Prayer Plants

My prayer plants are coming along nicely. 

*knocks on wood*

I purchased these 2 from Amazon last 10/2020. I wish I had taken photos then but they were tiny and came in 3" pots. They've since grown a lot of new leaves.  

I've been looking forward to propagating it and planting it beside the main plant to make it look bushier. I also want to share new plants with friend, K.  I just have to wait for a suitable node which I can cut off. 

House Wash

 

Today was a busy day. 

While the Zong Zi (Ma Chang) are inside the house and cooking, the husband is outside cleaning the side wall where algae (and mold ? ) seem to have taken root. 

We used a product called Mold Armor house wash, connected it to a regular garden hose and then sprayed it on the wall. After 10 minutes, husband rinsed it off again and we're left with a nice, clean, white wall.

Ma Chang (Zong Zi)

   
 

Playroom aka Swe-cha's Bedroom 2

 ... continuing the playroom project (Part 1 here).

Let me start this post by saying that the 1 thing that the husband does not like about the Kallax shelves is that there is no backing. You can put something in from the front, push it and have it fall through to the other side. 

And for the longest time, he was obsessing about this. On and off. So this weekend, I nudged him to go to Home Depot to pick up some boards and got them cut to size. I did get a frantic call while he was in HomeDepot, complaining about the prices "They're very expensive!" (he was looking at plywood that cost $14.xx per sheet) and I responded with a "How much did you expect to pay for them ?"

I asked him to look around some more and he did find some pressure-treated backing boards for $11.xx each. Home depot put all 3 sheets one on top of each other and made 2 cuts (they all needed to be cut the same size anyway), we didn't get charged extra for the cut. 

The husband also did want to screw these boards on initially but I reminded him that the kallax panels (and probably most Ikea stuff) are essentially hollow, the screws wouldn't have anything to hold on to anyway and they'd just fall off. 

Husband agreed and thought to use heavy duty mounting tapes to stick them on the back. 

All in all, I'd be happier if the backing boards were painted white, but I didn't really want to make the effort any more. Neither did the husband. 

Toy-sorting still in progress and will continue to be a work-in-progress for at least a few more weeks or months. Meanwhile, we did find all the pieces to 2 toys - a wooden Melissa & Doug stacking toy set and an Alex wooden string-a-farm toy - and gave both sets to B&R.