Last weekend, I was sitting outside on my patio participating in a zoom call, as we do these days. I kept looking underneath our little porch at quite the collection of empty planters abandoned under there. It was like a graveyard for dead plants of the past.
I may have stalled out on my home improvement list when I realized that we were going to move sometime soon, but I wanted to do something. Just because I didn’t want to improve our current home didn’t mean that I couldn’t find some new plant babies to add to our life and hopefully edify our future home.
I pulled the planters out. Jax inspected.
After a quick spray with the hose to clean out the likely million spiders living in the planters, I was off to Home Depot to buy some plant babies. Nearly a hundred bucks later, I was home and getting my plant on.
The combination of sunshine, quality time with my dogs and the feeling of actually getting my hands dirty and doing something of real life value felt SO good.
The next day, we found our new home! I had no idea it was going to happen like that because I saw the posting on craigslist in the morning and we visited the property at 2pm the same day. We applied on Monday and signed the lease on Wednesday in the fastest and easiest rental transaction in the history of the Bay Area.
I bought these plant babies with the full faith we were going to find a new home. I was finally ready and brave enough to make a change. I just didn’t know the change was going to happen the very next day. Isn’t it crazy that life works that way? You don’t even know when you wake up in the morning that your life is going to shift so dramatically so quickly, but once you decide it’s like it’s already done.
Are you doing home improvement projects these days? Are you a plant lady? I love them so much, but I confess that Keith is the person in our home who keeps our plants alive. I buy them, he cares for them. 🙂
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