Bye Bye Irises...Hello Yard Work

Going GREEN

Welcome to Home Haven!

Dear Blogger Friend, Hello from the Kansas Flinthills. I am counting the days til my blogger techie assistant will bless my blog with photos of the Flinthills as well as the many other pics I'd like to share so my blog isn't just printed words, but also shows an interest in the visual arts. Images add interest.

I have a love for artificial flowers and plants. Though I cherish the real thing, fake flowers are in almost every room of our house. When it comes time to dust, I notice these fake treasures that need a bath.

There's a wooden hurricane lamp holder hanging on the wall upstairs in the hallway. It's been waiting for the lamp to make it's way from the garage into the house, but it seems that the forgotten lamp is no where to be found as the wooden holder hangs alone. So, I just took 2 clumps of fake jumbo sized sunflowers on fuzzy stems and added them to the holder. It looks great! Now 2 items in the house have come together to serve a purpose for eye candy and dust collecting.

A few minutes ago as I was outside picking up a basket with artificial roses in it that the Kansas wind blew off of a bench and onto the ground, it hit me that I really like flowers. Though my middle name is Fern, I don't have a green thumb and my house plants usually die. For so many reasons, I forget to water and feed them!
No need to be green with envy.

It is far safer for me to house artificial plants, flowers and arrangements.

Many a moon ago, I placed my live plants in the bath tub for safe keeping while we were on an extended vacation. After reading an article about creating a green house in the tub so you could go off and enjoy a vacation while the plants were thriving in the green house tub (and wouldn't need a human to water them) I decided...well even I could do this and wouldn't have to worry.

It was great, since we had an over sized tub. I followed the directions to the T. Went off and had a wonderful family vacation. It was great! We had so much fun on this inexpensive vacation.

Upon returning home, I noticed that everything else in the house looked alright. No intruders, all is at rest. Then I walked into the bathroom to check out my lovely plants. Yes, they were all there...floating in and under bathtub water. There had been a malfunction in my miniature green house and the majority of the lovely plants had drowned.

Hum. What could I say, but hum and clean up the mess and grow a weakness for the fake stuff. God has been gracious to me and allowed somebody from history to create artificial greenery! God has been gracious to me. How about you? May you have a blessed day, week, year and life. May there be nothing artificial about that!

God Bless you REAL good,
Deanna