On Sunday morning when I pulled up the shades I got a lovely surprise. I’ve had purple wandering jews for decades and they have never flowered. And this one has 3 sets of flowers!
They are quite delicate. I hope it has more.
The window next to the one the wandering jew is in is the roundtop. And there I found buds on one of the geraniums.
So now I was on a hunt to see what else had flowered while I was decorating the tree and house. The Christmas cactus had been flowering and had another flower open.
The peace lily had also been flowering for a while.
All the flowers were in the living room. None of the plants in the office are flowering right now.
The begonia I had dug up to take to my mom in September had continued to flower, but they weren’t the gorgeous bright red they had been.
Once the shades were up and the kitchen cleaned up, I spent another couple hours on the printer search. I think I’ve narrowed it down from 15 to 8 to 1:
Canon MegaTank G3270 All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer
It had the most features I wanted (along with several I didn’t), some of the best reviews, and had made 3 “Best of” lists. Of the 15 I checked out, many were Canon, a few were Hewlitt Packard, and a couple were Epsom.
Reading the *1 and *2 reviews, there were all too many problems across the board with software, poor customer service, and printer failures soon after purchase. I’m hoping the one I get will land in the *5 area…
Tom is reviewing what I found and I hope to purchase one today while they are still on sale.
I collected the laundry early as I plan to start stripping each load before washing it and it takes a long time to do that. So I got the first load going.
Next I decided to try to finish the decorating. These are the cards my sister has made over the years. I scatter them around the house, but many end up on the posts by the wood stove.
Then I sat down and made the pomanders. One I hung over the kitchen sink.
The other hangs in the office. They give off a nice smell. So all that’s left is to get my #2 intern here on Monday morning to straighten the tree, put the tree skirt on, straighten the top of the tree, and put the star on. Then I will be done, except for playing tetris and trying to get all the boxes back in the store room.
It was going to be a very cold night so I got the stoves going at 4PM and made sure they’d go all night. On Monday I continue the laundry and stripping, have exercise class and PT to do, my #2 intern coming before lunch, and just maybe I will resume work on bills/budget. We’ll see…