Yeah, I think this winter is finally getting to me.
Oh, I know all the tricks. Light up the house like a landing strip at O'Hare, keep track of how sunset is a little later every day, make sure to exercise, blahblahblah.
Frankly, by the time February rolls around, I'm scrounging around in the bottom of my bag of tricks, looking for ways to make the winter endurable until Spring sashays in.
So when Walmart had a clearance sale on houseplants last week, well ...
I bought a Schefflera. Then I bought a Ponytail Palm. Then, I went back last night and bought a Marginata Palm. I have no idea if I even spelled any of that correctly, I'm just going by what was printed on the little tags, but AT LEAST I HAVE GREEN STUFF TO LOOK AT.
It is a comfort on mornings like this one, when I wake to discover that - surprise! - we got a couple of inches of unexpected snow last night, and I had to shovel, AND the plow guy had not bothered to come through by the time I had to leave for work, meaning I had to muscle the car up onto the main road to even get to the office, and
Hang in there, pretty green plants. It's you and me until the Spring.
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- rockygrace
- I was born in 1962; you do the math. (See also: I'm too lazy to remember to update this thing regularly.) I bought my first house in the summer of 2009; I share it with four cats and with the memories of The Runt and Little Girl, who both passed away in 2011. Rocky, the cat for whom this blog was named, passed away in 2008; I miss them all. I wish I lived somewhere where the winters weren't eight months long; other than that, life is good.
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3 comments:
That's a good idea. I might go buy some plants too.
On the other hand, wow! A whole bunch of new litter boxes! And munchies! Climbing trees! And perches!
~~Silk, yeah, the cats have been riding roughshod on the new plants.
I can't blame 'em - They're sick of winter, too.
Can't do much about the climbing and munching, but I found that covering the top of the dirt with criss-crossed wild rose twigs cut to size and laid on the dirt usually discourages pooping, piddling, and digging without hurting the plants.
If that doesn't work for determined kitties, screening does.
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