Today I have even less to say than yesterday. I worked from home and walked outside every chance I got. FART 5 had a meeting this morning, and our boss said there is a nasty cold going around, but I remember thinking, "I feel fine." However, by midafternoon I was stuffy and sneezing - power of suggestion? I took an allergy pill but didn't feel better, just sleepy, so I called in sick to Adoration. (I did lead Night Prayer as regularly scheduled.) Thought I was feeling better and would get the rest of my steps today, but once I got up and started walking around to music, I didn't have the energy. Will go to bed soon and see if tomorrow I am back to myself or have a full-blown cold. Weirdly, while I feel feverish, the thermometer says my temperature is just fine. That's a hopeful sign, anyway.
Here's the exciting news in my life, which I have already mentioned: the heart-shaped hoya leaf I have had for years is sprouting a new shoot!
This is maybe not the best photo of it. It was easier to see when it was in the tiny pot it came in and had been in for years. I just transplanted Big Keith the Dracaena and my money tree, so while I was at it, I transplanted this too, since if it's actually going to grow into a whole plant, it will need more room. However, this pot seems too large for it, so hopefully it doesn't die. Not sure why pots that are too big are bad news, since in nature a plant is in an infinitely large pot, but I remember years ago I took a leaf like this from a hoya plant when I worked at the greenhouse on campus, and it was happy for a long time until I transplanted it... and then it died. I hope that isn't the fate of this plant. As you can see, the bottom of the leaf is getting a little brown, and I thought it was finally dying after all these years; I'd read these "zombie leaves" can live for years but never have any new growth so eventually they die. So I was expecting it to die any day, but instead it sent up this shoot! Also, a piece of my rick-rack cactus broke off, so I stuck that in a pot, and the bottom turned black but the upper part has all sorts of shoots coming off of it, so I removed the black part. I hope that wasn't a mistake too, and that it was perfectly happy as it was. Plants are so mysterious. Sometimes I get plants that die right away, but often they seem very happy for a long time and then they suddenly start dwindling away, and I can't save them no matter what. I have a gasteria right now that looks awful, so I took a photo of it with the plant app that can supposedly tell you what the problem is, and it just said, "This plant is okay, but it could be better." Um... thanks? Am I overwatering it? Underwatering it? Please, just give me a hint! Useless app.
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