Lemon Tree, Very Pretty
Dec. 6th, 2009 03:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daidoji_giseiMy life has been somewhat stressful and sometimes unpleasant the last few weeks, which has made it hard to journal. Some people find catharsis in writing down everything that is bothering them; I generally find it tedious. However! Today will be annoying because I'm not going to get all the housework I want to get done, done, but before noon three good things happened, so I cannot say it is going to be a bad day.
The first thing was,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yhlee wrote a story for me! It's a very short story to a two-word prompt I gave her, and it is every bit as wonderful as I expected. My story: Steel-Ever-Shining. I've read it like a dozen times already and it makes me smile every time. :-)
The second is, my lemon tree is really going to bloom! I kind of knew this last weekend, when in the course of giving showers to both citrus trees, three bell peppers plants, and two miniature rose bushes, I discovered that there was something that looked suspiciously like a flower bud on the meyer lemon. But this morning I was looking it over for signs of aphids (which are thick on my bell peppers, hence the showers last week) and discovered a whole clutch of buds hidden by a leaf. Lemon blossoms! My apartment will be graced with the delicate fragrance of lemon blossoms! *swoon*
This is all the more exciting to me because I've been a little worried about the lemon tree. The lime tree, when I got it home, sat for a week and then started growing out two spiky branches. The lemon tree did nothing, except to have leaves randomly go yellow and fall off. Quite nerve-wracking. But its fruits haven't fallen off--indeed, they are ripening nicely--and now it is going to bloom, so it can't be that unhappy with life.
The third thing is, it's snowing! A snowstorm rolled into Nebraska today; I saw the first few flakes as I came back from church this morning. The weather service is calling for 1-3" accumulation, which will make walking to work tomorrow annoying yet scenic. I'm looking forward to it.
The first thing was,
yhlee wrote a story for me! It's a very short story to a two-word prompt I gave her, and it is every bit as wonderful as I expected. My story: Steel-Ever-Shining. I've read it like a dozen times already and it makes me smile every time. :-)The second is, my lemon tree is really going to bloom! I kind of knew this last weekend, when in the course of giving showers to both citrus trees, three bell peppers plants, and two miniature rose bushes, I discovered that there was something that looked suspiciously like a flower bud on the meyer lemon. But this morning I was looking it over for signs of aphids (which are thick on my bell peppers, hence the showers last week) and discovered a whole clutch of buds hidden by a leaf. Lemon blossoms! My apartment will be graced with the delicate fragrance of lemon blossoms! *swoon*
This is all the more exciting to me because I've been a little worried about the lemon tree. The lime tree, when I got it home, sat for a week and then started growing out two spiky branches. The lemon tree did nothing, except to have leaves randomly go yellow and fall off. Quite nerve-wracking. But its fruits haven't fallen off--indeed, they are ripening nicely--and now it is going to bloom, so it can't be that unhappy with life.
The third thing is, it's snowing! A snowstorm rolled into Nebraska today; I saw the first few flakes as I came back from church this morning. The weather service is calling for 1-3" accumulation, which will make walking to work tomorrow annoying yet scenic. I'm looking forward to it.
