Mother's Day

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Mother's Day?

Completely bogus!

A "holiday" invented by Hallmark cards and the struggling florist industry.

Did any revolution ever take place on the second Sunday in May? Did some pious prioress have her breasts hacked off so she could apotheosize to the Church's top saintly sales team?

No!

But I'm willing to cut an enormous amount of slack to any holiday that involves floral tributes and chocolates for moi. And the BoyZ came through! A magnificent bouquet, a lifetime supply of those ultra-rich Lindor chocolate truffles. And phone calls!

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In other news, I hit three garden supply stores yesterday, and none of them had sieves, so I guess I'm gonna have to order one online. I did make it to my garden, too, where I had time to replant some of the peas I first put in a month ago (out of a whole pack of seeds, only six or so seedlings sprouted) and take out approximately 10 lbs of nettles (damn those little motherfuckers grow fast!) before it began to pour.

This has been a very, very cold spring with frosty nights well into May. But Mother's Day is the official end of the frost season, so I'm gonna start planting in earnest. I have a couple of plucky baby cucumbers ready to go and a plastic bin of tomato seedlings looking for a good home. (The woman who gave them to me told me they came from a supermarket Roma tomato that she forgot about and one day exploded into seeds—so I don't know how hardy they are. Supermarket vegetables are not bred for their propagative properties.)