an herb garden tutorial

how was your earth day? ours was pretty low key. we just did what we've been doing most every evening since spring finally decided to show her pretty little face: hanging out in the front yard until dinnertime. i always grab a blanket, a few toys, and we'll head outside to catch the last bit of light before the sun sets, but it never fails that august would rather crawl in the grass and play with sticks and acorn hats instead.

when he was a tiny baby and would get worked up {with being too cold or hungry or wet or tired or whatever it was that tiny babies and new parents can't figure out}, we'd take august outside and in an instant he'd be calm and at peace. he's a nature baby, we'd say as his little eyes slowly blinked and looked wondrously around.

as cheesy as it might sound, having a child has made me truly appreciate the wonders of this earth. i'm constantly searching for things that will fascinate him - anything colorful like all the spring flowers, or soft like their petals, or cool like the dirt, or wet like the grass in the morning. i get to see these simple things through new eyes, his eyes, and it's pretty amazing.

this weekend, we had a belated celebration of sorts for mother earth. there's nothing like cooking with fresh herbs, so i picked up some live plants, gathered a bunch of recycled salsa jars {we have a bit of a nacho obsession in my family}, and made an herb garden for our home. it's really not too complicated, but i thought i'd share with any do-it-yourselfers who might be reading. so here it is!  

to clean the jar, fill it with really hot water, let it sit a few minutes, then remove as much of the label as possible. {be careful when handling the jar and don’t burn yourself!} add a couple drops of oil onto a paper towel and rub at the remaining residue from the label.

 

 

thanks mother earth, you rock!

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Wait, what? I actually have an audience? And you all even kind of liked what I had to say? Wow. Not only am I flattered but extremely... r-e-l-i-e-v-e-d. 

As some of you may know, I'm not a particularly open person. And as far as social media goes, I have a quasi-sociopath aversion. I mean, the most you'll get out me on Facebook is maybe a "Like" on comments. If I'm super enthusiastic, you'll get a meager, albeit sincere Comment. So naturally, I was all nerves right before hitting "post" on promoting this new blog. But then I got this surge of support and encouragement. 

Thanks to you all for the positive reinforcement and resulting courage to forge onward! I'll do my best to bring genuine introspection and insight to this little slice of the internets.

p.s. Bare with me as this site comes together. Blogger design templates are great but I'm trying to customize bits by teaching myself CSS coding so check back frequently for updates to the Pages. Also, if anyone can help me figure out how to embed this friggin' Snapwidget, I'd be much obliged. I know it should be super easy but I'm having the darnedest time of it. For anyone interested, I learned that only a few gadgets show up in Dynamic views (the template I was using). I had to switch to another template that supports the feature. Boo. You would think that since Dynamic views are the new stuff of Blogger, they'd have the beta testing done before launching... Oh well.