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April Flowers

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Tomorrow I am hoping to go to the nearby nursery and get some new flowers for my balcony garden. I’m not sure what I’m going to get; I usually just walk around and see what strikes my fancy. I do have a dilemma to solve… I have a very large spider plant… the pot is not quite a foot and a half across. The thing is gigantic. I really don’t want it to be any bigger. First, because I can’t move it on my own as it is. And second, because it’s on a plant stand and a bigger pot won’t fit. The problem is that it’s broken its pot. A good sized chuck of pot just popped off the side, so when I water it the water just goes everywhere instead of staying in the pot (this is how I found out there was a problem). So, I’m looking for opinions.

Tulips!

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My tulips seem to have weathered the rainy winter much better than the iris bulbs I planted. My crocus bulbs seem to have been hit or miss. I’m afraid that for several of the bulbs the rain just made them rot. My bearded irises are starting to shoot up, too. Yeah, for spring flowers. I had to drive up to San Bruno to see my chiropractor this afternoon and the dandilions are blooming along the Palo Alto section of 280. Very pretty.

Meanwhile, there was yarn…

This is about 140 yards of a 60% silk/40% wool yarn. I haven’t measured the wpi, so I don’t know if it classifies as lace weight, or if it’s fingering weight. The silk is multi-colored: pink, yellow, green, blue… I got it from The Silk Worker. The blue ply is a 80% wool/20% silk that I got off eBay.

Okay, I’m going to go have soup now… soup is good.