Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Lavender loves acid; did you know?

OK, now we are getting somewhere I was wondering why mine never ever looked like the ones on those garden shows… all satiny shades of purple and mild magenta, and of course lavender willowy bending in the breezes!
Did you know that in your kitchen you have the best ingredient for flowering bushes and trees?
Coffee grounds!
You see that is the right type of acid needed to force those blooms!
I don’t know why since I am not a botanist but my Gardenia bushes love it too, and we have had a bumper blossoming month last month on both our shrubs in the front and in the back yards.

So now with the double dose of coffee grounds that is, one in the soil mix when we replanted the survivor plants and me assaulting those healthier looking shoots today I truly feel that flowering should be eminent.
I will let you all know when the big event comes to pass.

My house orchid lost its first bloom yesterday and anxiously I wanted to know what to do?
And so I surfed the net and found that it was a normal process, age, although having any fruits or vegetables nearby may cause a toxicity of fumes!
Now all the fruit that we had controversially could be considered a vegetable the only thing I had in the vicinity of my orchid would be our garden tomatoes, and so I moved them.
It’s more than likely a waiting game now to see if they still lose the remaining five blossoms? Hope not, since it would look real sad with just the green stem standing all alone.

Yesterday I bumped my head hard and it caused a dent in my far-head and has been sore ever since. I did put ice on it for some time and never got nauseous although my eyes have been not focusing too well, but that had been a problem before I hit my head.
It was really so stupid…I was sitting in a chair in the living room and had stowed my new walker out of the way under the kitchen bar that also goes into the living on my side of my chair. Any-who, my new ride so to speak, has a storage compartment and so I put the phone in there and it rang. I went to answer it and that’s when my head made contact with the rounded hard surface of the Corian counter top… boom band ding dent… BIG TIME … OW, OUCH! And the worst of it was that it was a computer voice reminding me that I had an appointment! I could have let it go to my voice mail!
You ever want to strangle the phone?
This was my one time, or maybe there were others, but you know what I mean?
I wish that I could use the excuse for my last two offerings here as the reason because of my head ding, well maybe last night’s but would you accept the night before one's also?

It is true that I have been way too clumsy over the years and have hit my head many times before and have had a few too many documented concussions, broken bones and bruises too. Now in retrospect I suppose most of the clumsiness could be blamed on this lovely malady called MS, which I can honestly call on to be of quite a bit to blame.

Day 51 of the oil spill and we here are fortunate to be able to say we are still in the clear of gunk and odors and messes which are now over three hundred miles away, but our beaches are just fine.

On that informative note I will bid you all a very good night and to all count those blessings and we will too!

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