Minutiae

I have been busy at work on a wholesale order. This weekend some new items will finally get posted if all goes well. I've been busy.

I have a giant corn plant on my desk at my day job and when I returned to work on Monday it looked ill.
OMG! Corn Plant! It was covered with yellow and brown spots. I feared a bug so I called over a co-worker who knows plants. He suggested taking a sample of the damage to a nursery. Another co-worker had a super duper magnifying lens and checked for bugs. I trimmed off the ugly, diseased looking leaves and Corn Plant didn't look so bad.
I took a sample of the "illness" to Shoal Creek nursery and the guy said, over watering with tap water. Tap water?! Corn Plant only gets Sparkletts. He said office plants quite often get those hard water stains or mineral stains because co-workers dump their leftover beverages into plants. He said it could have been coffee even. YUK!
I was relieved to find out it was not a bug or some plant disease. That's the first time I have been so invested in a plant, worried about it, sad that it was ill. But I *heart* Corn Plant. It is started to look much better.

There has been a lot of plant talk these days. The yard needs landscaping so we are doing some Fall work and planning for Spring.
Taking down the nearly dead Cottonwood and putting in two or three oaks instead? I don't know, we want a Magnolia tree but heard those are best left for a back yard. In the back yard: bringing in a Weeping Willow and putting down more grass. Maybe heirloom roses, but...I have no green thumb, so maybe not.

There has been talk of Christmas too.....I guess it is around the corner. I should be thinking more about it since it is my busiest time. I have been so behind this year.