The Most Exciting Thing From Last Week

On Thursday evening last week, I ventured out to our postage-stamp sized garden with Rose #3 in tow (Rose #3 is always in tow!). We were browsing around - looking at the tomato plants, looking at the (pathetic) pepper plants, mourning the fact that our carrots did not sprout.

We planted about 8 cucumber seeds in mounds of dirt - as they recommend on the package. Given the size of the plant we got, I guess I should be glad that only one plant actually sprouted and grew. Still, I was worried that we wouldn't get any cucumbers bigger than my pinky finger.

That is...until we started moving the leaves around, and found...

Wait for it...

Wait for it...

The most exciting thing that happened to me last week...

A REAL CUCUMBER!!! My triumphant yell hearkened Rose #1 and #2 to my side, where we all admired its beauty, and then...



...we picked it immediately, took a photo, and then ate it. It was very, very tasty. I love it that you can eat garden cucumbers with the skin on. Yum!