Challenge: Day 1

***My Good Thing For Today--I was on Facebook this morning for my daily check-in, and an old friend messaged me--his name is John and I've known him since I was 12.  He's in the navy and is now stationed in Afghanistan.  I had no idea.  So I got his address and I will make a point to write to him and send him little care packages.  He is a great friend--I consider him one of my closest friends and I know how much mail means when you are deployed.  I will also be thinking happy thoughts about him each day.  

Lesson planning, gardening, laundry, mopping the kitchen floor, and puttering around the house are on my agenda today.  I find doing all of those things very satisfying so I don't mind any of them (even mopping the floor!).  I'd like to organize my closet too, but we'll see about that.  I definitely want to get out this morning into the garden.  I'm on green bean watch.  So many flowers, I should have a ton of green beans soon.  I'm going to pickle some and freeze some.  And EAT some straight out of the garden.  I need to soak up some vitamin D and get my hands in some dirt.  

I have key lime tree sprouts!  That is very exciting!  Three sprouts so far, they are very tiny, so I think more will come.  They apparently grow pretty slowly--it took them two weeks to germinate.  I woke up last night to a lot of rain, so I think I will wait and fertilize the garden tomorrow, I don't think I even need to water it today.

Heading out... maybe I'll post more later.  

Garden looks pretty good...everything is growing nicely.  I'll be happy when I can see some actual green beans.