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
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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.
You have too many other things to deal with.
…I hope that the work goes smoothly!
Thanks. 🙂
That is a big difference in how the building looks. Nice that they take good care of it.
Yes. They do try. 🙂
The guy with the red hat sure has a creepy mask on.
I love those little glass bottles that you’re propagating the pothos in.
I didn’t even notice the mask until you mentioned it. i wonder why he was wearing it? 🙂
It looks so much better. I had the same thought as Pixie about the guy in the red hat!
I didn’t even notice. 🙂
Good progress on your building
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I am THRILLED they are updating your apartment! Looks good.
Maybe those plants need to be put in the ground to grow!
They will be planted eventually.
Looking good! I wonder how many residents that worker (red hat) has frightened. Gotta love his sense of humor.
I didn’t even notice. 🙂
I think the building looks quite a bit better. You know what you can do? Gather all the Pothos cuttings and plant them in one pot. It would make a nice full plant. This balloon is a wonder to behold! The sweet potato appears to have the plague. The bean plants look very healthy, despite being spindly.
The pothos were taken from three pots that were overcrowded. I don’t want to put them in bigger pots, so I’m starting over to give them more room.
I don’t plan to keep the sweet potato for very long, but I want to see what it will do.
The sure have been busy making improvements to your place, it’s looking good up there!
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We used to live in a rowhouse/townhome community that had 10 buildings. They repainted two buildings each year so every one got done every five years. That seemed a reasonable plan to me.
Yes, that made a lot of sense. 🙂