A slice of life. Bread & Flowers.

 A little slice of heaven? Yesterday a very thoughtful neighbour stopped in for a social distancing visit. He brought a loaf of bread with him to give to me. I haven't seen bread since March. I have never enjoyed a slice of bread so much or appreciated eating one as I did last night.

 See! I'm not making this up, it's actual real life slices of bread! First I just enjoyed a slice with butter, I wanted to savor the moment. Then I had two slices with peanut butter and jam, mmmm so good. I had some for breakfast too. I think this is probably something that will stick with me for life. I imagine going forward, every time I buy a loaf of bread, I will think about the time I was basically under house arrest because other people were too stupid to follow simple directions.

 Moving on to spring, although ironically the weather is calling for snow tonight and tomorrow. The temperature is supposed to suddenly drop because the polar vortex is coming back for a visit... oh yay, like that relative who always shows up unannounced and not welcomed.

 Yesterday I did cuttings of my grandmother's Coleus flowers. I'm the last one of the family who is keeping the tradition going. Everyone else is either too elderly now or moved to an apartment.

 There was almost a mass extinction of the Coleus in 2019, my sister lost all of hers to a fungus. Last spring 80% of my cuttings rotted just before I put them outside. The ones I planted did not do so well for a long time and finally rebounded by fall. However when I brought some in for this year, the rot came back with a vengeance. By Christmas I only had two little stems left about the size of my baby finger, less actually and with only a couple of leaves on each stem. I put my magic green thumb to work and I managed to save them. They grew enough to make all these cuttings.

 The cuttings save on me having to buy a lot of flowers, plus there is that connection to my maternal grandmother (who I still miss), this is what they look like by mid summer.

 Being the king of procrastination, I also did something yesterday that I should have done long ago, I sowed spinach seeds indoors. I have been thinking about doing this for five weeks now. If I had of gone ahead like I wanted, I probably would have been eating spinach leaves by now. Anyway our growing season doesn't start until June so I will have little plants ready by then, hopefully!

 Okay! Come on little guys grow! It's been 24 hours already, I'm not seeing anything! I'm going impatient! Lol