It is another beautiful wintery-sunshiney day and another day at home with sore throat. This not going to work is really very relaxing indeed and has done quite magical things to my stress levels.

I just went outside to visit the plants and found some rather amazing things, despite our best efforts at neglect in those cold, dark months:

It’s our first pea pod! Truly, it was all I could do to not rip it off and chow down on the peas. All except four of the 20ish pea plants we originally had didn’t make it.

Then I looked around at the tomato plants! These have proved a little more hardy than the peas, but flowers! Oh my god! The excitement!

And sage! who knew that it grew pretty flowers?