This weekend I had a thought that I should go into gardening or Botany. I really like plants, gardening and growing things. Add to this the fact that I get literally giddy when I walk into the garden centers of stores (Target and Lowes this weekend). I bought another long flower box, (this sets the count at three long ones now) one large and three smaller transitional plastic pots to plant some new “wildflower” seeds that I got from the dollar spot at Target (yeah I know, I am skeptical about them too…) to see if anything would actually happen with them.
Good news it looks like for my bean plants that I almost killed off, I saw some new buds on them yesterday in the beautiful weather, so I think that they might come back! The pea plants did not seem to be too phased by that bout of cold weather when I just got too excited and antsy and put the majority of my plants outside. Looking back, probably not the smartest move, but oh well.
I repotted a few plants that needed bigger pots – A small plant that my dad gave me for Valentine’s day was actually split into three mini plants, all of which are doing really well now that they have been separated! I also got my mom some Gerbera Daisies and potted them for her and put some ribbon around the pot. I got her a nicer plastic one so that if and when they die, she can keep the pot and reuse it. I really love Gerbera daisies. They are so pretty!
I think that when Derick and I do finally decide to move into an actual house, I want to make a greenhouse and have all sorts of cool plants in there. I think that would be a great hobby for me! Now all I need to do is look into learning more about them. Wouldn’t it be cool to create a whole new breed of Gerbera Daisy?! Ok, ok, now I am starting to sound like my husband…
This weekend, I also did some finishing touches to our house (I know, it should really be “finished” by now, but there always seems to be things to do or improve upon in a house!) I went to Target and bought some bathroom rugs for the downstairs bathroom, since Tucker decided that he did NOT like the one that was in there (sorry Adrienne and AJ, your wedding gift lasted us only 7 months!). I also got a couple more for the upstairs bathroom. My toes really enjoyed them this morning as the rest of the house was fairly chilly this morning.
I also tried the Papa Murphy’s pizza place by our house for the first time. I went in there and got their Taco pizza (really yummy) and a Hawaiian. The girl that made mine was really nice and friendly. She looked at my T-shirt (I was wearing the past summer’s Camp Needlepoint shirt) and commented…”Camp Needlepoint…that is a camp for diabetic kids, right?” I said yes, and then she said that one of her friends went to go there but she passed away recently. I did not hesitate, and asked if it was Alyssa. She said yes, and I told her that I knew her quite well and that I had been her counselor a couple of years ago. Nice bonding moment. I am also more and more aware after chance happenings like that, that the world is quite a small place.
Speaking of camp, I need to see if I can counsel at all this summer. I think that I might be able to inbetween VMUs for the first week, so that would be really fun ☺ I might just save my vacation and take a couple long weekends with Derick to WI or up to Bemidji we have been talking about going up there and hanging out. Jeremy mentioned that he is going to be up there through the end of the month, so it would be fun to go while he is still up there so that we still know someone up there!
On a bit of a sadder note, my Grandpa has been in the hospital off and on for a little while now. His heart is giving out. It is only functioning at 5%. To make matters worse, he fell and broke his leg about a week ago and has been at North Memorial since then. His kidneys have beginning to shut down as well, so they had to take him off some of his medication. So things are not looking well for him. My uncle Don, who lives in North Carolina even flew up the other day, so that never is a good sign. I went to visit him and got him to smile. But other than that, he didn’t even stay awake to talk much, and when he did, it was pretty slurred. It is so sad to see people like that. I guess all we can do is pray for my family – my Grandma especially. She has been having a really hard time with everything. She almost started to cry when she saw that I came to visit at the hospital.
I really like living in MN when it is spring time, because here, you can really appreciate the changing of the seasons! The warmer weather that is coming has made me very thankful! So thankful that today for work, I pulled out a skirt to wear! YAY! Also, this week is the last week of “fall hours.” Next week we are on summer hours. We work more during the week, but then we get to leave at 12:30 on Fridays! Whoo hoo! I love those days! Also, now that the weather is nicer, that means that Tucker gets to go on longer and more frequent walks. I am also hopeful that we can bring him to a dog park close by us as well! I want to see what he does. He is pretty content just to play Frisbee in the open fields behind out house, but I think for his sake and ours, it would be good for him to interact with more dogs!
Alright, I think that is a long enough update for now!
Enjoy!
-L
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