This may look like just an empty planter on the lonely front deck, but if you look carefully you can see the first shoot of our many pea pods that we planted several weeks ago. It has been so long that we were beginning to suspect that they all died from the snap frost and non-stop rain that we’ve been having this Spring. There are now a few little tendrils from his 19 other brothers in the planter and their 36 sisters in the backyard, so hopefully the kids will have some produce that they can pick later in the year.
This one we call the “Demon Seed”.
Shaynee and the kids found a little shoot coming out of the ground, so they dug it up en bloc and put it in a planter. From the second (previously unknown) pod, you can see the alien appearance it has as they grow. And even in our sunlight-starved kitchen window, the thing is growing like crazy. But the first burp I hear or “Feed me, Seymour!” and it will have to meet an untimely demise.
Alton found a seed that was starting to sprout within an apple and he desperately wanted to plant it. So it is sitting in a pot just adjacent to this one. It is growing, but not nearly as quickly as the Demon Seed. I doubt that we’ll have apples by the Fall. Maybe by his senior year of high school.
This week was Alton’s “special day” at the Phinney Co-op preschool. He got to bring things to share with the class. So naturally he brought some Lego creations, his Rey-rey sweater(s) (now plural), and a couple of space related books – Moonshot and One Giant Leap. His space curiosity is fortunately expanding beyond just the Apollo missions. He’ll take anything that is rocket-related. Mars is capturing is interest (“The red planet!”) at the moment, though he also thinks Jupiter is pretty cool (“The gassy planet!”). They also baked muffins in class. Alton really likes to cook (he loves helping Grandma making meatloaves). We signed him up for cooking camp and space camp this summer, so he’s pretty excited for those.
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