Helen Plus Three

Pink Episcia, sweet blooms from my balcony garden Plans never always turn out the way you expect them. So instead of driving across the causeway tomorrow I'm spending the long break at home in Singapore. It will mean I'll be getting 6 hours more rest than I would have plus plus, of course add on the traffic jam time crawling across the causeway back and forth. There's a always a silver lining somewhere when you think about it. It probably also means I'll be doing more sleeping than I had planned. Is that good? I don't think so. Quiet time, time to read the books, fiddle with the plants, time to do some more scrapbook card experiments and may be more time to do some walking trails and therefore exercise. We do have a lot of parks, just check check out the N Parks website. Amazing actually, there's so many. I'm thinking let's check out the Labrador with a friend. Will Lo Hei (toss raw fish) after the weekend. There were no eggs at ...

Bought a couple of books on houseplants from Amazon, can't wait for them to arrive. Been busy with kids' stuff, time to get back to my blogging, my reading ...and my scrapbooking... but first my gardening... Lipstick. surviving and flowering after a break... These hang outside my home where some of the morning sun can catch them. This variety of money plant (pothos) is doing well but the Song of India sitting just behind it as wilted away rapidly recently.  The green non-flowering plants are surviving better. But there are elements of the humidity and wind factor that have a sad impact on my houseplants. Mostly a whole plant can go from healthy to sudden decline very fast and there's nothing I can seem to do to slow or stop it from dying eventually.