wake up a bit hung over from a friend's 40th birthday party. get
gas,
coffee, and
cigarettes and head back to
maryland. work long enough to check my
mail. head to the
elementary school to
vote.
i am unsatisfied with the presidential candidates, but i gleefully punched in my votes for
local officials -- i feel that they do more for me and how i live within my community. i am still wearing my "I voted" sticker.
so now i work from home (and write this to take a break). i am
anxious about the
elections -- it's a close one this year. i will be watching the returns.
i am running out of room for my
plants -- at home i don't get a lot of good light so i have an area with a grow light. i will be rooting some wandering jew cuttings in water and planting them as a ground cover in a big planted pot with a dracanea (dragon tree). the dracanea is very leggy and i will try air layering some of the long
branches as well as directly cutting and rooting others. i want to train a
jade plant for
bonsai, but i am having difficulty finding information about how to properly
prune this specific plant. i still haven't identified my
cactus. it did not grow for so long and recently had a growth spurt after being moved to appropriate light -- so i don't know if it is a misshapen
barrel type cactus or a small
column type cactus. i would like to cut the top healthy green portion off to
propagate it, but until i know the
genus i don't know if this would be successful.
being
fall/
winter, all the plants are growing fairly slowly. it's just as well, i can learn more about pruning them before
spring comes.
hopefully my
apartment will be painted today. there is a lot of work being done on the apartment, a new
roof is in the works now, i may have new
windows (i heard from the handyman that many people have complained about the windows and that about 90% of the complex will get new ones), and soon i will hear if i am to get new
carpet. i hope i get new everything. rent just went up to $1100. a price i would expect to pay for a brand new three bedroom instead of a ten year old two bedroom.
i desperately want a place where i can
paint the walls and put up crown moulding and build in shelves... put down the floor tiles and counter-tops i want. ugh. apartment renter's
frustration.