It's Little Plantie! Awww...

ever since the days started getting shorter, plantie wasn't getting hardly any sun. he had a bad enough spot to begin with, since all those pine trees were being uber tall to compete with one another, and blocking out the sun for poor little plantie.

so, i got one of those little plantie lights from lowe's and started him on it right about the start of november, and here is his progression:
(click on the thumbnails to see the bigger pictures)

november 15th, he'd been under the light for a little over 2 weeks, and he'd already started ''reaching'' towards it.

here he is, december 6th, obviously loving the light. i hadn't seen 'im doing this well since the full sun he got in CA, or that big patio door at mom's house :-)

just one week later, those flowers had turned into peppers! but little plantie wasn't finished.

January 20th, plantie changed colours!

i'm so proud of that deep red he's gotten them. it's so pretty! :-D

and this little guy is the product of one of plantie's peppers. one seed out of that pepper ''made it.'' it somehow lasted from the end of may all the way up to about the middle of november, when it started to sprout. look at 'im. awwwww! :-)

''you will have 6 bad months and 6 good months''

whatever is pure, noble, excellent, of good report or praiseworthy, think about such things.

what you feed thrives, what you starve dies.

as a person thinks in his or her heart, so will they be.

you've probably heard all these things before, but put them all together, and they point to an astonishing implification: whatever you habitually dwell on, that is what you are. a thought in the heart is a belief--any thought, no matter how small.

don't feed the bad ones, like the saying ''don't feed the bears,'' pretty soon the bears may come after you for more food and devour you. don't even aknowledge their existence by denying them.

just feed the good ones and you won't have any time, any room, any ability to give any power to, any of the bad ones. that's why they say ''smile, it'll make you feel better,'' and ''laughter is good medicine,'' b/c at a most basic level, smiling/laughing gives your subconscious mind a message to find a reason to keep smiling, since smiling is so thuroughly attatched to positive emotions. William James is responsible for one of my all-time favourite quotes: ''we weep not because we are sorrowful, rather, we are sorrowful because we weep.''

contentment is a rectifying of the inner self, not a collection of outside things. i know it does sound like it's ''easier said than done.'' but it's much easier than one might think.