Domestic affairs

[lblanchard]

Just a quick note in my daybook:

Yesterday the workerpersons were here and patched all the nasty bits of plaster around the house. We'll prime the ones we can reach before painterpersons come in to do the actual painting next spring.

This also meant moving several dozen hippeastrums and schlumbergera into the dark for a day. I moved them back first thing this morning. Roy didn't get why I was in such an all-fired hurry to do this, but I wasn't up for explaining photoperiodicity and how I may have screwed up the holiday blooming season with this caper.

I was trapped in the third floor rear for a couple hours while the workerpersons had ladders set up on the landing and/or the stairwell. Among other things, I potted up several rooted coleus and begonia cuttings. Later this week we will install a fresh bank of fluorescent bulbs in the basement and I can clear some windowsill space for whatever hippeastrums are blooming. Selfish creature that I am, I want them where I can see them while I work.

Comments

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

One day in the dark would screw up the blooming season? Oh dear.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

One day is all right, probably. A couple days would not be good. These aren't your regular hybrid hippeastrums but rather my evergreen species hippeastrums.