The weather outside is frightful… December 9, 2008
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But I’m not singing about it. I don’t like this weather, not one bit. As pretty as it looks, it’s also quite dangerous to drive in these conditions. Though, thankfully, there weren’t too many accidents today. Oh how I wish this weather weren’t quite so cold, windy, snowy, dangerous, and annoying.
First snow of the year November 24, 2008
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First snow 2008
I always love the first snow of the year. It feels like a cleansing of the spirit. The clean snow seems to instill a lightness and freshness in my soul like few things can. The funny thing is that I really dislike winter. If I think about it, then I can say that it’s not so much as “winter” as a season that I dislike, but more the wind, ice, scary driving conditions, and the cold. But snow in and of itself is very beautiful. Sparkly, shiny, and clean; like a million little diamond lights.
Here is the view of furniture on my balcony.
A Green Thumb – not something I have June 23, 2008
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So I decided to give gardening another try. See, a few years ago when I actually had a yard and a garden, I killed a whole lot of hostas. Probably $300 worth of hostas. I didn’t do it out of malice towards the shade-loving plants; I did it to try to kill weeds.
After that disaster, I was really hesitant about any horticultural endeavors. However, I picked a bad year to start experimenting with growing things other than mold. 
See, another slight impediment to gardening is that I have no land. Seriously. I live in a condo in an apartment-style building. What I do have is a balcony, so I bought a few planters, an arm-load of seed packets and bags of soil. I planted the seeds right before Memorial Day and about 4 days later I saw some sprouting greennes in the planters. I was really super excited. I’ve never planted things that actually grew! Things were going really well, and I thought I finally broke the curse of the poisoned hostas. Since the flowers and herbs I picked require full sun, and for once I have southern exposure, I was really excited to see them grow. And then the mega rain storms happened. All my plants got flooded in their little containers. I had some tomatoes planted, and out of 2 packets, I have literally 2 little sprouts left. After the last round of storms, I had about 5 inches of soil dug out of the tomato planter. The winds were so strong that all that soil ended up against the side of the outside wall. 
Tomato is my favorite food, and I was really looking forward to having my own tomatoes. But not this year.
I still have a few things that weren’t completely destroyed, namely, some dill, cilantro, and basil are still growing. Oh, and Four O’Clocks. The container with the flowers has something growing in it, but I am not sure what.
I guess we’ll see what it all turns out.
