March 12 is Plant a Flower Day in the US. Even if you won't be planting today, perhaps you are planning that for the warmer days upcoming. Or perhaps you are planning the tending or tidying of either outdoor spaces or indoor plants that make your lovely home a little more lovely.
National Plant a Flower Day officially welcomes warmer weather. It’s a symbol of new life and enthusiasm to meet the rest of the year head-on. All of us need that kind of energy in our lives.
More flowers, more life. Planting more flowers not only makes the world beautiful but ensures life on earth survives. Flowering plants are vital to existence. They’re food sources that provide humans and animals the sustenance we need.
In the 1990s, microbiologist Elizabeth Zimmer, now working at the Smithsonian Institution, traced the common ancestry of all flowering plants to a woody plant called Amborella trichopoda. This flower is the "most basal extant" flower, meaning basic/first and still in existence, and is native to the largest island of New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean.
Thank you for such a lovely start to our day Harriet!
I finally got rid of some dead plants that have been lined up in front of my succulent plants. They have been there for a very long time. I kept them there thinking it was keeping the cats away from the other plants. Silly me. I was using that as an excuse instead of dealing with tossing the dead plants away. ALL of the living plants got slightly rearranged after I watered all of them.
Dishes never stop.
Laundry never stops.
Litter boxes never stop.
Paper never stops.
Up just after mid nite here prayed the wind advisory strom blew in shortly after.
So far so good, the wind warnings are up for 7 more hrs. till 11:00 our time here.
I did not have to go to the basement glad for that. Just one small branch down.
I read two of my new books a kids book Fancy Nancy Bonjour, Butterfly
and Save the cat beat sheet workbook both are excellent!
Looked over my bujo list for yesterday and did well with that.
I'm charging up my p/c and phone now.
Had some coffee.
Good morning, Cathy. I feel very enthusiastic hearing about your tending of plants today. I hope they make you smile.
My planning includes purchasing potting soil for potting up some violets. They are blooming their little heads off right now, but I know they need more root space. I already have saved the next pots for the very youngest, repurposed from their previous life as (minute brand) rice cups. Very sturdy with flat bottoms - need to figure out punching some drainage holes. HRH is talking about tomatoes in containers this summer, which lets me know that he will "need" marigolds to plant with them, of course! So, I will have to make the sacrifice (lol) to grow some of those to help him.
I need to thank ds again for the gift of a pair of kinda cute green garden gloves.
One part of my PODA today will be making ds' birthday pie and getting it into the fridge to chill.
It's Desk Day, too. And there are dreaded phone calls.
Another template is made and ready to mark some quilting. I used a glue stick and it seemed to work as well as regular Elmers without the wait for drying.
Nancy, I hope the storm doesn't disturb your rest if you try to get back to sleep, and that only one branch is down.
When I took out the garbage and compost bin I had 2 scarves wrapped around my neck and lower face and my hood was right down to the top of my glasses and even then I was chilled to the bone. It isn't snowing here, but there was snow in the forecast. Rain stopped late last night.
We are safe and warm here. Dh is still sleeping.
Dishes never stop.
Laundry never stops.
Litter boxes never stop.
Paper never stops.
Thank you for the start today Harriet, so cheerful and welcoming!
I have a hyacinth on my kitchen counter smelling good - got it at the plant nursery last week - one of the ones that landscapers drop into the ground or planters and it's all lonely, but it smells so good. I've always loved the smell, although it can get overpowering in excess.
Dcleaning lady is coming, I must get ready for her. She did text and say that she was going to be later today. In the afternoon, my workout, followed by errand to CVS to p/u script, and a drop off for Amazon return. Dh is bowling tonight too.
I have got to get back on dd's tax return once dcleaning lady is working and I can take it all upstairs. I was pretty far along on our own return too, when dd called and I dropped everything (once again.) Perhaps I'll have more clarity reading the instructions as a fresh start.
Wow, it's 41 degrees this a.m.. feels like 32. This is after high near 80 for several days. Not hitting 60 today.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better [wo]man. Ben Franklin
I'm not sure how accurate my rearrangement of my cards is -- the card after this one is lunch, but then again, on a normal day, I'd be driving DC to class right now, so if I got here after getting back, it might almost be lunch time. With no driving to do this week, things are different.
Last I looked, it was a little over freezing here, so no planting today. (Really, planting anything outdoors before Mother's Day here is optimistic, to say the least -- unless one has a cold frame, I suppose.) I am planning on having a couple of planter boxes on the railing of my upstairs porch. After much research, I have decided to grow zinnias and bachelor's buttons (cornflowers). Both can be sown directly. I would have liked to have snapdragons as well, but those need to be started indoors, and that's just not happening. If the playroom were cleaned out, I could put plants there to germinate, but the spot where I'd put them is not cleaned up yet, and frankly, I still probably wouldn't do it if it were. I might get freesias, too; there is still time before they would need to be planted. Most other bulbs will require me to do something in the fall. We shall see. Maybe I will order seeds/bulbs today.
I know you're an early riser, Nancy, but I hope you got enough sleep!
Good luck with your DPCs, Harriet! Could making the drainage holes be as simple as driving a good-sized nail into them, or are they too brittle?
Oh, I would love to have a hyacinth in here, Twins!
Hello, too, to Cathy and blessed and all who come after.
Appointment with the nutritionist this afternoon. I have good news for her -- my blood glucose dropped 10 points since the last time it was tested (still a bit high, though), and we've gotten my A1c below the prediabetic range. I will tell her about my impending getting on the Wegovy pill and ask if she has any advice around that.
Well, I'm going to get started on the wash now; lunch can come after.
I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it; I'm swamped. -- Prince Humperdinck
CL yes I did go back to bed and got enough sleep.
Two more hours of this dang wind.
I did pick up one small branch broke it up and tossed it.
The rest will wait for clam again.
Journals, reading & qt happened.
Bfast x
Thankful for power & heat today to the north there are 50K of outtages.
It was to be an errand day but with the possible down branches and trees not doing that today.
43* / 55* F. today's temp. range.
I picked up the yards again in a calm phase between guests.
Got out my yarn project baskets to work on some knitting for a bit.
Dang the wind will be continuing till Fri.
