HennyPenny's random thoughts. New set of goals!

[hennypenny9]

As I mentioned, I went a bit nutty wanting to grow things. I blame it on two really long winters in a row. So here some of the things I have! Slightly pic heavy, I was carried away.

No idea what this is, but look at the baby shoots in the next pic!

Rosemary, and French Lavender

Garlic Chives and English Lavender

Catmint!

 

[hennypenny9]

My energy bill is $10 lower than last month! Compared to last year I used almost half as much wattage (or whatever you call it). So I don't know if it's because I've been turning out lights better, or turning off some power strips or what. Not much else to say, but that made me happy.

 

[keljonma]

I think that first plant looks like a Schefflera Arboricola. It is sometimes called the dwarf umbrella tree or dwarf schefflera. [I had one once many years ago and it grew to about 4 feet high. Then my sil came to housesit for a week while we were gone. She pruned all of my houseplants, and this one was pruned so severely that it didn't recover.] I think they are great plants.



Way to go on the lowered bill, hennypenny! Every bit helps.

 

[hennypenny9]

Thanks Keljonma! My mom gave the plant to me 'cause she has killed every plant she has ever owned, and didn't want to kill this one.

On a side note... I don't know about everyone, but I'm must be a closet klutz or something. Every great once in a while I'll do something amazingly klutzy. Like a few years ago, I was trying to pull a disposable paint roll off the metal frame, and when it finally came off it hit me right in the mouth. My lip bled for a long time, and got a brilliant purple color. I got pitying looks everywhere I went.

Well today I forgot my last sheet of cookies in the oven and went racing in a dead run to the kitchen. I didn't want my house smelling like burnt cookies for the open house tomorrow, or to sleep with the windows open airing out the smell. So I fell down really hard turning the corner. Omg, my left upper thigh and wrist hurt right now. Took me a minute to get up again. Lets hope this is my ditsy event for the year.

 

[Farmfresh]

I will testify that I too am a klutz!

Several years ago I was painting the ceiling in my dining room. I am so clumsy that I took extra precautions. The room was cleared, the floor was completely covered with a tarp and I bought a special drip proof roller with a drip guard to do the job. All was going well - then I stumbled a bit on the tarp, the paint roller (which evidently had been working loose from it's handle) separated from the handle and went sailing - into the UNPROTECTED living room! I had paint on my hardwood floors, my couch, and my large planter and plant.

Yes - now I can laugh.

 

[hennypenny9]

RANT alert!

'Kay, so we're getting the feedback from the two day open house, and they liked the house, said it showed better than the one next door, and loved the backyard, BUT. They said the house had a "distinct smell." This house has been on the market for TWO MONTHS and not ONE person has commented on that. In fact our Realtor said that my house was good 'cause I have an indoor cat and the house does NOT smell at all. My Realtor! She would have told me, because that would be a big deal in showing the house! Why mention that it DOESN'T smell, if it does???

What smell is this? Is is musty? I had windows open! WHAT.

And when I get home from all the open houses, they place STINKS of cologne/perfume! Silly Realtors smelled the place up! I asked my Realtor if she smelled anything, or what it was, but I haven't heard back. I'm just ticked off! Go look at a house built in the 70s and then tell me my house smells! I know that since I live here I'm kinda immune to it, but my mom doesn't live here, and she only visits about once a month and she's also BAFFLED.

MY HOUSE DOES NOT SMELL.

From the wording in the email I can't tell if just one couple said it smelled, or more than one. If it was more than one, WHAT DID I DO? ARG.

/rant.

ETA: My Realtor just replied and said she has no idea what smell, but she's asking the one who was at the open house.

 

[keljonma]

I know how you feel, HP about the smell. Especially since you had just posted that you were worried about a 'burned cookies' smell!

It could be that it was the realtor's cologne. I have a severe sensitivity to perfumes and colognes; it makes me sick for hours. The real offenders are people who bathe in it, imo.

So I have always asked that no one wear perfumes and colognes in my house, including realtors selling my homes.

 

[hennypenny9]

Thanks, Keljonma. I would like to think that I'm sensitive to smells, so it's crazy to me that someone said that. Although if it wasn't the Realtor's colongne, I can just tell myself that they're nuts. I mean, I deal with the public every day, and I see how crazy they are.

"Do you have any green fabric?"

"How big is a window?"

"I need 60 inches. Oh, no I don't need more than a yard! I need 60 inches!" FYI, a yard is 36 inches. So 60 inches is 1 2/3 yards."

shjfkjhsfj I'm still so mad!

 

[keljonma]

When selling our houses in the past, we have moved any proof of an animal in the house (kitty boxes, feed bowls, animal bedding) and also our onions and garlic out to an outbuilding, shed or garage. Sometimes people will say they smell something - when in reality all they did was SEE a dog's water/food bowl.

Also, the night before an open house, I used to completely wash down the insides of the refrigerator with baking soda and hot water, rinse and dry well.

Once, someone actually opened a bottle of milk in the fridge during an open house. She left a note on the viewing comment sheet that the milk had gone bad and I should throw it out. So, yes, people can be strange.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

It could be something as asinine as what you ate for dinner the night before (or for breakfast). When we were showing our previous house, my realtor said something about these people liking our house, probably because it didn't smell like meat (we are vegetarian for the most part). Um . . . ok?

When the right person comes along they won't care what the house smells like. Hang in there!