Widowed again...and plants

Bhautik is in LA, and I am very much a free woman this week. Appropriately, this is the first night I've spent at home since he left. In fact it's the only night I'll spend at home till he gets back. Life is good.

The only low spot in my life really, is the fact that my plants are dying. It's very sad, they're getting eaten by various bugs that seem to like the taste of them very much but don't seem to appreciate that eating every leaf on a plant is not a sustainable way of dining. In addition, because my balcony is very shady, my plants don't have a high reserve of strength for dealing with that sort of thing.

So I've evacuated some of them to my mother-in-law's place where they should survive much better. I hope. They'll get some sun, which should make a difference. Unfortunately I think the red rose is dead. It has no leaves left, which isn't as obvious a sign as you might think, as roses can survive perfectly well for a while without leaves. However usually this happens in autumn/winter, not mid-summer. Still, the rest of the plants look a definite chance of making a full recovery, and I'll keep my fingers crossed.

I've kept the herbs here though, cause there's not much point having pots of herbs if you need to go over to someone elses house to pick them when you want some.

Bhautik comes back on Monday, and I can go back to being only a semi-widow while he tries to write up his PhD. I'm sure he'll get it done eventually, and then I suppose I'll have to change the title of this blog ;)