Especially when they look a little risqué, as this one does. It reminds me of a painting by Rubens, and I’m just “cheeky” enough to enjoy it. See the resemblance?
Now, as much as I enjoy houseplants, they do not contribute to a simplified lifestyle. I’m having to re-think my strategy. In truth, most of my “houseplants” stay outside in the spring and summer, but are put into the garage during the winter months. I can’t have many houseplants, because I have five cats (and no brain!). Those fe-lions don’t respect anything
If I have plants inside, the cats use the containers as litter boxes, they chew the leaves, and then throw up on the carpet. Usually that happens right after I have thoroughly cleaned the house, and immediately before the company arrives. I can’t keep up with that.
It’s not just the cats that create the problem, though. I can get in a hurry watering the plants, get a little sloppy, and the next thing I know I have water spots on my Aunt La Verta’s oak center table. Move a ficus, and it gets temperamental and drops leaves, which I get to try to keep off the floor. Long ago, I gave up trying to have my house look like the pictures in the magazines. The few plants that I keep inside are on high windowsills which are inaccessible to the cats.
This spring, I noticed ants in my kitchen and discovered that they had come through the window to take up residence in the pot of a “bird’s nest fern.” I need an ant infestation like I need another hole in my head!
This year, when we brought the plants out of the garage, it finally struck me. Out of twenty-eight potted plants, nineteen were just aloe vera! Now, aloe vera is a fine plant, but unless I’m planning on getting a lot of burns (the juice in their leaves is soothing to burns) I don’t need that many!
Part of my attempt to simplify our world will be to find good homes for these plants. It will be a relief not to have to take care of them anymore! Does anyone want to adopt an aloe vera?
This journey began on a separate blog (you can click here to read About Out Of Chaos), but that wasn’t really simplifying was it? I moved all of the posts to This Eclectic Life under the category Out Of Chaos. I’ll be adding more from time to time. I hope you join me.
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