Lavender

Let me explain this whole "ecocube" business to you. 

One day, you may be searching through the beautiful Chapters website looking for a $10 item to add to your order to receive free shipping. (Free being the Mennonite way) All of a sudden, you stumble upon a collection of ecocubes that promise a future of flowers. 

Each ecocube comes fully loaded, flower already planted in the soil. All you have to do is water the cube and let it bask in the sunlight. How hard can it be?

Well, the cube suggests that it should take approximately 2 weeks for the dear plant to arrive above the soil. I had almost lost hope in my plant nurturing abilities, when I discovered a little leaf poking through about 4 1/2 weeks after beginning germination. 

I feel I was quite justified in my lack of hope. Our humble abode is a rather difficult place to grow and maintain the life of a houseplant.

If you Google "who can't keep a houseplant alive", I guarantee Google Maps will zero in on our humble abode.

Now, I don't blame the humble abode. I blame the people. I would like to say that it is just our generations but I fear we acquired such a trait from Oma. 

I am happy to report that the lavender is still alive. A mere inch above the soil, it towers over the three-legged table it rests upon.

Every day the lavender gets to take a trip from its three-legged table by the east window, to the dining room table at the west window. Sometimes I really wonder why people buy homes that don't have southward facing windows. 

Whatever the case, I feel that I have taken our inability to grow plants and turned it a couple degrees to the positive. I feel it's too early to declare a full 180.

Brought to by 11 degrees Celsius at 9pm on March 8/16, this is t-bear signing off