Wanting Lately

• A garden.  Its time.  I've put it off for longer than I probably should have, being as we've had the nicer weather already.  But now, the itch has grown into a full-blown want, and I'm ready to get back out in the garden.  This year, I'm thinking all root vegetables, and maaaaybe peppers.  I'm through growing tomatoes, seeing as we don't eat them - I just grow them to see all of the color change.  And I've killed off my zucchini 2 years in a row (seriously, who kills zucchini?), and I'm considering going for the hat trick.  So potatoes, carrots, onions, sweet potatoes are a sure thing, and maybe peppers and ill-fated zucchini.  That's my plan.  Now if only I could find the gumption to execute it...

The dirt.
It calls to me.
Please ignore the deplorable state of our lawn.
All of our neighbors do.

• Colored Pencils.  Oh, and a sketch pad, with the nice paper and big blank spaces that are begging to be filled with ideas and brilliance.  Guess I should add "brilliance to fill the pages with" to my list, while I'm asking.  I've been toying with the idea of running an online shop again, and selling bags (like last time) and baby things (this would be new).  I've got big ideas and burgeoning plans (totally just spelled burgeoning right, Yahtzee!), and I want a cool & professional-looking sketch book to make these plans in.  It'd feel legit, and you know I love feeling legit, if only for a short time.

These seem legit
I'm also gonna need a pencil sharpener.
That is, if they even make those anymore.

• My own plane & pilot.  We recently drove up to PA, to see our family and introduce Riley to them and all sorts of Northern germs, as previously mentioned.  The drive, which I've made in 9h50m, and google says will take 10h34m (but not 2AM-G), took a leetle over 16 hours.  Not cool.  So I think I'd like a personal pilot to take us places.  Yes, that would be sufficient.  At least until teleporting is made available to the public.

• A date with my husband.  Nevermind that we just spent 16 hours in the car together.  That maybe sorta mighta coulda have been thought of as a date, but I think I would have needed to warm to the idea beforehand.  I'm thinking maybe a nice dinner out (with dessert, since March is over and I'm eating that again!) and a trip to the gun range?  Because that spells romance for us.

• To bake.  I haven't baked lately (except for royally screwing up my favorite bread recipe that I never ever screw up), and I'm missing it like candy.  Except more like missing it like cupcakes.  Lucky for me, CakeWeek 2013 is coming up.  Which means I'll be baking my socks off.  Please take this as fair warning - things are going to get sugary up in here (up in here!).  It's going to be a little different from last year, but if you'd like to see what last year had to offer, please see here and here and here and here and here and here...

What about you lately?

<3 M.