Who Needs Curtains?

We live in an area where there’s not a ton of sunshine. We are surrounded by an old growth hardwood forest.

This means that there are a limited number of types of plants that will do well in our home. It also means that they need to be in or very close to a window in order to thrive.

My answer to this was to create a curtain of plants in each window.

It makes watering a snap and I really enjoy all my little window jungles.

Last Hurrah

My Thanksgiving cacti are blooming to beat the band! I finally got around to rearranging my plants to create a Thanksgiving cactus window.

Right now there’s one Easter cactus in the window but I'm pretty sure I’ll move it back to the bathroom window and put a pot with multiple colored Thanksgiving cacti in it in this window.

It should be gorgeous when they’re all blooming come Thanksgiving.

Early Blooms

My Easter Cactus is blooming. Last year I got a small cluster of blooms followed by a much bigger bloom. Hopefully this year will be the same.

This little bugger has been hard to convince to bloom so I moved it to my kitchen window. This window is going to end up being a Thanksgiving/Easter cactus window because they seem to bloom endlessly here.

The one true cactus in the window may get the boot to the downstairs bathroom.

Still Blooming After All This Time

My two kitchen Thanksgiving Cacti have been blooming since October!

I turn them monthly and every time I do I discover a new bounty of blooms!

This is a close up of what I think of as my ballerina blooms. The color is cream and the blooms are extremely delicate. Such a treat!

Interestingly my two living room cacti barely bloomed at all. Feeding and watering have been the same but with our warmer winter and being above a baseboard radiator. It’s never been an issue in the past but with the warmer winter?

Joined at the Hip

They aren’t wrestling. They were sleeping like this. They’re more or less joined at the hip. Quite the odd couple.

Happy New Year! No Clean Slate for me!

Actually I’m feeling kind of meh and I have no one to blame but myself. On New Year’s Day I find myself mid-Rotation. In fact, I’m not even beginning a new workout week. The typical “Clean Slate,”  “Do Over” feel of the New Year is definitely missing.

This is actually nothing new. I’ve had a similar New Year’s experience when the holiday has fallen mid-week or close to mid-week in the past. Yet this is different. It’s different because I’m really not looking for a clean slate. In fact, I don’t want one! So I’m not sure that planning a sparkly new rotation with brand new sparkly workouts, to begin today would have had the usual sparkly effect. I kind of doubt it.

You see, I love being more retired than not. I love having tea with DH each morning while we discuss the news and what workouts we have planned and the silly things that the dogs do that we enjoy. I love our family yoga and/or meditation time. I love the monthly table placemats and floral arrangement and the monthly holiday meal we plan and cook together. Yes, if a month doesn’t have a holiday, by George we’ll create one! I’m not sure it will last but for now I’m immersed in family life and am really enjoying it. I even have a switchable night light in our bathroom that I change monthly. So why would I want a clean slate and what on Earth would I do with it??

1/1/2020 - Recovery - We did family Mantra Meditation. We cuddled dogs and our cat. We took down Christmas and put up our January table. We had a special meal planned so we cooked and enjoyed it. Tonight we’ll watch a movie. It was a full day so I swapped my exercise days around. I hope you had a great first day of the year!

Totally Free Weight Rack

I’ve been wanting a weight rack since we added the gym but I never found exactly what I was looking for. Last week I spied 8 old square weights and two lengths of board that DH was planning on throwing away. Voila! A weight rack that’s exactly what I wanted. Better yet, it was free and repurposed materials that might have ended up in a landfill.