greenery

About 9 months ago, my mom gave me 5 or 6 large plants that she and my dad had pretty much given up on that were sitting in their laundry room. Yeah, the room gets a lot of light, but you can imagine that even with good light, anything left in the laundry room probably wasn't considered that important. So, with some hesitation, i took the plants and put them in my kitchen. My kitchen has a huge window seat that currently houses a 40 gallon turtle tank where DeDe, DoDo, Tank and Spaz live. They are Red Ear Sliders. Even with the tank, there's still plenty of room for the plants that were passed on in a state that appeared close to death. I nursed them back to health over the last bunch of months and now they are blooming and budding like i've never seen before. I started to get this itch after seeing the buds and the general state of well being that I'd brought these plants back to. So, i went on my first field trip to Lowes Home Improvement to purchase more plants. There's a good feeling you get from standing in a room full of green and hapiness, so i thought i'd test out my abilities further. Two hours later and $90 shorter, i now have a kitchen that resembles a Brazilian rain forest. I have plants in there i've never seen before. i have cactii, i have tall plants, short plants, flowering plants, one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish... My old roommate had left a few habanero plants when he moved out, so those were replanted and i picked up two jalepeno plants and a banana pepper plant. I'm growing my own vegetables!!!!! I hate vegetables!!!! Anyway, my roommate must think i'm nuts, but the turtles all have smiles on their faces and the fact that both of my thumbs are now a sea-foam green pleases me to no end.