My mom is a really interesting human being! She is highly functional in some ways, plus a complete space case in a lot of other ways, then for instance, she is severely skilled at creating a slim budget plus living comfortably.
However, she freaks out at basic tasks like going to a modern place or leaving the comfort of her home.
She is amazingly skilled with taking care of pets plus giving them the exact care that they need it..! But she cannot do the same thing for plants. For as long as I have been alive, my mom has been killing any plant that is unfortunate enough to come inside her house. I’ve regularly encouraged her to try again, because they improve your indoor air quality plus surroundings so greatly! Recently, I thought that I had finally found a solution to this concern when I raised some appealing cacti plus gifted them to my mom. Surely, she couldn’t ruin these minimal-effort desert plants – they just need dry air plus sunshine, then well, she did. Apparently, my mom was cleaning one afternoon plus moved the plants away from their warm plus dry shelf! Unfortunately, she set them directly next to an air vent plus forgot all about them, while the outdoor air temperature steadily increased. The plants sat next to the ice cold air vent, being blasted with air conditioning for multiple mornings while the tepid plus humid outdoor air triggered the A/C over plus over again. When I came over to visit, I saw the plants looking miserable next to the air vent, plus pulled their freezing cold pots away from the flowing air conditioned air. When I asked my mom why she would set the cacti right next to her A/C outlet, she feigned innocence. Suddenly, it was her darn cooling system’s fault plus she needed to get an Heating, Ventilation, plus A/C upgrade to have plants. There was now a $4,000 air quality appliance excuse for why she couldn’t even keep cacti alive.