HA! HA HA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
One of the best parts of gardening (besides harvesting and preserving and eating and well, everything!) (OK, not everything… weeding sucks. And thinning. That’s no party either.) is seeing the first seedlings pop up in the garden bed. The lettuces, spinach, swiss chard, cucumbers and the beets are ALL sprouting!! HEEEHEEE!! Cut to me doing a little jig in front of my 9′ x 6′ plot. If you can call it that. No matter! I have sprouts, MY garden has sprouted!!! Now if the only the zucchini, carrots, green onions and potatoes would come up… so exciting! I’m telling you, to me it’s like opening presents. Thank goodness for square foot gardening, or I wouldn’t have been able to wrap my mind around growing so much on such at tiny piece of dirt. Now if I can just keep the kids and the dog out of that area for a while. Yeah, I can’t see that happening either.
I found this little gal hanging out on some mint that has gotten pretty unruly, as people who have grown mint know, is normal. It pretty much takes over, so if you aren’t going to be vigilant, don’t plant it, unless you really like it. When my dog was a pup, we had a large patch and that’s were she would like to go to do her business. Yeah sorry, I went there, but it’s true. Whenever she came around smelling like spearmint, we knew what she had been recently up to. Ugh. The smell of it triggered that memory for a long time. I’m so happy it doesn’t anymore, since I LOVE mint. I apologize again, wholeheartedly. Moving on…
There have been quite a few ladybug sightings in our yard since it has warmed up, and I’m thinking of picking up a praying mantis ootheca (oh yeah, it’s a word) from the garden store to add to my beneficial bugs list. Not to mention they look cool. Really cool. Heh-heh, I like bugs. Except for gnats, and mosquitoes… well that’s a whole another list!
The Suburbanatrix 
Ohhhh! I am so so so jealous! The only things coming up in my garden are chives and the rhubarb is just visible below the dirt. I cannot even start to plant for another month or so. Jealous. Jealous. Jealous.
Happy Anniversary! Hope you had a great time out without the kids. That is pure bliss.
Do be too jealous since something (I can’t even guess) attacked one of my grey zucchini seedlings while I was away helping put up sheet rock in my brother’s new house today. I had a fit when I saw it. Completely cut to pieces. Thank goodness there was another that came up around the same time. Back-up seeds make complete sense now. Thank you so much for the anniversary salutations. It was such a great grown up time!