Tidbits
Sleepover at Ikea - Maybe this is the only way to get to the $1 early enough…
A ramen bath - Japanese spa with special baths resembling instant noodles. I wanna play!
Old age homes for dogs - 1) Old dogs don’t like to be abandoned at strange places. 2) Playing with young puppies will probably cause the older dogs to die faster due to exhaustion.
A remote-controlled pigeon - Oh the poor thing…
An article on a brilliant method of teaching grade schoolers about bats and rabies. I smell a lawsuit.
Will trade beer for Crumpler bags. Tempted by the beanbag and messenger bags…
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The Life and Death of an Office Plant
March 09, 2007, 6:08 am
So back in the beginning of Feb, I got this plant from the CNIB’s annual spring Crocus sale. They said that I could plant it in my garden when spring comes.
I do not have a green thumb, but I figured it can’t be that bad. I even picked out the one that was already budding for guaranteed success, and left it at work where it should get more light.
Things were looking good. First there was one bud, and then another. I come back one weekend and they were all blooming. Then one started dying. And then more and more wilted. Until there were no more pretty flowers. So I cut them off, one by one, and laid them to rest on a tissue.
I even got a nice orange pot from Ikea in the hopes that the bright colours will trick it into thinking it’s spring… Yet the snow continues to fall.
And then the leaves turned brown, so I started snipping them too. And then there were no more leaves.
So there it sits, a handful of brown, dead leaves in a bright orange pot. I can’t bare to trash it. Breath of Spring? More like Death of Spring.
Sniffle. Vanessa, hold me.
Tagged: Arts & Crafts
Comments (2)
Well, the crocuses should have stayed green. Did you overwater them? underwater them? And despite the leaves dying, there might have been the possibility of the bulbs surviving. I’m not sure if crocuses keep green leaves year round or not. Probably do.
Anyway, judging by how dry the pot looks, the bulbs are dead too. Shame. Killer.
Well once the flowers wilted away, I tried just keeping the leaves alive. But then they started dying too, so I just gave up and stopped watering them altogether. Oops.
I think I’ll just stick with dead plants from now on. No maintenance needed, and they last a long time.
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