Owning Up to '09

One of my 2009 resolutions was to hybridize my very own Columbine.  Of all the things I pledged to do last year, that's the one that got me a ton and a half of emails.*

I'm finding it hard to come up with 2010 resolutions when I'm still fretting about the stuff I resolved to do last year.  So I revisited last January's blog post to see what, if anything, I had accomplished.

Owning up to '09:

2009 Resolution #1: Finish Rock Garden, part two.
Done! Not only done ~ extra credit!!! In the form of 287 spring bulbs squeezed into that pretty little spot. So, there.

'09 Resolution #2: Grow all of my own summer veggies.
A couple heirloom tomatoes, a few squiggly carrots, rotted beans and awol snap peas (bad rabbit!) though I am NOT calling this a complete failure because 1) I tried and 2) having nothing to eat fit quite nicely into my next resolution....

'09 Resolution #3: Lose 1 pound, per month, throughout 2009 
Done! Losing a pound a month was a piece of cake! Oh, fine... I avoided the piece of cake but what really did the trick was saying no to the most important food group for this Irish Lass: potatoes. Plus, I snowshoed. Everywhere. Did you know that snowshoeing burns more calories than blogging? 'Tis true.

'09 Resolution #4: Install a water feature.
I plugged in the old one. Does that count?

'09 Resolution #5: Go on vacation with the horse.
Spoke to the powers that be (that would be me!) and I got an extension on this one. Bella and I head to Arizona on our first ever horse and rider vacation, March 20th, 2010.

'09 Resolution #6: Hybridize my very own Columbine.
This got a lot of people talking! Blogging friends were very impressed! While I appreciate the fact that some folks thought I was a botanical brainiac this resolution was nothing more than a cross-pollinating magic trick. You see, Columbines have the loosest morals of any perennial I know, happily messing around with whatever Columbine is growing nearby.

It goes something like this...

Purple meets Yellow.

Yellow thinks Purple is kind of cute.

They go out on a couple of dates...
Things are working out pretty well...

Bada bing,
Bada boom...

Twins!

Okay, maybe not quite like that but you get the picture.

* Full disclosure. I can't even tell you if the chemical term K means potassium or phosphate. Haven't a clue how to hybridize Columbines (though I loved all of your emails!) I leave Columbine pollination up to the hummingbirds.