Using recycled K-cups as seedling pots

Every year I start a good amount of my garden plants from seeds. Actually, I start just about everything but the annual flowers I put in the planters. I'm also frugal, so I often buy my seed starting supplies when they go on clearance in the fall. This past year I bought some 'mini greenhouse' kits with growing pellets for $.99 each. At that price I bought all 3 that they had! This is how I started my seeds this year. 

I simply watered the pellets to make them expand, added seeds, put the lid on then filled out the diagram. I put the mini greenhouse in a sunny window and waited. Everything was sprouting well and really filling in the growing pellets. I was starting to wonder where I'm going to move them next, when I remembered.....

I cleaned my car (here's why you should too!)

I detailed the inside of my car today. It was the husbands idea. He's into the whole clean car thing. Like, really into it! I like having a clean car, but honestly it sometimes gets pushed aside amid all the running around I do. I mean, I've always been on board with having a clean car on the outside, but he's recently won me over to the clean side...inside the car too!

It just naturally gets messy in there! I don't think we're particularly rough on it, but we do eat in the car sometimes. (I do more often when I'm alone but shhhh, don't tell!) I drop kids off at school, work, practice, friends, grandparents etc etc.

It doesn't suddenly get dirty like some bizarre explosion, it's a slow buildup that often doesn't get noticed until its bad. Then he gets on my case about it and I finally clean it.

The funny thing is that even though I don't notice the dirt building up, I sure notice how nice it looks when it's clean! It's just so much nicer driving around in a clean car and it makes me feel just a little better as I go through my day. 

I pruned the Christmas Cactus (then it bloomed!)

I wanted to learn how to prune a Christmas cactus, so I did what we all do and turned to the web. I followed the directions exactly but somehow instead of getting bigger, it got prettier! Let me start at the beginning. 

My husband had a Christmas cactus from when he lived in Florida. He saw it in a Styrofoam cup at a flea market and it amazed him that it 'knew' to bloom at Christmas. So he bought it. Then it moved back with him and sat (in that cup) on his mothers windowsill for several years. It never bloomed. 

A few years after we got married, when we moved out to the sticks it moved out here with us. He said "I think it's broken" in that sad crushed dreams way little kids often use. I told him I'd fix it. 

Re-potting, good soil, some food, water and the appropriate amount of dark/light and I had it blooming that fall. He was so impressed! I'm still not quite as talented at these things as I could be. I do always get it to bloom, but about a month early. Close enough, right? (more on that later)