Water Devils

Morning came a bit too soon this morning, our dog Juniper has got himself into a pattern of waking at 5:30a to go outside and just roam a bit. About half the time my wife wakes and takes her in the backyard. When I wake and take the dog out, I take her to the front yard. I sit on one the front porch chairs and check out the roses while Juniper sniffs out new smells from the night before and hopefully squeezes out a piss and poo. Dog stuff.

In rained hard for quite a while yesterday and last night in Atlanta. I love it, he keeps me from having to turn on the sprinkler system at one of my largest clients property. Gotta conserve the water. Speaking of water, people think that just watering a plant indoors or out until the plant is floating is the key to healthy plants. It isn't. Over watering is probably the no.1 way that indoor plants die. Too much love. In the plant world it's much easier to cure a plant that's dry than wet. Plants can recover from being too dry, water them, and they will usually snap back good as new.
Letting a plant go dry (not dessert dry) but almost to wilt, and then watering it is the best way to make a flowering plant create flowers, try it. Same for non flowering plants, let the plant go almost to wilt and then water it and the plant will grow new shoots. Now too much water is the problem, plants cannot recover from too much water, it rots the roots, leading to death of the plant. Simple way to avoid this, for house and outdoor plants; feel the soil before watering. Stick your finger about two inches into the soil around the plant if it's wet or moist don't water. This will also eliminate gnats in the home. The gnats are attracted to the moistness, This is the reason that gnats fly around your face, they are attracted to the wetness in your mouth. hmm...

The critics are in on President Obama's speech in Cairo. It was the usual nonsense, but the thing that struck me is that they had a problem with Barack saying Assalamu Alaikum, (peace to you) I believe. What !. They've got to have something better to do. The president touched on many subject during his hour long address to the students and faculty at Cairo University. The speech seemed to be well received by most Muslims which is a start. It's good he recognized the educated masses in Cairo. What is interesting to me is that Egyptian Universities graduate 900,000 students a year. That's alot of educated people. many more than their economy can support. Someone needs to come up with a plan to put these graduates to work, or were going to have a problem with the old saying "an idle mind is the devils playground".