About the only spinach-like things you can grow indoors are microgreens and sprouts. Outside, spinach is one of those things that takes up a lot of growing space relative to yield. Think about how a bag of spinach cooks down.

Good luck with the house, java.

Okay, so I am really hating the way my spelling is tanking these days.

I just typed "plays" instead of "place". Which I don't get: why did my brain do that? They don't even sound alike to me, unlike the various forms of "their/there/they're". BAH. Stupid brain!

There's nothing like intending to ignore someone's email and then bumping into them in the washroom. Well, I'm still going to not answer.

Ai Weiwei is a lovely name.

It is rather. A bit of trivia: his family name, Aì, literally means mugwort or wormwood. It's often used as a phonetic element when transliterating foreign words into Chinese, being the first character in the transliterations of AIDS, Eiffel and Isengard.

Re: spinach. But I could put them on the mostly shaded back deck, do you think?

Okay, so I am really hating the way my spelling is tanking these days.

Blame it on the Tamoxifen!

Oh wait, that's just me

Spinach will not grow outdoors if your temps are in the 80s, shade or no shade. I've never tried to grow it indoors. For reference, I grow spinach over the winter in GA - it takes snow far better than it takes heat.

God damn purple rain is a fine album.

Do people still say "album" or does that peg me as elderly?

I know officially young involved-in-high-school-radio minors who use the term album.

As flea said, it's a temperature thing. Temperature above the mid 70s says to the spinach, "You must have seeds now."

Do people still say "album" or does that peg me as elderly?

Don't look at me. I still occasionally say "record."