I'm home in bed today with a head cold, but it's the first nice day (weather-wise) in what feels like months. Head colds are pretty miserable (minus the reading and dvd watching in bed), but the window being open to let in the fresh breeze certainly makes it more bearable. And while I'm sure we're not out of the proverbial winter woods just yet, spring has always been my favorite season and I'm just as excited about it this year as ever. We moved here in October, so we basically missed all the pleasant fall weather with all the unpacking, house projects, taking observation of the fact that we just uprooted our entire lives, etc. I'm excited to get out and go exploring when the weather motivates me to do more than burn candles and drink tea while watching re-runs of Frasier. Not that I mind; tea and Frasier are two of my favorite past-times. And no, I'm not a 70 year old woman.
Anyway, this isn't really food-related at all, except for the fact that it reminds me how excited I am to start using the grill again and have more fresh veggies readily available. On a somewhat related note, I have started trying to grow my own herbs. To fully understand the magnitude here, you have to understand that I have the opposite of a green thumb. I have a 'kill your plant in 2.4 seconds' thumb. People say things to me like "oh just get basil and parsley, they're impossible to kill". Well, the last basil I had died in less than a week, and I have had this batch for nearly 2 weeks, and despite watering it NEARLY EVERY DAY, it's drying up. The cilantro also looks like I've been keeping it in a dark closet for months after it was attacked by a wild animal. Maybe I should take it as a sign that I'm supposed to support the local farmers market for my fresh herb needs...
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