what I would do with it, or how I could shape my life around it, or how it would fit in to the grand schemes of silly ideas I have.
Recently I have been thinking about school. I have been going on and off for the past three years to the local community college taking art classes and general ed. I am pretty close to being able to get my associates degree, which would be nice to have, but then where would I go from there? Bachelor degree? What would I do with that? I have no real intentions to work outside the home, and I hate the idea of going into debt for my education. I sort of like the idea of going to the community college forever, and don’t feel I need a degree to better my life (at least at this point). This drives my dad mad of course, but hey, it is my life.
Anyhow, on to what I have been reading up on lately–nursery technologies! They offer all sorts of horticulture certificate programs at a neighboring community college. I have been so fascinated lately with growing things, and actually looked into the programs a few years back. I have talked to Russ about it a lot too, and he likes the idea. If all I ever do with the knowledge I gain from the classes is for my own personal use, either now on my little balcony, or in the future when we have enough land to do some serious plant/vegetable growing, then I will be happy.
Besides reading up on different horticulture classes that the school offers, this weekend I have planted a few things. Friday I bought three different kinds of mint (I could not find mint seeds anywhere this year!), chocolate mint, spearmint, and pineapple mint. I had never tasted the chocolate or pineapple mint, but both were delicious. Russ and I agreed that the chocolate mint was our favorite of the three. Yesterday we also transplanted some tomato plants that my neighbor was growing in a pot into a small plot of land on the side of our complex.
On Friday when I bought the mint I also bought some lovely lavender, which I re-potted that afternoon. Before I had done much research on lavender I had purchased a packet of lavender seeds at the market, and tried several times to get some lavender started. I later found out through my gardening books that lavender is extremely difficult to germinate. I decided to buy a small lavender plant at the garden store, though I still really want to succeed in starting lavender from seeds….just for my own stupid self satisfaction.
I hand washed my work gloves after planting the tomatoes and left them to dry on our fence. It was unintentional but it sort of looks like the left glove is flipping us the bird. Sorry, I promise it wasn’t on purpose!
While we were working on replanting the tomatoes I had two loaves of bread rising. The recipe I followed was a new on. I have had a bit of bad bread luck recently, but these loaves turned out beautifully.
