Still winter
Woke up this morning to 5 degrees with an expected high of 17 degrees. It’s a white world outside with snow still on the branches of the trees along the highway. Yup, it’s still winter, darn it.
I ordered two flowering tropical plants for my B-day and they came yesterday, packed in a cooler with a little heat cushion. I carefully unwrapped them and read the directions on how to acclimate them to their new home. One has a new bloom coming (the orchid). It’s like having two new babies in the house. I have to leave them in their shipping containers in a warm place for a week, and then carefully transplant them, and move them to their permanent home. In this case near my west window in the dining room. I turned up the heat a bit in the house this am so they wouldn’t be too shocked by our continuing winter weather. I think I’ll go out at lunch and see if I can find some good potting soil.
My replacement here at work started on Monday. I now have a shadow. I have 21 more days to teach him how I do my job. Actually, it will probably take a lot less time than this and we will be digging up stuff to do after 2 weeks. He’s very nice and excited to be here. I’ve noticed that I’ll start thinking about certain potential problems that could happen down the road and how we’ll deal with them, and then suddenly realize that I won’t have to. I’ll be retired! It’s a strange feeling, but overall a relief.
Health-wise am back in the exercise groove. Eating is ok, but the weekend is still looming. My DD’s play opens tomorrow nite. We’ll get flowers for her.
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Happy belated birthday! Damn, these things just keep on coming, don’t they? Good luck with your exotic plants. I SO love them, but about the only thing I can manage to keep alive is a philodendron. I HAVE SO HAD IT WITH THIS SNOW. WHERE IS THE FREAKING WINE?
Z
Hey there, I’ve been looking out for you to post something!
How exciting about the blooms. I am really hoping to improve my gardening skills this year. So you have two babies in the house!
Exciting too, about your daughter’s play, and the upcoming changes for you. Everytime I think about me retiring, I feel so scared that I’ll never be able to do it becuase I won’t have saved enough. But you’re there, you did it! So many ways you could spend your time, it’s a delicious thought.
I am also pretty fed up with this long dark winter. I want to see th earth open up and I want to see children playing outside and feel that easy summer feeling when you get home from work in the middle of the week, and you don’t feel like the day is gone. You sit outside and feel the sun on your skin and hear birds and children (and leaf blowers and lawn mowers) and there is just an easier feeling.
I bet it does feel odd to be retiring! Have any ideas about what u will do with all your free time?
When I think of the free time I will have once I retire, it makes me excited. But when I think about savings, my head droops. Must be mixed feeling to retire. Still I think you are going to have a blast.
I am no good at all with gardening. I admire your new babies. Please post pictures once they are settled in.
love,
iniya