Just. Breathe.

[I started this post last weekend. Does that give you any indication of how my week has gone?] To recap a few things from the past 10 days or so... I did some party food demos for a group: Pinterest for the win -- homemade mac and cheese made into cupcakes. Pretty tasty. Tortilla rollups, and of course I forgot to take a picture when the platter was full. Fruit pizza made on individual sugar cookies ...which actually started the day before with a lot of prep, and was followed by a bit of this: Visiting with a sweet group of girls and women and discussing hospitality The rest of the day was spent doing stuff like this: Basil, cilantro, dill, parsley, and thyme -- planted in something that I hope the dog will leave alone. Rearranging and cleaning the porch for the season. We bought this set last year and still really love it. Jumping ahead to the current weekend, we continued the party with a little of this: I love our baskets - petunias and som...

This is potential. Someday this will be a salad. Right now, it is a little bundle of green among several bundles. I grin every time I go outside and see how much it's grown since the day before. These guys have potential, too. Basil, dill, thyme...there's some cilantro and parsley in the barrel, too. They survived the wind of the last week and eventually will wind up in a sauce or a salsa or something yummy, as long as I don't forget to water them in the Texas summer. But I think THIS has actually reached its potential, and then some. I didn't believe the experts when they said mint is a weed with better PR. I'm not sure there are enough days or enough rum to make enough mojitos to use all this in my lifetime! Drop by if you need to pick up a cutting -- I don't think I'll miss it.