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I had yesterday off because of MLKjr Day. I would love to say I accomplished many projects and ran lots of errands. I did not. I did get my grading done, so at least there’s that.
I also went to a plant nursery that I like a lot. It is all indoors. I could have taken lots of pictures of their beautiful houseplants, but I didn’t. The only picture I took was of some pots. I wondered if they might fit in the bathroom windowsill.
I am very thankful for the extra day of weekend. I feel so rested.
I did some gardening yesterday!
I stopped at Lowe’s on Saturday, and saw they had summer flowering bulbs and different kinds of bare-root plants for sale. One the packages was globe thistle roots. I love globe thistles! And there were six plants for ten dollars! So cheap! I bought a package.
The roots were already sprouting, so I would need to get them in the ground quickly.
I don’t have much dirt to plant things in, so it was going to have to be pots. I decided to put a couple big pots against the far wall of my yard. They’re the two short blue ones on each side below:
I don’t like them there, but this is just for this year, and it’s an experiment. I’m not sure globe thistles will do well here since there isn’t really any winter for them to go dormant in.
I suppose there are down sides to aging, but I have found it to be really cool. Such amazing a weird things happen with your body – hairs in weird places, strange aches that take you by surprise, forgetting something you’ve known for a long time – it’s all so interesting!
Yesterday I had a new weird thing happen. I was cutting my toenail, and it broke the clippers. Like, the metal of the clipper broke instead of my toenail being cut.
That’s like a super power or something. I could be Toenail Man, and fight crime with my super-hard toenails. A criminal would shoot a gun at me, but I’d deflect it with my toenail – “Preoww!” (that’s the ricochet noise… I’m not sure how to spell it)
I’m so looking forward to see what other super powers my increasing age will grant me…
My orthodontic work is done for now. The bottom teeth have been moved together, so that where there were once two teeth crowded into a not-big-enough space, there is now a smaller space for one implant.
Since I’ve graduated from the teeth-moving part of the process, the orthodontist is just holding my teeth in place. I still wear a plastic tray on top, but she said the space on the bottom would be best held by a wire retainer, and that there can be a fake tooth there in the mean time:
It’s so cool! It looks like an actual tooth! Here’s the before and after:
As a cool bonus gift, I got to keep my latest tooth molds! Awesome!
I’m doing a tech workshop that meets once a month. Yesterday was January’s meeting. It’s in Orange, which is on the other side of my school from my house. It’s giving me opportunity to get to know a new area.
When we went to lunch, we drove past a nursery. After our workshop was over, I was excited to check it out. Here’s where it’s located. For reference, my house is straight south of the “405” marker on the map.
The nursery was fun. It was long and skinny:
It had a pond in it! They had roped it off for the winter, but I could look over the gate:
And most interestingly, they had a very large specimen of the Euphorbia lactea variegata I got this past summer. Will mine get this big? That would be crazy!
Here’s my plant when I bought it:
And here’s the one at the nursery:
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