So, I am back to my old hobby. Dryer's fixed. Washer has a new knob. But it was close there, when things were at their darkest, no dryer, knob on the washer breaking off, I was this close to spending several hundred dollars to fix $20 worth of problems. Arrgh.

For some reason, one of my bird of paradise plants is dying. Other one looks great, so I'm not sure what the problem might be, since I treat them the same. Just dunno. Divided the aloe vera plant, and I'm not so sure it was the best time of year to do that. But my sister passed along a bunch of hens-and-chicks, and I had more than one pot of those so I had to uncrowd the aloe to intersperse with the hens-and-chicks and oh, well, that's how it goes when I start getting my hands in the dirt.

The volunteer tomatoes are doing amazingly well. For something springing up in the ersatz mulch pile, they're looking better than any I've paid good money for. Hope I haven't jinxed myself. The strawberry's a goner. I guess Flip's right-I don't bring home plants, I bring home more "victims".