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Yep...Patsee is on vacation in Colorado and I'm here "holding down" the fort.
Problem is I never really noticed how many house plants the woman has...I just assumed my world was green for no apparent reason...well I know better than to over water so I've been checking everything everyday thinking I was under control...wrong...tonite I come home and some off "them" have leaped from their pots looking for water. Others are lying low hoping I'll be by soon.
So I started in watering them one by one...including the green house it took about an hour and a half. I think I got them all.
Before it dawned on me to move some of them to the sink I watered a couple of books (why would you keep flowers on a book shelf)? and I filled my sock drawer before I realized it was open and the saucer under the pot overflowed...sheesh!
I'm supposed to be playing golf ...shooting pool...drinkin beer...man did she know what she was doin...I could never go to work this week and never keep up with all these plants.
Well I finally have everything under control (at least under)and I'm so paranoid now I think I watered a silk plant in the bed room...oh well it'll dry out...I'm pouring myself a stiff drink... knowing full well, when I sober up the whole thing starts over again.
God I hate it when the cook leaves.
Oh well she'll be back in a week or so...surley I'll have it down pat by time she returns...at least the plants will have a chance to reincarnate themselves...they do that pretty fast don't they? I wonder if she'd know if I bought some new ones?
Save the advise & just go ahead and laff...I don't care!
-------------------- "Werks fer me...it'll werk fer you"
... a word of advise, don't buy the new ones till the day BEFORE she gets back. And take digital pics of the old plants BEFORE you kill them so you know what they look like.
-dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
Being a grampa is one of the the most wonderful things in the world!!! Posts: 8741 | From: Yarrow, B.C. Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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Hang in there Monte. You'll appreciate her more when she gets home. They do these things on purpose you know.
I have a friend who went on vacation once and left the teenage son in charge of his African Grey Parrott he had had for years. The birds name was Paco and boy he was smart.
Well, teenager went out on the town and sort of forgot about Paco. Needless to say what happened...parrotts don't live long without food and water.
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Jack in the Pulpit. Does she have one? It's the first one to show signs of needing watering. It'll droop quite noticeably. When my wife passed away her daughters and her sisters took a bunch of her plants. I was still left with way more plants than a heterosexual male should have in his posession. Shes been gone two years and I've only lost two. I've repotted a bunch and seperated some so actually I'm ahead of the game. I keep the Jack in the Pulpit in plain site. It's impossible to ignore. If you're overflowing the saucer you're either watering to heavily or it needs repotting.
-------------------- George Perkins Millington,TN. goatwell@bigriver.net
"I started out with nothing and still have most of it left"
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George, man, I love you to death, but you even KNOW more about plants than any hetrosexual male should.
It's a wierd thing about plants. I've never even been able to keep an aloe plant alive (for a woman who's hobby is "let's see what strange place I can burn myself today and what strange instrument can I use to do so?", an aloe is the only useful plant). When Pap died in October, some friends of mine sent a living garden instead of flowers. Of course, grandma insisted I take the thing. 6 months later and I think it's trying to take over the living room. Seem kinda strange to anyone else?
I miss Pap everyday.
-------------------- Chris Welker Wildfire Signs Indiana, Pa Posts: 4254 | From: Indiana, PA | Registered: Mar 2001
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Monte, put them all in the tub and turn on the shower. Put them back in place before Patsee returns and you will have time for a few rounds at the golf course.
-------------------- Kathy Joiner River Road Graphics 41628 River Road Ponchatoula, La.70454
Old enough to know better...Too young to resist. Posts: 1891 | From: Ponchatoula, LA | Registered: Nov 2000
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What fun this is to read. You cracked me up, Monte. You are getting a lot of good advice. In the tub, lock the drain, set them in a bath of 3-4 inches of water, and use a hand held shower head to give them a gentle dousing. If there's no hand held shower head do it in the kitchen sink and carry them. After that you're home free don't have to think about them. They're good for at least ten days, "helping" each other thru condensation. I say this simply because I bet Kathy instinctively would not turn on a full shower on them(imagine the mess with the soil sloshing) she just did not think about that you probably would (LOL) I hope you have a second place to take a shower.
It takes me hours to do my plants...my life is green, like yours. Tools and Paint are not all I get at Home Depot.
-------------------- Myra A. Grozinger Signs Limited Winston-Salem, NC
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Thanks for the laughs Monte. You are too funny!!! I love real plants. (Good for cleaning up the air too).
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I love real plants. (Good for cleaning up the air too).
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