ASPARAGUS

i am not a veggie eating person, not so much. actually, i'm not really into red meat & i hate fish & we eat chicken only a few times a week. i guess this makes me a carbo-holic? i like apples, also. & peaches. ANY-WAY! ((how did i get on the tangent? (btw: i recently made a little pact to myself to not delete large sections of posts that i write...i would have deleted something like that ramble prior to this personal pact, but i just want to see how it goes first...sorry blog stalkers, as judy crawford calls blog readers). ))anyway, i don't like most vegetables--BLECH!-- except asparagus (& several others, but i will let my ramblings stop now). so i want to grow it b/c it's so darn expensive most of the time.

i have been trying to buy asparagus roots for 3 YEARS! seriously. i am always too late when we get to the garden nursery...i frantically search around for the roots, plants, then seeds. then i ask 'where are your asparagus?' & they say "we just sold out yesterday" & then i cry. so this year i took matters into my own hands & didn't rely on a garden nursery to supply my needs. i ordered 25 roots from burpee (25 was the lowest amount...yes, if they take we are going to have gobs of asparagus! yum yum yum).

today they arrived! oh joyous! what? is it christmas again already? that's what it feels like, anyway. i was in the backyard playing with ms amelia who was refusing to take a nap (*frown*) & heard the ups truck stop in front of our house...i ran to the front--yes, leaving amelia on a blanket in the backyard where she is vulnerable to all the elements (read: griswold turds) & raced to pick up the box. beautiful! we plan on planting them saturday morning. my mom & dad also bought a bunch of asp. roots, so i think we have begun an unspoken competition. HA HA HA...i have the engineer nut on my side!

in more disgusting news: wes just discovered that he is GROWING GRASS IN HIS CAR. to explain...he drives my car from high school, a '95 geo prizm manual. it's pushing 200K!! anyway, this car has been through many many frightful things which i won't divulge right now. but apparently it has a window or roof leak lately which totally makes it reek in the car (poor millie had to ride in it last week). the window MUST be down when riding in this stink-bomb, lest you inhale toxic fumes. so awhile ago wes brought grass seed for the lawn & it spilled a bit on the passenger side floor....the rest is history! i can verify that yes, indeed, there are grass sprouts about 2 inches high growing from the car floor. seriously! we like the idea of being 'green' but...i think he is taking this too far, lol!