I started writing a catch up post about some of the books I have read lately, mysteries in fact, but I am shelving that one until next week. Something to look forward to maybe, right?
So, I have some sad (no worries, nothing tragic, just my pathetically Un-Green thumb at work) to share with you. Do you remember Corrie cactus? She lost her roots and is no more. Actually I must come clean. Corrie, the original one, literally lost her paddles (is that the correct terminology?). I think I overwatered her and all of a sudden they just started falling off. So I contacted the place I ordered her from just to find out what I did wrong in order to correct myself, and they kindly sent a second one. Corrie v.2 arrived and when I pulled her out of the box, once again (this time through no fault of my own) she promptly lost most (though not all) of her paddles--nopales (?). So I thought I was done with cactuses.
Alas. No. I am trying again, but considering prickly pears to be a more difficult cactus to care for, at least for a novice like me. I discovered that a local garden center--actually one of those pop-up places you find in store parking lots--has tiny cactus and succulents. So I bought three--two succulents and one cactus. Hopefully they are of the variety that will be easier to care for (and harder to kill off, though I have a decided knack for sending plants to their demise). I am hoping to get proper little pots for them this weekend and will share photos very soon.
This list of house plants and how to care for them could not have come at a better time. Maybe I will go in search of one or two of them.
Thankfully there is still a whole week left of May as I am nearing the end of four books and hope to finish one or two this weekend! Nonetheless I am already contemplating my June prompt, in which I shall be donning my dancing shoes. Not literally, of course, but figuratively anyway.
I have been very self-indulgent and have been ordering books more than I care to admit. Sometimes nothing appeals and then sometimes all of a sudden everything I come across is something I really want to read, and I don't just want to borrow it from the library. So I have a stack of fresh new books by my bedside and I should share those sometime soon, too.
I am still planning on a visit to the bookstore over the long weekend. And I have library holds to pick up as well. (I requested a couple of those plant care books by the way and maybe they will show up this weekend as well). There will be a few movies on the agenda and definitely some walks, though the weather continues to be wet and cool here. I hope there will be plenty of reading time as well (for you too?).