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January 28, 2005

Beans!

From Michelle, a bit late...

Just before Christmas Teenager #2 came home with some beans. No, not the Jack and the Beanstalk, go out to sell a cow and come back with magic beans kind of beans, but the kind of beans you have to grow for the purposes of a mysterious school science project.

So anyway, he put a layer of cotton pads in the bottom of the jar, added the beans, put more cotton pads on top and added water to the mix.

Unfortunately, the beans died. It could be because we all forgot about them and didn't water them...

So anyway, he wasn't the only one whose beans died, so the science teacher gave out more beans.

This time we made sure to nurture the beans. Were they getting enough water and sunshine? Were they in a draft? This time we worried about the beans. We even named them and spoke to them to encourage them a bit.

So anyway, two of the beans have sprouted and, I have to say, are looking pretty damn good.

"When do you have to take them into school?" I asked Teenager #2 the other day.

"Um, were not doing that project any more. We can let the beans die now," he callously informed me.

But I've given them names!

Michelle, off to water Bill and Ben

Posted by Michelle at 2:02 AM