On Friday night, I fell asleep in front of Netflix, and woke up at 2200h. Instead of having the good sense to shower and get in bed, I took the hardware off my desk and cleaned it with strong ammonia and hot water. I’d wiped it down when we moved here, but just cleanser, so […]
The caladium bulbs I got at Buchheit weren’t individually labeled, but on Friday, I remembered to take a photo. Red Flash is the sun-tolerant one; Pink Beauty and Freida Hemple are regular shade-lovers. I got to the flutter-guy bushes before they even had tags on them. Two Royal Red, and one Black Knight. I went […]
Thanks to the fancy multi-species pots at Buchheit, careless shoppers, and the brittle-stemmed habit of Tradescantia zebrina, I got a free plant. Three bits is enough as long as I don’t let it dry out!
Just the sacrificial plants; cuttings of ludwigia repens and hydrocotyle, and some dwarf saggitaria that did what sag does when you ship it…turn brown. Roots are good, though. The vals looked bad, and they spread too far and fast for a 10g, so they’re in a bucket with the rest of the sag. Once the […]
Well, the start of it, at least. A 1″ layer of 50/50 garden soil and Organic Choice potting soil (both soaked/leached/rinsed over a period of 2+ weeks), and 25% plain clay cat litter, rinsed. I thinned it to below the trim right around the edges so it wouldn’t show. Top layer is 1″ of Caribsea […]
I took this when I got home because I wanted one of the colour dry. This is just the first coat I applied yesterday. This is the final coat on the last of The Great Wall Project. Blotchy because it’s still wet in spots. One month and one day ago, I ripped off that first […]
Feels more like spring, and this beautiful thing was waiting for me when I got home! There are half a dozen more almost ready, but this is the first Parview crocus.
I said there wasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that I’d be able to have green walls this weekend. Everything else suffered for it, but… First thing this morning, I sanded the wall; first with 150 grit, then with 220. Then, I primed. I had exactly enough primer; so close that I did the bit […]
I finally did it! The peach crap is gone, the vile 70s stuff is gone, and the gaudy blue and green vintage 1948 paper is gone. All of it. I started scraping this morning, and cleaned up the “tape and drywall compound over old paper” corner. While the corner dried, I kept scraping, and then, […]
I half-emptied the “printer cabinet” (which has not housed a printer in many years) as soon as I’d started laundry, so I was able to move it. The rest of the peach paper came off the west wall easily, but then I started on the south wall’s triple decker nightmare. I didn’t get out the […]