uh what kind of lawn and garden work do you wind up doing
i have um we own a house that we rent out
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okay
and i i rent the house that i live in
okay
and the house that i'm renting the house that i live in had the landlord provides the yard work
okay
the house that we own i provide the yard work
okay this sounds kind of like slightly jumbled situation there
i know well the the one that i live in is not nearly so nice as the one i rent out though
uh that good income huh
i wanna preserve the the the value of the house by making sure the yard is taken care of
yes
okay
so i i go over to my other house and mow the yard and plant bulbs and flowers and
yes
do do you enjoy gardening
i adore it
yeah it's real relaxation
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uh my father ran a service station for thirty nine years and his
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i mean when when i was a kid i didn't realize how true it was but he always said that that was the best way he knew of to wind to wind down after a hard day at work was to come home and put in a hard day in the garden
yeah
and especially you know just hoeing just hoeing up the weeds it was therapy to him
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and i guess it still is but uh
and i didn't seem that way when i was like ten years old but
did you mow the yard when you were younger or do stuff like that
oh yeah yeah um we had about a quarter of an acre worth of lawn between our my my parents' house and our next door neighbor
ooh
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they were a rather elderly couple so we cut their lawn for them
but uh
there's about a half acre worth of garden we kept
so when the kids and
dad we
we kept it worked up pretty well it was a lot of fun as long as you know your heart was in it at least least to some extent or another
do you still do yard work
well uh since i moved away from home i got to live in a place that had a yard
oh
so i not really
do you do anything anything like um uh house plants or
yes we've actually gotten to the point where uh for a while i couldn't seem to keep anything alive
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i couldn't even grow weeds in the house
but about three years ago my wife and i somehow another seemed to have turned into green thumbs we got we pinched off a uh a couple couple of a twigs from a house plant of her mother's
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oh gosh
and wrapped them in a wet paper towel and brought them home with us
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and put them in a jar of Miracle Grow and water and these this thing took off and we planted them and now it's a plant uh plant we pinched them off of was kind of full and leafy but it was only about
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eight inches high off the top of the pot this thing's about five feet tall now
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ooh what is it
and i don't know
it it's this you know some little broad leaf something or other we
but uh it's it's got real thick thick stalks to it that like i say it's the couple of those stalks over five feet tall
but uh they're just growing like mad once we got that thing going we wound up with about five or six other house plants that are all doing real well some people gave us some aloe vera and it
oh
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it's doing well i mean it's had it's bad spots but
i killed an aloe vera
uh it's had its rough times but yeah but it's it's doing real well now um
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i brought her a uh a couple of
i don't even know what they're called looks like overly large lawn grass but it just a broad leaf type of along net kind of like a a leaf on a stalk of corn but greener it's
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oh yeah um corn plants those are called corn plants or or Dracaena or they're some kind of Dracaena but common name's corn plants i think
short house plant pardon
yeah well it doesn't get a stalk the the leaves all come out of the center it doesn't really resemble corn other than the shape of the leaf itself it is about like the shape of a leaf a leaf on a stalk of corn but it's not on a
oh
oh huh
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stalk it's just all out of the center
huh that's i don't i know i have one of those that's not doing very well but
i think i know what you're talking about
yeah and uh it doesn't seem to flower any and let's see we've got a little somebody gave us a Fichus and uh
uh when we first got it no well we came close we got really close
you you haven't killed it
um when we first got it she kept moving it back and forth from our own front porch to the uh inside and she never could quite decide where she wanted it inside
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and it had shed almost all its leaves it looked really scraggly and rough and when somebody finally told us the only way to treat those things is to put them some place and leave them
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