Author: leilani

With everything happening over the past few weeks – work overload, grandson’s dad dying and daughter having to scramble to go get him, brother-in-law’s accident, yet another death in the extended family yesterday, etc., I’ ve shoved anything non-critical under the bed. Out of sight, out of (my) mind. I’m grateful for the OT pay,…

Deskified Working from home is da bomb. I’ll still be overjoyed when I can finally retire. Tired doesn’t begin to cover it. The new desk was already posted on FB a few days ago, so she’s not really news. She’s such a huge upgrade from what I was using before! She had to live on…

Welp, another plant bit the dust. This time we know who dunnit. Or more accurately, what dunnit. Our bird of paradise plant was doing great; then in a 24-hour period, it went from thriving to literally not a single leaf left on it. It was easy to identify the the murderers, because there were hundreds…

Good Geeze Louise. Didn’t we already complete this year’s family penance for daring to be alive? Guess not. Youngest daughter’s been back in the hospital; it’ll be a week tomorrow. She wasn’t able to keep anything down for days and days. Her liver enzymes were off the charts. (And to answer before you ask –…

Rethinking After reading more on the subject, I decided even if we can propagate one of the mimosa trees into our back yard (found out how – it’s a lot easier than what G tried to do), we shouldn’t and won’t. They’re an invasive species. A really, really invasive species. In fact, most nursery-sold trees…