Sunday

Our project this weekend was to replace

the window in the upstairs bathroom.

 

According to the papers that accompanied it

professional installation

would require approximately

one hour.

 

Whatever else we may be

professional installers

we're not.

 

Some creative problem-solving was required, involving

several additional trips up and

down the ladder.

 

What really slowed us down, though,

was stopping to watch the green beans grow.

 

Seriously.

 

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Last week Tim planted green beans

in the garden box on the south

side of the house.

The ladder to the window was set

just beside the garden space.

 

When we started the box was empty except for three (3)

fingernail-sized, green nubbins,

just emerging through the black soil. 

 

Over the course of the next 90 minutes

we watched those three nubbins 

turn into stemmed plants with

 leaves unfurled.

By the time we packed up the ladder

four more nubbins had emerged.

 

Amazing.