Post 4th of July
Jul. 7th, 2020 09:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thagirionHope all my American friends here had a good 4th. Despite finding out my dad died that day I had a good one. It was our 24 year 6 month anniversary as well. The house was nicely decorated so we enjoyed that. We listed to some patriotic songs then after the bad news we pretty much stayed home all day. That night we watched the local fireworks. I got a few on video.
https://youtu.be/qVWcRyLr9p4
The next day I was down about my dad. Chris stayed home to be with me. He's so wonderful that way. Chris did a lot of stuff around the house for me in the yard. My fave thing was he took out the stone border of the front garden and made it at an angel so we can expand the garden. I'm thinking of taking it all down and starting completely over. I want that to be a very nice desert garden. I'm growing lots of cactuses from seeds and want to put some of my own plants out there. So I was very impressed by that.
Yesterday the 6th I stayed home. I found this new online store that I really like called The Succulent Source. I have added them to my birthday wish list that's pinned on my journal here. That's definitely a priority if anyone wants to get me a gift card from there. Anyway I ordered a special cactus Trichocereus grandifolours with orange flowers. I love orange, peach or salmon colored flowers. I think they are my faves and then yellows with pink. Since there technically are no blue flowers that's what I like. Blue is a rare color in nature actually. They use FedEx and that's not the best thing. Last time my order was slow. Over a week to get here. This time I've been watching the tracking. It was supposed to arrive yesterday in the evening. Well it didn't even get loaded on the truck. After I refreshed it gave me a big red X. It was in Tampa but then it said something like delayed rescheduled. I wish I had taken a screen cap because I could tell by the wording what happened was they forgot to load my box onto the truck so it just sat at their office all day yesterday. They should prioritize and send that to me first on the route because of that screw up. So I'm again impatiently waiting on it today. This is not a knock at the company. This is FedEx that sucks. It is out for delivery on the truck it says.
I was happy with my last order. They've done well. They also called me to tell me this cactus has a scar and if that's ok with me. That's good customer service. I said yes. So long as it grows and is healthy. I wanted that specific one for the flower color. I don't even know how big this is as the photo was just a close up of the flower. In fact here it is.
I'll also be getting a tiny pup of an aloe castilloniae which is a rare and cool looking aloe. It has an olive green body with clear red thorns. I also love that they have plants at great prices when others sell plants at stupid expensive prices. This is a "rare expensive" aloe that on other stores goes for $75 bucks. That's stupid. I got mine for $7 and their bigger ones aren't that much more expensive. Under 20 I think so it's very reasonable. So I hope this is a big cactus like last time too.
Lastly just want to mention one of the cute things Chris does for me every night. It's little things like this why he's so wonderful. I have acid reflux so before I go to bed I have to take an antacid every night. I also get dyhydrated and need water by the bed in case I wake up dry.
Chris usually goes and gets the bedroom ready before I go in and I love walking to my side of the bed and finding a fresh water bottle and a cute pink pill on top so I can't miss it. He's so sweet and this makes me very happy. Cute pink pill haha.
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https://youtu.be/qVWcRyLr9p4
The next day I was down about my dad. Chris stayed home to be with me. He's so wonderful that way. Chris did a lot of stuff around the house for me in the yard. My fave thing was he took out the stone border of the front garden and made it at an angel so we can expand the garden. I'm thinking of taking it all down and starting completely over. I want that to be a very nice desert garden. I'm growing lots of cactuses from seeds and want to put some of my own plants out there. So I was very impressed by that.
Yesterday the 6th I stayed home. I found this new online store that I really like called The Succulent Source. I have added them to my birthday wish list that's pinned on my journal here. That's definitely a priority if anyone wants to get me a gift card from there. Anyway I ordered a special cactus Trichocereus grandifolours with orange flowers. I love orange, peach or salmon colored flowers. I think they are my faves and then yellows with pink. Since there technically are no blue flowers that's what I like. Blue is a rare color in nature actually. They use FedEx and that's not the best thing. Last time my order was slow. Over a week to get here. This time I've been watching the tracking. It was supposed to arrive yesterday in the evening. Well it didn't even get loaded on the truck. After I refreshed it gave me a big red X. It was in Tampa but then it said something like delayed rescheduled. I wish I had taken a screen cap because I could tell by the wording what happened was they forgot to load my box onto the truck so it just sat at their office all day yesterday. They should prioritize and send that to me first on the route because of that screw up. So I'm again impatiently waiting on it today. This is not a knock at the company. This is FedEx that sucks. It is out for delivery on the truck it says.
I was happy with my last order. They've done well. They also called me to tell me this cactus has a scar and if that's ok with me. That's good customer service. I said yes. So long as it grows and is healthy. I wanted that specific one for the flower color. I don't even know how big this is as the photo was just a close up of the flower. In fact here it is.
I'll also be getting a tiny pup of an aloe castilloniae which is a rare and cool looking aloe. It has an olive green body with clear red thorns. I also love that they have plants at great prices when others sell plants at stupid expensive prices. This is a "rare expensive" aloe that on other stores goes for $75 bucks. That's stupid. I got mine for $7 and their bigger ones aren't that much more expensive. Under 20 I think so it's very reasonable. So I hope this is a big cactus like last time too.
Lastly just want to mention one of the cute things Chris does for me every night. It's little things like this why he's so wonderful. I have acid reflux so before I go to bed I have to take an antacid every night. I also get dyhydrated and need water by the bed in case I wake up dry.
Chris usually goes and gets the bedroom ready before I go in and I love walking to my side of the bed and finding a fresh water bottle and a cute pink pill on top so I can't miss it. He's so sweet and this makes me very happy. Cute pink pill haha.
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