Day One

…was actually yesterday for these new plants, but hey, why pick nits?

I went with my mama to get some work done for my grandmother yesterday. Had a fine time as we dusted, swept, moved, attempted to vacuum, giggled and chatted. What do I mean by attempted to vacuum? Well one of my tasks was cleaning the ceiling fan blades. There was some question as to what would work better: using a hand held vacuum-thing or using a Swiffer-jobbie (like my very technical description?). The vote (in reality the decree from my mother) came down in favor of the hand held vacuum, so as not to spread dust. However, once I climbed up the step ladder and started up the thing, it only gave a feeble, fading attempt at performing its duties before it sputtered and died. The consensus was that it fell off its charger. In came the Swiffer, out went the dust.

What was really super cool about the whole thing was that I found a piece of furniture at my grandmother’s that I thought for sure was long gone. It’s a smallish round table with curved legs. The top of the table actually contains a drawer. She told me I could take it, but I wanted to make sure I could find a place for it. I’m going to pick it up in a couple of weeks. When I do I’ll post a picture. I always loved this table and I’m glad to know it’s not gone forever. I think I’ll put it in the living room. Dan’s not so sure about that idea, but he wasn’t really given much of a choice.

So, after working at grandma’s, mom and I toodled over to a nursery to look at plants. There, we got a whole host of plants for the front yard that I planted yesterday afternoon. Ooh, I forgot to mention that grandma had started me a couple of plants that I took with me. About 4:00 yesterday afternoon I set out to give these plants new homes. There were actually quite a few of them. Only the plants that seem rather large were existing plants.

It was tiring work, at one point as I was digging little holes for these guys I hit an ant hill. Gah! I turned the hose on it and tried to drown the little buggers. Not sure how well that will have turned out. All’s well that ends well, though and all plants now have homes. Dan is skeptical at how well they will survive. Given our track record (dead plants: 45, living plants: 4) I can’t say as I blame him.