It's Optimism Time

So, out of 18 lettuce plants, 17 are still alive--which is pretty good I think.  (And incidentally--it may not be your best bet to plant lettuce plants in high wind.  It really can break the entire plant off).  Buoyed by such success

that's right--I'm going to try to grow my own plants this year.  I've done this on & off with varying luck, but I figure if this works, these will be ready to be planted at the end of May--which is as soon as most of this could go outside anyway.  If it doesn't work, I'll just buy some plants which will be about as far along as these guys would have been anyway.  The one exception are the snow peas, which could be planted outside right now--except for

Yeah--he only looks cute & innocent.  You do NOT want to know what he did to the peas I planted earlier........