User blog comment:Freelance Grammar Nazi/Planting Sunflowers for Russia!/@comment-1852709-20100513235130

@FreelanceGrammarNazi: I followed your advice, and it worked! Except I didn't exactly plant Mammoth Russians, but I planted smaller sunflowers (I'm not an expert at handling big pots, that's why). But while I was planting them, I remembered an embarrassing accident when I tried attempting balcony planting a year ago. I remembered that I was trying to plant some California poppies on the balcony, so I got all the plants set and the big IKEA-style terra-cotta pots on the balcony. So I was carrying a big bag of fertilizer (and it happened to be open) on the balcony, and I tripped over (and almost broke) the huge pots, and the fertilizer flew up into the air and the open end was facing down, so much to my horror, the whole bag's contents were dumped on me. And some also happened to fall on my down-below neighbor's balcony. But thankfully, none of that happened while planting sunflowers. If I take care of them, they should grow well!

Oh, and usually on those rare occasions when it snows in San Fransisco, I try not to be too surprised, except I'm always like, "WTF?" But my parents were once vacationing in Buffalo, New York before they returned to China and had me, and on Halloween, it snowed so bad that nobody went trick-or-treating. And this winter, China-aru got hit HARD with snow, which is also really unusual, because in Beijing it hardly ever snows in winter, and school happened to get canceled several times too.

@Icelilly: By the way, I love tulips too. I think I've been to one of those tulip festivals when I was younger or something, but I can't really remember.