Stuff
What a nice collaboration, Jo. I remember telling myself about three years ago when I finished planting a big bed of impatiens that was the last in-the-ground gardening I would do. Coral vines come up on their own, ferns are hardy and the rest are in pots I can handle. Unfortunately, this year the lantana that has for 15 years come out after being cut back in the fall started leafing out and then every one of them died. My nursery man couldn’t find any reason why that happened. I’ve been collecting interesting driftwood pieces. Some serve as a base for bromeliads, others just because I like them. They don’t have to be protected from hot or cold and don’t require watering.
Talk about doing something dumb. I went out this morning to post the books on my part time job. Halfway there I remembered I’d failed to pick up something I needed to take. I had left in time to avoid Friday traffic but by the time I turned around and came back to get it, traffic had picked up dramatically and I’d wasted almost an hour. That kind of retracing is what my mother used to call “using your heels instead of your head.” Updated, it means using my wheels (and gas) instead of my head.
Candace