For the past twenty years I have carried the nerve-wracking responsibility had the great pleasure of keeping my great-grandmother’s engagement gift plants alive. These two plants lived in her apartment on Staten Island, then at my grandmother’s house for many years… they moved to Connecticut with my Aunt, who I lived with for four years while I went to college and started my “adult life”. When I got married, they came to live with me. (gasp!) I have no idea what they are, and my Aunt and grandmother couldn’t identify them either. They have no blossoms like the smaller peace plants in front of them… any of you green-thumbs out there have a clue? We’ve just moved them to the front porch of this old house, where they will stay until early fall, moving inside when the nights get too cool.
This is what my family’s refrigerator looks like before we “live” out of it.
The barn/garage siding is almost done, painted a dark brown, as was the original.
