Writing into the Ether

Haha.  I do enjoy writing for myself, though.  Crack myself up and chuckle aloud often, really.  Was looking for the "houseplants" photos just now so I searched my blog and came of with this...

I still can't believe someone up there stole my plant. ;-(  (actually, yes I can. sometimes property owners shoot dogs too. and not old ones, to put them down...)

Glad to be here now, in Minnesota, where -- except for that stolen HHR a year or two back that was recovered and totalled out; and the time I saw the men walking out the Walgreens down the street, past the checker without paying for the diapers --  people are pretty honest here overall, I find.

It hardens you to always have your back up, and being hard takes energy. For me.  I don't like to have to live like that myself.  #Don't.Steal.Houseplants.   or Pets. or Peoples. Still can't get over: the kid up there thought he could just take a child, and keep her under his bed.  What kind of society raises that? Another kid has been charged with felony sexual assault of a child under 11, a 17-year old at a summer neighborhood fair.  God help the children when the adults are not sexually mature to address the crimes and work collectively to prevent them.  Glad I am gone from there.

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*ok, now I read that whole list.  Boy, I like me! haha but really.  What an interesting, calm person who enjoys plants and has a pretty good attitude about life.  ("The meek shall inherit the earth.") I really don't like being hard. 

Anyway, the best post in that column is the last one  "New Life", reprinted here: 

The one in the background is the tall one still living with me, now 6 foot something on a curve.
Happy Friday, life is good.

Late last year,
I snipped and rooted this houseplant (forefront) as it was becoming too tall and scraggy, losing leaves from the bottom. I know this type roots well, with a thick quick-growing system that requires a few transplantings as it outgrows containers.

Wish I would have taken a picture in the vase, before I put the original stem back in the dirt. The roots had roots! Watching the delicate growth was interesting to me, and the base of the stem in the large plastic container was pushed into the back of my utility closet, to later reuse the dirt.

After pulling it out end of January after weeks of dormancy, I saw two sprigs of new life, similar to the one in the front shown here. With the snow covering, the cold but sunny days, and selected placement in a southeast facing room, they really took off. Maybe quarter to half an inch growth every day now on these two, just sitting in the sun and soaking up well water.

Live and learn tip to self:
I would have clipped a little higher to the shedding leaves before rooting next time, since we're still a bit straggly. But I think putting it back in with the newly revived original plant will end up filling out the lower spaces nicely as it grows. We'll see in another few months...