Fuk Luk Sau

I read a Feng Shui book once and tried to implement a few feng shui practices. Years ago, I bought a Fuk, Luk, Sau set. They sit on a higher shelf in the dining room. The shelf is stable until the cats jump on it and knock everything off of it. They don't do that often because I scream bloody heck when they do. But years ago they did it and Fuk and Luk got chipped. Fuk is for happiness, Luk is for wealth and Sau is for longevity. It seems that the breaking of the statues indicates that I'm going to live a long time but with no happiness or wealth. That's quite a bummer.

So instead of living with that fate, I went to Chinatown today to replace my three statues. Here's to changing fate!

Alexandria in May

Last year at this time I was just starting my month in Key West. I loved that month. I loved it so much, I'm probably going to retire in Key West. I would retire there now if I could, but it seems the universe has many, many, many more years of work ahead of me.

I missed a few things while I was away last year. One of them was my rose bush. It only blooms once a year and that's during the first week of May. That trailing rose amazes me each year because it grows in the shade. Almost complete shade. Zephirin Drouhin is it's name. It has some wonderful features, the most important being that it grows in the shade, another being that it's thornless, and yet another is that it is amazingly fragrant. The downsides are that it blooms only once and gets horrible black spot (that could be because of all the shade that I have it in).

I miss Key West, but I love watching my rose bloom. Here's a little edited picture of one of the early blooms. By next week it should be covered in blooms.

Lucky Pennies

I found lucky pennies number 9 and 10 in Georgetown under a bridge in the dirt. I think they have been sitting there a while, collecting a lot of luck I hope!