this is an african violet flower

i posted this flower about three weeks ago, titled, “what am i?” Then my blog broke. This is the amazing part, this one flower was connected to another…like the letter Y, with two flowers at the top of the Y. This wee flower lived for two weeks…as it began to collapse on itself, its twin…

“Let me narrow this down for you Southerners”

Winter in Alabama is so crazy. It can be 70F one day, then 30F degrees the next. Jack Frost took the pepper mint candy color out of my flower. Crazy weather tricked this to flower too soon. Crazy weather…but no one said it better than my friend Molly as seen above on her Facebook page….

how to change the world

“BEE the reason someone smiles today” (Just so everyone understands the ‘bee’ replaces the word ‘be’) HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD ok, so maybe not the world, but perhaps your own? i meet strangers every time i go out to shop. i sometimes think (a side effect of being a hermit) how amazing it is…

how i keep Coco’s cage clean

Hamsters are super cute. but the do pee a lot. so to save me time & money, i bought, ‘Pure Nature’ cat litter. it is made from cedar, pine & corn. I put it at the bottom of her cage, then cover that with the regular hamster pet bedding stuff. This keeps her cage cleaner…

I demand your attention

geez, how can you not have it?! these suckers grow in winter in Alabama. how cool, or freezing, is that?