Friday, December 2, 2011

What can one say...

This morning I was determined to make the most of my newest project the terrarium!
I did accomplish what I set out in my mind to do, the glass lidded jar was thoroughly washed with hot soapy water and thanks to Hubby the crushed seashells were able to be sterilized with bleach in a colander and bowl set up that he kindly had left within my reach just outside of the laundry room door on the garage floor; to make it work better and easier I used my colander with a metal bowl so as not to lose any shells and it worked!
It had been decades since I had made one of these things and so I thought to be sure it was done right that I should check online on the right way to proceed, and as usual the information was there for anyone who cares to access it.
I only had one little glitch, in the new method or perhaps the I forgot method the whole system called for more than drainage mediums like my crushed shells and moisture protection as in my moss, but activated charcoal to prevent nasty odors from exuding from the pretty arrangement that I felt it was soon to become!
So when Hubby awoke I told him that in my research I found that activated charcoal was fairly easy to come by at pet stores for aquarium filtering systems… it was way back in the early seventies when we had our twenty-nine gallon tank and so I forgot...about that if that was even used then, who knows…
By nine A.M. our closest pet-shop was right next door to our very own Publix and so Hubby kindly said that he would make the run for the projects sake!
As I said before we already had plants and potting soil so nothing else was holding it up!






The first layer was moss and bark, the second layer was the crushed seashells the third was the activated charcoal and lastly the potting soil and then of course my choice of stolen plants that is from our backyard!
Some rooting hormone was used on certain types that were clipped like the schefflera, variegated ficus tree, Boston ferns, dracaena, English Ivy, miniature palm and the decorative green moss for covering on top, and then of course all was well watered and hopefully will root; only time will tell…
It looks so pretty on the coffee table in our living room and the light is just right filtered but can be brighter if we arrange the vertical blinds how we want at any given time.
Moving on… we were, Hubby and I were given a very lovely invitation once again that we don’t know what to do about.
It is for another evening event with tickets waiting for us if we so desire… all we have to do is say yes.
But we feel this wonderful generous person is too sweet and if we take him up on his more than bighearted gift, which we had done last February for our anniversary … we feel we don’t know what to do… it’s that looking a gift horse in the mouth thingy and we have never ever reciprocated and that is NOT right… so we will be thinking on what to do carefully this time.
It is a rather lovely dilemma, but what can one say?

On that joyous quandary that we must decide on… allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all of your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS I did speak with Tuesday Morning’s customer service department today; did you know they have over eight hundred stores here in the U.S., any-who, Zoe said that she would send out an email memo to all those stores to make sure that the Americans for Disabilities Act is the reasoning for making access to all their stores for everyone who cares to enter and shop! She ceremoniously took my name and home phone number and said someone would get back to me, sounds good, but who knows…what will happen.

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