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Orchid Longevity

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I bought this orchid in bloom at Costco a year and a half ago, to beautify the house for Christmas. Normally I don’t have houseplants, but this was a lovely thing, and I decided to give it a try. It hung like angels over the crèche for a while, and after I put away Christmas it kept blooming. I don’t know when it stopped, but I cut the stem down and fed and watered it less than I was told to.

This year it didn’t bloom at Christmas, but a little later, maybe in January. These photos I took last week. It has looked like this for all those months! I would go out and buy more of these amazing plants if I had more tables or shelves to put them on. I’m pretty sure this is the first orchid I’ve owned, and it was a great investment.

New Old Hutch

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This hutch is a treasure I recently inherited from my grandparents. The sticker on the back says it came from Bernhardt Furniture in Lenoir, North Carolina. http://www.bernhardt.com/history.php It was sold through Bullocks in Los Angeles, so I’m guessing it was bought in the middle of the 20th century, when Grandmother and Grandfather lived for a time in southern California.

It’s not in a style we have anywhere else in our house–and we have several “styles”!–but I think it will do very nicely as a storage for my tea party supplies, and it looks much prettier than the hodgepodge of storage units that were stacked in that spot previously.