Oh, this must be the longest hiatus that I had for this blog after the holidays. Whatever hit my life big time, what is more important now is that I am still kicking after all, and mind you, I am just as happy as I should be.
I was always anticipating weekends with bushy tail from my busy teaching career because I had garden make over at home this month. After years of experimenting for effective practices and mastering the art, I am overwhelmed by the result of my personal desire to build a terrarium for my unique dessert plants.
Extended beside our newly constructed concrete wall is a knee high concrete rectangular plant box that measures about eight spans long. I filled it with soil and then landscaped its top floor with many stones of varying sizes.
I used corrugated bars for its arch roofing and covered it with a seventy percent weaved net. Since cactus plants don't like heavy amount of water, I doubled its roof area with plastic cover to prevent excessive water during rainy days. With this roofing, I also love the gentle amount of sunlight that penetrates the terrarium which does not cause sun burn to the plants.
I designed the back portion of the plant box that is leaning to the concrete wall with big rocks to give an arid look that I typically imagine of a dessert biomes that have hilly parts and plain areas. I think there must be high and low points within the terrarium to give something variation to its overall dimension.
I arranged all the plants considering their heights. I placed the tall and long ones atop the rocks at the back part while I simply arranged the round and flat ones just below the plain area. I have some small potted cactus and I used them to fill in the dead spaces in between the larger pots.
Now that I have almost reached the plateau of my obsession, it is my wish that my cactus collection will grow even better - no plant pests and no growth gaps. I love to imagine something bigger soon.
Caught between deceit and love, which will you follow?
This is the story of the new drama series entitled THAT WINTER THE WIND BLOWS. I don't have enough leisure time to follow the show that has started though, but as from the initial views that I had, I think it will be a hit as it unfolds more.
What I like more of the show is the come back of Jo In Sung who I admire first in his sensational role in MEMORIES OF BALI. He physically looks older, but I guess it did nothing with his acting prowess that is better matured here.
Jo In Sung plays the role of a bad boy who wanders a meaningless life and was involved in a dirty game with a gambling lord. As a desperate attempt in order to pay his debts, he was left without an option but to pretend as the long lost brother of a heiress whom he will later fall in love with.
Set during the winter season as the title puts it neatly, I have this feeling that it will be all summer in every nook and cranny as the story goes on that beautiful conflict between deceit and love.
Catch the show on ABSCBN primetime!
I couldn't help but sigh: I want to be Archy McNally...
I want to be rich, witty, and admirable - all at the same life. I desire to live in a world of wealth, lust and suspense. And the lure of fantasy wearing the shoes of Archy McNally never left me then...
My obsession with Archy McNally started back one summer vacation at my granny's home in the province when I was still 11 years old. I came across this novel in the shelf entitled McNally's Secret. It is one of the thirteen best selling novels written by Lawrence Sanders and Vincent Lardo.
Archibald "Archy" McNally was a former law student at the famous Yale University where he was expelled after nakedly rioting in the middle of a political campaign. After that incident he decided to go back home in Palm Beach in Florida where he was given an investigator position in a division of their family law firm.
Archy McNally brings each novel an exciting web to untangle with twisted plots, entertaining characters and superb styles in the themes of greed, suspicion, murder, theft, betrayal and lust.
I have seen how his enemies, opponents, and assassins suffered with his acidic wit and political clout.
I have seen how he used every word of wisdom to defend his principles, may it seem right or wrong for others.
I have seen how he willingly fell in the arms of each temptress that he always alleged to have seduced him.
I have seen how he admitted to himself that he is a maze of contradictions - soft, loving, blithe, jealous distrustful and vengeful.
I have seen how he intelligently went through each puzzle, risk, luck, gamble, secret, chance, caper, folly and bluff.
Archy McNally is a very well crafted character of a smart and bubbly person. I can't just easily forget his social charm and introspective personality, his sunny temperament and lustful weakness, his acidic intelligence and political clout...
I couldn't help but sigh: I want to be Archy McNally...
