Reflections of My Life

katlupe said:
I have not been able to write or talk about this yet. My heart is broken forever. Last Wednesday, the 15th, my bunny boy died. I have been with many people and pets that died. His was the hardest yet for me. Maybe because he was with me all the time, all day, every day. I prayed for him to die because it was time. He was sleeping all day and not eating. But he fought it. Kicking his feet right at the end. He lived a long life for a bunny, 11 years. I am thankful I had him.

Just very hard to get used to my apartment without him. It is so quiet, not that he made much noise, but I knew he was there. My last pet.

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Oh Kat, I am so terribly sorry for your loss of your bunny, I know how much you loved it.....very very sad. take care.....😢
 

Well, I guess I survived another day. Didn't do much. Did a bit of hand washing some laundry which is hanging in the shower now. Got a grocery delivery for my son. So I sat outside in the sun while I waited for it around noon. Talked to Sonny on the phone for awhile. I don't really want to talk to him while he is staying at his daughter's. He puts me on the speaker phone and I hear all the noise going on around him. Television, her dogs, kids, etc. So loud to me even though I turn the sound on my phone down. I can wait till he goes home. At least there all I hear are his dogs barking every time a car drives by.
Coco said:
I've been reading your posts, kat. You are such a wonderful writer and story teller so I started from your first days, had to take a break to write this post and will go back and read a bit more. Do hope Sonny feels better for you and his pups.
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Thank you very much! One of these days I need to do the same, go back and read from the beginning. Shows me how far I have come. That is why I keep my journals and read them every now and then. Reminds me of why or how I did things a few years back.
 
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This morning I am making 2 batches of keto (no cheese) chaffles. I am making the butterscotch flavored ones since the last time I tried that those were delicious. Instead of cornbread flavored for the other batch I am going to try pumpkin spice instead. I think that would be good too. Especially this time of the year. I am adding a couple "carby" foods back into my food plan. Sweet potatoes and butternut squash. I will see how I do with those.

Before quitting sugar and high carbs one of my favorite things this time a year was pumpkin doughnuts and Bryne Dairy's pumpkin pie ice cream. Using keto chow's salted caramel I add pumpkin spice to that and make pumpkin ice cream. So I have it year round. At my homestead I grew a lot of butternut squash and made bread with it that was just like pumpkin bread. Since I canned the squash I made that year round also. I even baked that in the summer in my solar oven.

My hairdresser gave me a dozen eggs that her kids got from their chickens. That was a nice bonus at my hair appointment!
 
About a month ago I was on the verge of throwing my two African violets in the trash. Just tired of moving them around, watering them and caring for them. I had thrown my other houseplants away already. Just had these two and the aloe plant left. I had switched the African violets into pots that are called "self water". But I still have to pour the water into the bottom container of the pot. One of these plants I got from my father's house when he died in 2012. I started the other one myself from a leaf from that plants.

I have never been able to get an African violet to blossom after I bought it. It would come home covered with flowers and that would be it. But this one blossoms all the time. All year long and not just one or two. I waited to see if it would blossom after I changed the pots. At first it did not and I kept saying in the fall I was throwing it in the dumpster. All of a sudden it started blossoming and now I have flowers on both. So I moved them to my computer table for the winter. Keeping it for now.
 
katlupe said:
About a month ago I was on the verge of throwing my two African violets in the trash. Just tired of moving them around, watering them and caring for them. I had thrown my other houseplants away already. Just had these two and the aloe plant left. I had switched the African violets into pots that are called "self water". But I still have to pour the water into the bottom container of the pot. One of these plants I got from my father's house when he died in 2012. I started the other one myself from a leaf from that plants.

I have never been able to get an African violet to blossom after I bought it. It would come home covered with flowers and that would be it. But this one blossoms all the time. All year long and not just one or two. I waited to see if it would blossom after I changed the pots. At first it did not and I kept saying in the fall I was throwing it in the dumpster. All of a sudden it started blossoming and now I have flowers on both. So I moved them to my computer table for the winter. Keeping it for now.
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Some African violets are ever blooming, and some are periodic bloomers with a full head of flowers.
African violets love to be groomed.
 
katlupe said:
About a month ago I was on the verge of throwing my two African violets in the trash. Just tired of moving them around, watering them and caring for them. I had thrown my other houseplants away already. Just had these two and the aloe plant left. I had switched the African violets into pots that are called "self water". But I still have to pour the water into the bottom container of the pot. One of these plants I got from my father's house when he died in 2012. I started the other one myself from a leaf from that plants.

I have never been able to get an African violet to blossom after I bought it. It would come home covered with flowers and that would be it. But this one blossoms all the time. All year long and not just one or two. I waited to see if it would blossom after I changed the pots. At first it did not and I kept saying in the fall I was throwing it in the dumpster. All of a sudden it started blossoming and now I have flowers on both. So I moved them to my computer table for the winter. Keeping it for now.
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I know it sounds ridiculous but try talking to them and maybe play some nice music for them. I suck with plants. I almost took the life of a geranium. Had to give it back to the lady that gave it to me so she could nurse it back to health. She wanted to give it back to me and I told her Niam Leaveson was safer at her house. LOL
 
Fritz said:
I know it sounds ridiculous but try talking to them and maybe play some nice music for them. I suck with plants. I almost took the life of a geranium. Had to give it back to the lady that gave it to me so she could nurse it back to health. She wanted to give it back to me and I told her Niam Leaveson was safer at her house. LOL
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It isn't that I can't take care of them. I just don't want to anymore. Tired of moving them around, watering and pruning.
 

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