It’s the first hot day so far this year, and I’m diggin’ it big time. We’ll see how I feel when mild-hot turns to supernova-hot in a few weeks, but right now at around 80 degrees it’s bliss. I’m about to head up to Boston tomorrow so I’m trying to soak it up as much as possible.

Now that I’m finally in a warm climate and I have my own slice of green Earth I’ve got my heart set on growing stuff this year. What am I going to grow? I’m in Texas so growing hot peppers is of course inevitable. I’ve never done it on my own before (I once planted a Poblano in a friends garden) but I hear it’s pretty hard to screw up - either way I’m going to attempt to document it along the way and will probably be blathering about it non-stop, so stay tuned. I’ve been thinking about taking a picture of a single pepper plant from the same angle every day this summer and Flickr’in it up…we’ll see if time permits on that one.