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Tuesday, June 20, 2006First Bean
 Have you ever seen a bean fetus? Jonathan planted a row of beans alongside the house, in the only place on our property that gets enough sun for growing vegetables. A few days ago, he took the above picture (with his brand new Nikon digital camera, mind you). I can't help but think that it looks like a sort of botantical unborn baby. You've heard of lanugo, the downy covering all over a fetus's body before he's born? Well, there you have it. Baby bean lanugo. Of course, the entire row of beans is going to produce enough food for one meal. One side dish, actually. There just wasn't room to keep planting a new row every couple of weeks. Poor Jonathan. All that work and one bowl of steamed beans to show for it. I can't get the kid to brush his teeth or remember to take the garbage bin out front on Thursdays, but he has been diligent to a fault in the tending of his micro bean crop. He waters them by hand, with a sprinkling can. Checks them for bugs. And, of course, photographs their progress. We need to live on a farm. Oh, try not to laugh so hard. Really. I am perfectly aware of the complete incongruity between "farm" and "Jill." I was just thinking that maybe I could stay in the house and let the kids do all the...ur...farm stuff. No? Maybe not. We'll have to settle for the row of beans by the garage, and the corn in the front garden, and the rosemary bush. And my prize white tomato plant. But that is worth its own post, on another day. One can have a farm-ish life and not live on a farm, right? Case in point: A friend of mine bought a pair of donkeys once -- male and female. She had to keep her daughter away from the windows because the donkeys kept having donkey love just outside the house. They don't have the donkeys anymore. Down the road, some folks are raising llamas on their several-acre property. What does one do with llamas in Middle Tennessee? I'm afraid to ask. Llama milk, maybe? Okay, I admit it. I'm a subdivision queen. I can't relate to Aunty Em, Old MacDonald, or Pa Ingalls. I have nothing to say to women who can an entire fifty acres of vegetables for winter consumption. And I can't imagine cleaning up chicken poop. I'll just enjoy the fuzzy little baby beans on the side of my less-than-half-an-acre property. Actually, I'll just enjoy the photographs of the fuzzy little baby beans. I mean, if I get too close, I might see a bug. Or something. Farm life. Yeah, right. |
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10of my readers are feeling chatty:
Awwww! How SWEET! I just planted a bunch of stuff from seeds, and was so so so excited to see everything sprout!
But Jonathan has an actual, real-life BEAN on his! Color me impressed!
And it's beautiful. So downy. I do so love little plant babies.
And there is nothing in this world better than truly fresh produce from your own garden.
OK, I've rambled enough. What can I say...the picture touched a chord in me. ;)
Good job, Jonathan!
Yep, I'll stick to container gardening myself ... but ahhh, a horse farm. now that would be different.
Congratulations to Jonathan on his little bean, I'm kind of partial to Babybeans myself lately. ;-)
Such a stunning photo. Jonathan has talent!
I think it's awesome that he cares for his little beans so much.
That's my kind of kid... grows fart fuel for the family!
Oh my - you are so crafty with words - I tell you. You see a baby bean and you want to move to a farm...too funny :)
Maybe you could knit the bean some booties or something?
Hi Jillian. =) I replied to your comment on my blog again. But I wanted to add some things. Hehehe. =D
1. I think Norton has some of those good textbooks I was talking about. Really, a lot of educational publishers and university presses have those college textbooks on the different writing styles (process, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, etc.). =)
2. Have you heard of The Well-Trained Mind and The Well-Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer? (You probably already have, but just in case you haven't...) Those might be helpful books for homeschooling. The Well-Educated Mind even has a reading list of "the classics." =)
only you could come up with bean fetus, sweetie. lol
Ha! Jillian, knit?! Those two words do not go together (sorry Jill, but really! LOL)
Jonathan, you've done a magnificent job!! May you enjoy your beans.
Well, hmph, Nikki, I WAS going to say that MYSELF! LOL
"Mommy" -- There is something so cool about things sprouting. You should see the beans now!
Kerrie -- I knew "baby bean" sounded familiar! :)
Dave -- Note to self: Adding "fart fuel" to the Dave Vocabulary List
Eph -- Just for a moment, really!
Ken -- OK, now I get to say it. ME? KNIT??? I mean, ME???
Tarie -- THANK YOU and I'll be getting back to you!
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