Attempts at repotting "Heather" the African Violet was a disaster. This plant was abandoned by Heather Zaboter, now Kinsley, when she left the prosecutor's office some years ago. No one claimed it so I took her home, potted her and kept her in a south facing window. The plant bloomed constantly for those six years. Today was the day for repotting her into a big glazed ceramic pot I got at the garden store. Things didn't go well. The plant had a high crown and a zigzag root stem resembling a palm tree forced into a zigzag back on it's self. There wasn't much for a root ball after I got it out of the pot which had a inward taper at the top (like an amphora). I made a mess and had was trying to do this over the kitchen sink which was phenomenally stupid. I now have a clogged sink. I have been under the sink and have removed the trap after having drained the sink into buckets, pots, pans and other things. Unfortunately the clog is deeper than the trap which is now clear.
So I cut her up into 12 starts. I had the root tone, peat pots and some potting mix and a fixture for starting plants so why not? I had done this before and had gotten plants I called "Happy Leaf" The leaf would just sit in the pot and be happy and grow. I went on YouTube and found an explanation of how to do it. I haven't done anything to the plants yet in the picture but I cut about half of the leaf away at the tip. The woman explained that the plant would then make new plants from the cut at the bottom. There was a second video by the same woman which showed how to remove the new plants from the mother stem. I didn't know that you needed to do that either, I just knew that when I let them be that I got two and sometimes two or three crowns. I now understand these are new plants.
I'm not really patient so maybe I shouldn't be messing with plants at all. We will see what we will see. In the meantime I guess I will just try to unplug the sink and look for rotor rooter or whatever and place a call.
I have been in the process of cleaning up the office. There is 15 years of neglect in this room. The latest effort has been very simple. Fill the garbage can all the way to the top each week for Trash Tringle to take on Wednesday. Two terrible gut wrenching cases are gone. A third is still in here and needs to be sorted and removed. All in all I have cleaned out two closets swept and swept and swept and swept. The room now has horizontal surfaces but is still covered with dust in places. I sort of like being in the room again so it has once again begun to collect clutter. Turns out it's a pretty good chair to play fiddle out of so I may get a wall hanger and put a fiddle in here. I'm sick of cleaning and the rest of the house is a horrific pit. This room was full of a lot of unpleasant memories. The practice of law can be a very lonely and sad experience since courts are almost never involved un less something has broken, the law, an agreement, a relationship, an understanding, the peace; you get the drift.
The process would not be so demoralizing except that every room of the house is the same way. My life has been filled with trash. Well, I'm tired, I am taking one more look at the kitchen then giving up. I will wash the dishes in the stopped up sink and rinse them in the bathroom. SCREW!
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