2 posts tagged “plants”

I made it back to Btown. It's still really odd not having to go to work or classes. Every so often I stop and spaz thinking I am missing work.
I sorted through some things at my parents to see if there was anything I needed or wanted before the big move.
Now that I got it out here, I have resorted through some of it and got rid of a couple things.
Still need to get rid of a bed and a couple of chairs.
My new apartment called to let me know my application had been approved.... I had called them over a month ago to see if they had gotten all my paperwork and she told me then that I had been approved, that the lady I had been working with had been on vacation all week.
Fast forward and she is just getting around to calling me. Since I had her on the phone i asked about utilities and things, and she was all "You don't have any information on them yet?" Uh no. Moving 690 miles, why would I. So I asked her to give them to me, so now I need to set that up. yippie.

When I was at the parent's I went to my hometown library and picked up some CD's one was Seal's new album System. To be honest I had completely forgotten it had come out. I like Seal, I have since the very beginning, but unlike some bands he falls into the group that I own all or most of their albums and like all of them I just don't keep up with them. Train falls into that group too. Anyway, back to System... it's really good. Not that I wasn't expecting it to be, I think it's just that every time I hear Seal, I remember how fantastic he is and wonder why I don't listen to him more often.

Today I get to take my cherry tree out of hibernation. When I was in DC I bought a grow-a-cherry-tree kit.I hope it grows, but my expectations are pretty low. It has spent a month in the fridge - per the directions and I get to take it out today. If all goes well I figure it will be years that I can keep repotting it in bigger pots and by the time I am settled down and ready to buy a house it will be big enough to go in a yard.
Speaking of repotting - two of my shamrocks got replanted when I was home this weekend.  I asked the parents to try not to kill them.

Did I tell you I got super-fantastic luggage for graduation? I did. It's super-fantastic. I have never had a real suitcase before. I have always carried duffles, but I figured since I have a big girl job now, big girl luggage might be appropriate. When I get motivated I will take a picture for you.

Well I think that is everything for now, the wind has left my sails.

Do you have a green thumb?

Sometimes.

I grew a whole flock of Lambs Ears when I was 13. I planted 4 little plants and before they were mowed over a couple years ago, I had a 3x6 foot patch of them.

I am doing pretty well with the Shamrock I have at the apartment. Its big and green and leafy.
The spider plant I confiscated from the farm seems to be holding up. But I don't notice it improving or dying.

Cacti on the other hand... I have a habit of killing.
Aquarium plants... dead. (so are the fish so I guess thats that)
Trees... I am good with trees. I planted 10 White Pines 17 years ago and 7 of them are now 20-30 feet tall.
Even the Austrian Pine I ran over 6 times a summer with the tractor is now 10 feet tall. (took it 17 years and me not running it over)
And the pathetic Charlie Brown Christmas Tree, we got when I was 10 (which I begged for - to the point the guy sold it to us half off because it was ugly) is now 20 feet tall and not ugly.

yard

Its there in the middle. Flanked by our other Christmas trees, which I didn't pick out and are sort of ugly.
(Okay, so it still isn't perfect looking)