Ode to a tomato plant

I lied… this isn’t an “ode”, as I’m not sure what one of those entails, but it probably requires some writing skills.  Instead, this is just a tribute to my absolutely enormous and completely non-productive “black krim” tomato plant.  I started to grow it from seed about four or five months ago in our counter-top hydroponic garden, and it’s become so massive that it’s now growing into the drawers in the kitchen cabinets.  We have to push it out of the way if we want to boil the kettle.  It does blossom, but has foiled all my pollination efforts and is just a big, green, stinky, tomato plant.  Here’s a photo of it as of yesterday:

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To put the size into perspective, the fluorescent light fixture is 48” wide.  It’s truly become a magnificent plant, but I’m going to chop it all down sometime next week and start a new batch of plants from scratch.  I might try peppers next time and skip the tomatoes and cucumbers, unless someone can tell me how to make a delicious meal out of tomato plant leaves.

We went to Target on the weekend to pick up plastic storage bins, and while there I found a neat little cat toy called a “cat activity center” by Hartz.  I’ve looked all over the web for it and can’t find it anywhere, so I can’t provide a link to buy it… you’ll just have to covet it from afar.  It’s basically a stiff green plastic bag stretched over a rectangular frame, with a couple of feathers and fuzzy balls strategically placed for maximum cat enjoyment.  I took a photo of Chelsea “in the bag”:

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All the cats love it, which is sort of sad because I don’t think I’ll ever find another one.  Fortunately, they’re also really enjoying the large paper shopping bag we were given when we bought a doormat at Cost Plus, so there’s plenty of bag fun for everyone.

Oh, this is the doormat we bought:

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It’s not that we’re rude, we just don’t really like other people.

Don’t forget that you should all be going to see the movie The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill.  You can get a list of cities and theatres it’s playing at on the website, and you can also read this great review of the film at Salon.com.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 03/17 at 09:16 PM

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