Orchid Update - and A Saturday Check In

It's Been A While..

Yet again it has been some time since I've posted… it's Saturday morning and I actually have quite a bit to do. We have been quite busy lately with a little bit of local traveling, House preparation for the upgrades we've been doing, outdoor gardening, indoor gardening, preparing for the summer, yada yada yada. The list goes on and on and things still seemed to pile up. We did take a couple of trips to see family and friends the past few weekends so of course things don't get done when you're not home. And that includes posting about my life.

High Go's Silver

Let us start with silver, so I don't forget. Last time I posted or maybe it wasn't even last time, I picked up quite a few Peace dollars. There's a few more from that grouping. I picked these up just before silver shot up in price… Hi ho Silver!

This is a painting I did probably 18 years ago now. Refined my skills a bit but I thought it was the perfect fit being that we rearranged our entire house for this new carpet that we got. I needed a backdrop for that silver! Lol.

Carpet is in and looking good, but as you can see our dining room is still packed with miscellaneous things including reading chair and all of my painting stuff. Sooner or later it will move up the list of importance and we will get it back into place. For now I snagged one of my paintings and I'll use that as the backdrop for these Cool silver Peace dollars.

Sorry about the black glove. The only thing I had available at the time That was neutral and didn't take away from the coins.

1925-P, 1926-S, and 1934-S
They all came encapsulated but appear as though they were in either a water flood or high humidity situation. It's an odd discoloration on these coins. The one in the center, the 1926S has some like toning to it. It shows up better in the camera actually then via the eye, but it is there.

All these coins are well circulated but still in great shape. They fit awesome into my collection and the best part is I got them before silver prices shot up. I picked them up for about $19 USD each.

Orchid Update!

So this old Gal, which we call 'Peppers Sympathy Orchid', is done blooming. she bloomed for quite a few months and just recently dropped the last flower. The whole time she was blooming I was looking at the plant and it seemed to be falling out of the pot. It had grown top-heavy and now required a repotting. I didn't want to repot the orchid until it was done blooming so I didn't stress it out too much. If you repot them you run the risk of the Plant going into shock or getting stressed and dropping those flowers.

I grabbed everything I would need for this rather easy fix .. I grabbed a new bag of bark, a pizza box that works well for a small job and containing the bark and debris, my snips cut off unwanted plant material, And that's about it. I'm going to use the same pot that she was in.

After I got her out of the pot and removed the bark, there are only maybe one or two roots that needed to be snipped off. I also removed the bottom two leaves that appeared to be yellowing and very dehydrated. They were on their way out at this point anyhow. Since I'm repotting it it's a good time to cut off unwanted plant material such as this.

Here is Pepper's Sympathy Orchid All cleaned up!

Back in the pot she goes, new bark and upright this time! The Jeep, parked in the garage, was right there and made the perfect place for me to set the orchid and snap a quick photo.

She is back where she belongs .. After A good watering and tapping of the pot to make sure all the bar has settled in place, I brought her back in and put her in her spot at the end of the row. All the other orchids are looking great.

For the next orchid update, I'll have to talk about some new growth that's occurring on some of the other types of orchids. Nothing too exciting but new growth is always cool.

I'll Wrap This One Up

**We have a couple of friends coming over we haven't seen in a while, so lots to do! Yesterday afternoon I worked on getting some potted plants together for the patio, A trip to the grocery store, food preparation and some last minute type things like that. Looking forward to it and trying not to do too much today so I'm too tired to enjoy our company. Going so long without writing a post has really sent me back. There are so many things I'd like to share but so much time has passed. Hopefully I can get back on and just do some quick update posts that don't require a lot of flare or artistic creative writing. Just simple posts. At least that's the plan in my head right now. Lol

Until then Enjoy your weekends!

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