I managed some restraint today!
Thursday, March 27th, 2008OK, now don’t count the money I spent on the lens. I already confessed that sin. I was at The Home Depot to get some fertilizer for my palms and picked up a pygmy date palm and put it in my cart. Then I walked around oohing and ahhing over all the gorgeous plants I wanted to take home. I knew that they were be lucky if they got planted before they wilted and died and if they did make it in the ground, they would probably die of thirst.
This happens to be our dry time of the year. And though we have been getting some good rain, it’s not enough to make a new plant thrive. No, they need daily water. Now I could turn on my sprinklers but I haven’t gotten them fixed after my neighbors slow leaked caused untold erosion and undermined my system. Things have had a chance to settle but being the procrastinator that I am, I haven’t called anyone.
So instead of paying $4.99 for a plant that probably would die at my home, I put it back until I take care of the water issue first. Then I went to Baskin Robbins for a single cone which cost $2.56. For one scoop. And one cone.