keeps my interest from flagging, so here we are. It's colder this week during the day- sunny but just around fifty degrees, so I haven...

I am feeling some dismay about the state of my yard and garden. Last summer the front bed looked like this- all full! Now it's pretty s...

My coleus are the only plants I'm tending right now that will go out into the ground. The orange/lime ones have done the best this winte...

there will probably not be much garden. My ankle still gets swollen if I do too much strenuous work, not to mention the lingering covid exha...

I think this fern is doing much better than ones I've had in the past. I didn't cut it all back but just have been pinching off dead...

The waxy, surreally-bright pink flowers on my Thanksgiving cactus are finally fading and dropping off.  So pretty while it lasted! (pics fr...

 My second-favorite angelfish, Shirley, died sometime last night. She looked okay yesterday- alert and came eager to eat just like always. B...

in the yard behind mine

My plain spider plant is making tons of babies right now. I've already given away half a dozen and there's more new. Thanksgiving c...

 

Took down the vines the other day. Got a few more dried pods I hadn't noticed before It was a good amount of cowpeas (black-eyed peas) ...

found crawling on the windows inside- I let it out

Not much else going on here. In terms of plants. One of the cuttings under cloche started to mold, I tossed it. Of the others, one dried up,...

It looks like the one rooted in sand is dying, and the one in seed started mix struggling. Had to trim the parent plant to fit more plants i...

Did another water change, pulled more sheets of cyanobacteria nastiness out of the tank, that same spot against the glass. I lifted out the ...

I redid some stuff in here, too. Full tank shot (a tad blurry, so hard to get a good photo of this): On one end, I pulled some crypt moehlm...

Attempting to revive my élan for the tanks. Starting small: rescaped both shrimp jars. One on the left was quite hazy. I scraped algae off t...