by golly, she is alive!

i know you've all been wondering where i've been for the past month.  and the truth is, i haven't been on some exotic island where they barely know what running water is, let alone have an internet connection, further preventing me from posting updates to my beautiful blog.  

i've been around, but have been more interested in reading the updates of others instead of making my own updates.  and for this, i apologize.  but don't fret, i will be making more of a conscious effort to post more often than once a month.  

so to start, i thought i'd update you on my "garden"  (you must picture me holding up the first two fingers on both hands while slightly bending at the second knuckle when i say "garden."  these air quotes, as they are called, are necessary because three pots can hardly be called a garden).

but look!  after a month, my flowers are still beautiful!

JUST KIDDING!!! (had you there for a second, didn't i?)

my garden actually looks like this...

everything has died except for my kalanchoes.  those are still a brilliant redish orange color, which i love!  i really don't know what i did wrong.  it's possible that i didn't water them often enough.  and it's also possible that most of the flowers i bought because they were pretty (rather than easy to care for) don't get nearly enough sunlight on our balcony.  oh well.  i'm thinking about replanting a bunch of those kalanchoes in various colors since i seem just conscientious enough not to kill them.  

any helpful gardening tips are welcome!

my green thumb

i was at a garage sale a couple weeks ago and bought two pots for $2.  i thought i'd try to liven up our balcony a little bit and bring in some spring colors.  so today, i am making my first attempt at trying to keep some flowers closer to alive than dead for an extended period of time.

i don't know anything about gardening.  i usually over water things, causing whatever it is to drown.  although, mike and i have somehow managed to keep one houseplant alive, but i think the plant actually refuses to die.  when we moved to our apartment, i swear the plant was on its last leg--leaves super droopy and starting to turn brown--and so i just set it outside to wait for it to die.  mike decided it still had some life to it, watered it, and a couple days later it bounced back.  the plant has fought numerous times for its own life that i feel like i owe it to the plant to keep watering it.  so i do, and it's still alive.

but flowers are a whole other category that i know will require much more tlc than i have offered to my house plant.  we'll see.  

but this is what they look like on day 1.  aren't they pretty?