Accidents: Both Happy & Fixed

So we were unintentionally growing sunflowers in our yard. It's mostly because Szechaun really likes to watch birds. See, we thought if we sprinkled some sunflower seeds on the back patio, it would make for a more interesting show.

It didn't work. Stupid birds.

Anyway, in the progression of this experiment, some of the seeds inadvertantly got into the yard (see also: swept there out of laziness) and, soon, began to sprout like crazy. We scooped some sprouts up back in March and stuck them in a pot and waited.

A couple of months later, we got this:

Hooray! Hopefully they don't get burnt to a crisp by the Arizona sun. Mike's dad tried planting some while he was here and they, well, they're no longer with us. But if these go south, it's really okay:

They just keep on sprouting in the yard randomly. We keep the seeds in the birdbath now. Szechaun's got good eyes. She can handle it.

Oh! And as for the "Fixed Accident": You can now comment. Apparently, when we were setting this thing up, we accidentally put on a privacy setting.

Sorry about that.

But Why? WHY? WHYYYYY?!?!?!?

We originally thought to start this weblog as a way to share with our family all of the super fun projects on which we spend our time. Sort of a, "Hey, Mom! Look What I Did!!!" in electronic format. It's a way to compare beer-brewing techniques with the father-in-law or show Mom your latest experiment in horticulture...which is great, since, by the time she visits, the cat will probably have killed a large fraction of the house plants.

And, frankly, we have waaaay too many projects and hobbies and experiments and adventures. And we have waaaaaaay not enough attention span. So this is also a unique way, for our own sakes, to log and keep track of all of our burning irons. And maybe the ones that got a little too cooled down. And probably the ones that got all rusty because we left them out in the rain.

Let's face it: we may not even keep up with this weblog.

But we're sure excited about trying!!!