SIMPLE STUFF

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It's a good time this week to catch up on some of the things I had been planning to do one day. The simple stuff seems to be the easiest to put off for another day. I have made a firm resolution to work on my list which is fast becoming a book.

Of course the most important comes first which is to fix my wife's broken planter.

She knocked it over and it broke into pieces while we were taking in plants before the big freeze .

Of course if I can fix it back together again I gain plus points.

Some weird contortions and Elmers glue later it is back in one piece sort of.

A few of the pieces didn't fit and others were missing but it pretty much fit together. Good at least for effort points and if you don't look real close almost perfect, gulp.

Plus points are real important in a relationship as any husband will attest to. You bank them for the time you do something stupid at which time you have to cash out. The goal is not getting rich with plus points which is impossible. Breaking even is the best you can hope to do.

Anyway that's done and the points are in the bank. I showed it to her late after dark in the dim light and she acted duly impressed as is her unwritten obligation in the deal because she was the one who broke it. Simple relationship 101.

Getting back to the list I dug up this here Blanket flower plant from out of the garden.

I had planted it there after sprouting it from seed this last summer. I found an old plastic pot and added some wire to it to make this hanging basket.

This way the Blanket flower plant gets the full sun and I get to use some of the pots cluttering up my shed. It is a perennial plant that will not bloom the first year from seed. Hopefully it might bloom this fall.

I have never grown this plant here but I did see one in bloom a while back in L.A. California and thought it looked cool. Here it the picture of the bloom on the one I saw growing in a garden bed in L.A..

It looked like a huge Daisy. I figured if it grows there it will probably do well here. It is susposed to like full sun and little water from what I have read about the plant.

Figured in the hanging basket I could watch it better from my porch. Right now the plant looks like some type of limp lettuce leaves but I have great expectations for it.

After all this list shorten' seemed like a good time to see what there was to see from the rest of the garden.



I found one of my Cardinal Air plants sprouting a bloom spike.

These plants are native Florida Bromeliads. This particular type is endangered in Florida now.

It is really cool to see it blooming or about to bloom anyway. This means it will soon be reproducing by pups after the bloom is done.

And lastly I noticed that my creamsicle geranium is sharing some more of it's roselike blooms.

Well I figure thats a good start on the list anyway.

And it fit in my 2010 challenge by using the resources that I have on hand. Besides that I made points by doing it!
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