First an Update on the Plants and Balloon:
The bean plants haven’t changed much, except for one spindly branch growing on the right.
I’ll probably toss the plants out in the near future. I planted a couple of garbanzo beans and will see if they start to grow.
The balloon is still slowly losing helium.
12 weeks old
The sweet potato is growing, but I don’t like the looks of it. No green leaves.
I’ll watch it for a while longer, but then I’ll toss it out.
I haven’t talked about my pothos — I had some growing in three 4-inch pots, but they started getting overgrown. Instead of moving them to bigger pots, I started propagating new plants from cuttings. (All my pothos started from one cutting a friend gave me about 35 years ago.)
That wasn’t the big change. They’ve been working on our building, changing some posts, adding metal clading to the cross pieces, and painting the posts and stucco lighter colors. So there has been a lot of activity on our porch:
The building looks a lot different.
September 24, 2025
March 13, 2026
They’re almost done with our building, except for painting the doors a lighter color next Monday. Doing this to 10 buildings is a lot of work!
March 14, 2026
Awesome facade of the building
Not much good news on the plants, although the baloon seems happy
it does look a lot better. That would be a real distraction with them on the porch. glad it is almost over. Pothos is my favorite indoor plant and I have always had one until a year ago with this mess started and I forgot to water the big plant and it died. I never put another one up.