A Muddy Mishap

A little story that might make you smile...it makes me smile.

Sunday afternoon Ryan decided he was going to take care of one of our plants. In the process of trimming off all the dead leaves, he managed to massacre and kill the entire plant. He threw away the plant, and added some water to the remaining soil knowing he wanted to go buy a new plant to add to the pot.

We went to Fred Meyer and Home Depot and found a pretty little Ficus Tree. When we got it home and ready to go into the waiting pot (full of mud) we realized that the pot was too full, and possibly too small. Ryan then dumped some of the mud from the pot into our sink, the one with the garbage disposal.

You can guess what happened next, a muddy mess. The sink clogged. Ryan tried running the disposal, this lead to a nice geyser of mud spewing all over the counters, and a little onto the carpet. My cupboards had mud dripping down them, and the floor was speckled. This process went on for a good 10-15 minutes. You would think we would stop at some point. But that would be much too easy.

We eventually had to get my turkey baster to get the water out of the sink. It was a mess and I eventually got everything cleaned up. The maintenance man came and fixed our sink.

We finally had the chance to plant our plant. Small problem, the pot was too small. So we had to go and get another one.

After we got the new plant, soil and pot ready to go, we ran out of soil. So we had one more trip to the store at this point.

What a fiasco. But our Ficus is sitting in it's new pot, all pretty and not dead. What a Sunday!