Weather and other mundane journalings
Jan. 25th, 2010 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lblanchardIt's raining pitchforks and hammer-handles and the temperature is 60F. Way too hot. It's 64F in my office and feels like a heat wave.
The new hippeastrums are both showing growth. Even if they don't bloom this year (although there's no reason they shouldn't), at least they're alive. Almost all the adolescents downstairs are showing new growth, as are all the adults. Well, the mother bulb of one of them isn't doing anything, but both of its offsets are.
Still no signs of pansy seedlings.
Last fall I was tapped to be a site visitor for the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, and over the past week I have visited the Eastern State Penitentiary, the Fairmount Park Historic Preservation Trust, and Laurel Hill (the mansion, not the cemetery). I'm very impressed with the way that all three of them are meeting their very different challenges. The Laurel Hill gang really resonates with me, though -- except for a part-time secretary, they're all volunteer. They maintain a historic house, raise funds for "minor" repairs (such as $10K for new gutters and other roof work, which in my book is no minor repair), hold public events and educational programs.
The new hippeastrums are both showing growth. Even if they don't bloom this year (although there's no reason they shouldn't), at least they're alive. Almost all the adolescents downstairs are showing new growth, as are all the adults. Well, the mother bulb of one of them isn't doing anything, but both of its offsets are.
Still no signs of pansy seedlings.
Last fall I was tapped to be a site visitor for the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, and over the past week I have visited the Eastern State Penitentiary, the Fairmount Park Historic Preservation Trust, and Laurel Hill (the mansion, not the cemetery). I'm very impressed with the way that all three of them are meeting their very different challenges. The Laurel Hill gang really resonates with me, though -- except for a part-time secretary, they're all volunteer. They maintain a historic house, raise funds for "minor" repairs (such as $10K for new gutters and other roof work, which in my book is no minor repair), hold public events and educational programs.
