Awaz Apni

March 2, 2009 - Impatient for spring and inspired by Mother Earth News , I planted three kinds of lettuce (obtained at Seedy Saturday ). Green oak , red deer tongue , and mystery lettuce (from the seed exchange). March 21, 2009 - Off to a respectable start: The first to germinate was the mystery lettuce, followed by the oak leaf. Red deer tongue still hasn't germinated. Bad seeds? Wrong germination temperature? Once the first round germinated, I sprinkled more seeds randomly. Today: They are such beautiful babies! p.s. Can you imagine only having spring once every 30 years ?

A friend passed this on. She says the BBC believes the average person will only have read 6 books from this list. At least 6 of these I had to read for school. It is definitely a British list but there are several important books on it. 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings X 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird – X 6 The Bible - X (though I may have skimmed the begats) 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X+ 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (started but didn't finish) 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - hahahaha! About 5 or 6 of them 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier X 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X+ 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - X 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - Ge...