Houseplants

Last night I noticed that a couple of our houseplants were looking a tad dusty. Being as we're emerging from a long, cold winter (with concurrent construction behind our house), I find we have to vacuum, sweep the floor, and dust much more often than normal.  The only other place I've ever had to do this upkeep as constantly was when we lived in arid Utah. Nate loves to use the spray bottle, so I figured I could enlist his help to give our adored plants a little spray.

We have houseplants in each of the eight rooms in our house. All of the plants have either been saved from the nursery clearance racks or are cuttings transplanted from the original plant. At any given time we usually have a few cuttings lined up on our kitchen sink windowsill. I think we have plenty of room for even more.

I gathered the smaller downstairs houseplants and placed them on the floor of our kitchen. After a long, gray winter, all these plants clustered together was a beautiful sight to behold.

Though I do prefer cooler weather over hot weather, I was growing a bit weary with not being able to at least open the windows for fresh air.  So it was such a reprieve to open the windows for a bit this afternoon as we almost reached 50 degrees. It is especially nice to read next to an open window. Here are a few of the current books Andy and I are reading: Positivity by Barbara Fredrickson (me), Consilience by E.O. Wilson (Andy), and collected stories by Jorge Luis Borges.  Though neither of us have a tremendous amount of time to read these days, but we both try to allot a little time here and there as we can.