Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tales

While I was away for ten days, I was worried my plants would die. I bought a self-watering system, but it was basically hoses and water bottles, so I worried I'd come home to dead plants.

Instead my plants sent me a message: STAY AWAY! They grew a ton while I was gone, so big and thick.



Everything got so big! On the far left are the sunflowers (already starting to bloom but not even two feet tall yet -- odd!), close up in the round pot is the thyme (which originally looked like these little sicky sprouts), in the back is basil and chives and parsley -- all of them so lush!, and on the far right is some kind of flower (the empty pot next to it never had anything in it).

Oddly, my basil seedlings all died a fast, harsh death, but the ones I grew from a seed are growing like weeds.

The flowers all look a little ratty (I think something's eating them), but the herbs are amazing. I really have to figure out something to do with it all.

( KORRA KORRA KORRA (spoilers for this week's ep) )

So! Poll time!

[Poll #1847435]

I didn't realize how bad I was at RPing Thistle's IC garden. My RL one is being visited by the Plagues of Egypt. Wait, there was a Plague of Powdery Mildews, right?

Yesterday I went out to check and see how my plants were doing in our uncharacteristic rain. They're under an overhang, so they don't get rained on directly, but they were still nice and damp so I was happy. Until I noticed the rosemary looked like it had been snowed on. Hm.

Google tells me it's likely Powdery Mildew, a common plant disease. If this were a flower or something, I'd be less upset, but it's on a herb I'd like to one day eat! And will it spread to the others? (Survey says... YEP!) I thought about digging up and throwing out the rosemary, since only it had signs, but it was so badly covered with the stuff that I figured the spores must have spread already.

Sigh. Growing plants is way too much trouble. Going into this, I thought my worst trouble might be squirrels eating things. Now I have bugs and mold and blah. Thistle's IC garden grew fine in RP! :P

Speaking of RP, Penny is four months old now. For those playing at home, that's this big:

She'd be looking all grown up!

And I haven't been RPing at all lately, which has me very depressed. Ore, ore, ore, ore. All I do in game anymore is make money. I spent 6 hours yesterday on it, 8 hours each night before that, and even more over the weekend. I finally crossed the million gold mark (again), but it's at a high cost. I meant to take a break and RP last night... but then a ton of cheap ore got listed at the AH. When I hit a million last night I said that would be the end of my ore buying... then this morning there were 150 seriously cheap stacks up. Sigh. I'm just going to move my buy price lower. I'll only deal with the cheapest of cheap ores. I will take my free time back! ...but there's so much money to be made.

Lots of little pieces that I've been meaning to post about.

The "garden" (various pots of plants) is going well. I'm hoping to do more planting tomorrow, I have to go out and get more soil/pots. Some of the wee little seedlings need to be moved into bigger pots, I think. Also, one of the random seedlings is a sunflower, so I need some kind of a tiny little cage for it. Poor thing keeps flopping over, it is too tall and too thin to hold up its leaves.

Pictures will be posted sooner or later!

WoW: We took a group trip to ICC the other night, and our party makeup made it amusing. Basically all hunters. We did have a spiffy tank and a healer, but we did pet tanking as well. And by "we" I mean "people more skilled than I". I mostly just stood around and shot things.

Alas, none of the daggers I wanted dropped, but oh well. More and more of my RP is over IM, so it doesn't really matter all that much.

WoW AH: Thanks to a tip from jadall, I've been making money hand over fist. I hadn't done the Obsidium Shuffle since early in Cata, but someone dumped a mess of cheap ores on the AH, so I snagged 500 or so stacks of it. I mentioned it a while back. I'm still selling the results of it. It's a lot of work, but I've made about about 14K off it, very roughly estimated. It's slowing down now, but thanks to it, it's looking more and more likely that I'll hit a million gold again soonish (under 80K more to go).

FFXI: (Yes, FFXI news!) kaelash found an amusing old picture, done by Draque (I can't find his LJ name).

That made me laugh. :D (The answer: That moss for G1, from that cave with the crawlers. It had to be kept warm and moist, so where better!)

In picking out the icon for this post, it's sad how wrong "dark knight" now feels. My brain wants to correct it to "death knight". But on the other side of the coin, I watched some random FFXI CoP video I had saved on my work machine, and it amazed me how well I could follow the battle by sound effects alone. Even these years later, I can follow the audio cues so much better than I can in WoW. I'm not sure if the ones in WoW aren't as clear (I don't think that can be the case?), or if it's that I "PvE"ed more in FFXI. Voking, stoneshell, dispel, slow, haste, ice spikes -- I'm not 100% sure I have the names all correct, but I sure did recognize them in the video.

Also, a comm rec: drawsome. People submit drawings from that... what's it called... that app. Like pictionary with friends. They're surprisingly good and generally amusing!

I'm starting this backwards. I went out to buy a bench or small table, something I could set up pots on, but instead I found lots of pots and no table!

I got a lot more than I intended to, too.

First thing I spotted were these tiny little pots, maybe one inch high, with different sorts of flowers. At 88 cents each, I bought three different ones. They came with their own little bits of soil and seeds, and were just so darned cute. Those I started tonight.

Second thing was a "herb garden". A long container, soil, and three different herbs. Two of the herbs were ones I didn't really need, but it was so cute I got it anyway.

I got a set of three small pots all attached to a tray, very cute, but now I'm thinking they might actually be too small. :/ I need to get a bigger pot for when I get live plants from the farmer's market.

The last thing I got was a strawberry pot (again with soil and seeds). The pot was so cutely painted and had lots of little holes for runners, I had to get it. (Sensing a theme here? So cute!)

Big Lot (a dollar store type place) is actually not very cheap at all. Well. Cheap quality, not cheap prices. I should have run next door to OSH (hardware store) to look for benches/tables, but one store per day is about my shopping limit. Maybe tomorrow!