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Please see earlier blog message First Day of Spring?.

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See Mandevilla Experiment  and Indoor project for background details about the plant that has survived and thrived. In my humble opinion, the experiment was a huge success!! I love to watch my plants grow–and bloom!!

As mentioned in an earlier blog, I am **NOT** in a good space. It’s too hot and humid to work in the garden so I search for ways to keep from “unplugging” from normal day-to-day activities. Glancing at the weather station clock isn’t problematic. Grabbing the camera every time it registers matching numbers is bizarre! Frequently I “bury” myself in preparation of blog messages. Documenting matching numbers isn’t new; I found this earlier blog coincidentally titled Matching Numbers. Why is this the topic of a message today? 

My handyman, David, phoned on Saturday to tell me he’d be here on Tuesday at nine. He didn’t want to drive on the holiday weekend. It’s two o’clock–Tuesday–as I type these words and David hasn’t arrived nor phoned. This “air-conditioner” situation is driving me crazy!!

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The blog messages are my “journal.” Years ago we wrote the daily activities in a diary (or journal). Today I looked back to see what I was doing this time last year. I was asking plants to Please Grow, and working with an Indoor Challenge.

The year prior (2014), I was talking about Good News (less humidity).

In 2013, I was preparing for the move from North Carolina to Texas. On television, I was watching PBS with a series about The National Parks.

Now, it’s three o’clock Tuesday afternoon and my burden is lifted; I’ve had an attitude shift in the last hour!!  Believe me, today I really, really needed to read At Any Cost. (Please read At Any Cost.)

In 2010, I was in Goshen, Indiana. I was on my nine-thousand-mile, nine-month-trip traveling with my beloved TaB Teardrop trailer.

What a pleasure to reminisce…!!

Have you seen the hysterically funny NBC-TV program Better Late Than Never?? I love it!!

Now I’m thinking about David*–and my air-conditioner: “Better late than never.”

*No, he didn’t show up, or phone.

The strangest messages arrive in my email box. This is interesting.

I must be on a “mailing list” because I receive so-o-o-o-o many unsolicited messages. I spend a lot of time “unsubscribing” but my email box is always overloaded!!

This article really raises my dander!! A couple can’t raise vegetables in their front yard!! Will other communities follow suit?? ~~ I wanted to publish a poster with this message: “Plant veggies, not grass.”  Sorry, I can’t find it in my clip art and messages so will post with “thumbs down.”

For complete details, see my blog message Planter project for neighbor.

This morning the neighbor and I were sitting in rocking chairs, on her porch, and I said “I need to get my camera; those Mexican Petunias are so pretty.” ~~ If I do say so, that project turned out quite well.

Every time I shop at Lowe’s, I check the mark-down plants in the garden department. Even though I don’t “need” any more plants, I succumb to the purchase of items for one dollar (or three dollars). The Coleus is ten times larger than when I brought it home–and overdue for a larger planter. Likewise the Lantana has thrived, and bloomed, and overdue for a larger planter.

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Lantana is hardy and will be happy in recycled soil. (Quality soil from earlier this year.) A not-so-fancy planter because it may join the planters on the south side of my trailer home. Frankly, I’m not fond of Lantana but it provides lots of colorful blooms. ~~ Honestly, I love to give Mexican Petunia, and Lantana, to friends and neighbors.