I am so ashamed that I have neglected my African Violets so long! Many had very twisty stems under their crowns as if they were trying to find room to grow in their too tight pots. When I lost two of them last week, I decided it was time to take action to save them! They had provided me with months of cheery little flowers, mostly from the plant food I offered them on a sporadic week. They would get so dry! I forgot the winter sun was closer to the earth (I’ve known this forever though!) Then I pulled this out of my cross stitch pile of WIPs (yeah it’s aida, but I love the color):

“To grow ’em is to love ’em”

Well I wasn’t showing much love for these beauties, many bought each year by my mom at the Philly Flower show. I remembered I had a bag of AV dirt, so I retrieved that, lined the dining room table with newspapers, and got to work! Over 2 hours later and working with 16 or so plants, I was finished. I had run out of dirt, but I now only have a few left to repot or add dirt to. I also cleaned off the windowsill and had a lot to clean up from the kitchen to the family room. But now it looks like this:

I have three of these ‘Frozen in Time’ AVs! Mom must have really liked it or I told her not to get me purple.

And here’s the whole window (the yellow is a faux orchid):

It was a job well done and made me forget about my allergy attack for a little bit, though I got really warm when I was running back and forth with the plants. I hope they all make it!

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Crossing fingers that Sean gets to see Bill Clinton tonight at PSU and Barack Obama tomorrow (I think). We’ve never seen a President in person. The ‘closest’ I got to a prez was seeing Ted Kennedy crossing the street in Washington, DC as a kid on a school trip. Sean wasn’t sure if he’d go, but I told him the above and he has a new digital camera too!