I had been in a rut for so long that writing two articles in a day is considered productive for me. Where was the super reporter who used to write seven stories in a day? Writing one article is already like pulling teeth for me; it’s that painful. This happened to me in the past whenever I was having a depressive episode. However, I’m not in one; I’m just blue. Anything that needs creativity coming out of me is difficult when my brain won’t cooperate.

My keyboard switching trick helped, I guess. Maybe I need to change keycaps again…Hmmm…I like the clackety-clack feel when I’m typing fast.

I need to write three more and I’ll be a happy bunny.

In the morning, I just let Sushi occupy my chair, making her as an excuse for not working on my articles immediately.

The intense heat of the past few days had been brutal to my plants. They’re now losing leaves and I almost lost some of my flowering plants because it turned out they were the thirsty kind that I had to water in the morning and afternoon. I was able to resuscitate them after transferring them to a proper pot with more potting mix.

While I was out here, I let my cats roam around the yard because they’re already bored out of their wits. When they’re busy, they forget about asking for food, this keeps Kimchi from ballooning further.

While accompanying them in their exploration of their kingdom, I discovered wild variegated pothos and Caladium sprouting in my yard. During the ECQ a.k.a. Covid lockdowns and people didn’t have anything to do at home, these wild rainforest plants cost thousands of pesos because they were in demand among plantitas and plantitos. I knew these were just growing around our house so I was like—meeeh, I’m not going to jump into that.

I asked my TV reporter friend, G, if I should remove them from my garden and transfer them into pots to give away to condo-dwelling friends. He said, nah, let them be. G is one of the recipients of my propagated baccularis and bird of paradise plants. I think I can attach some other epiphytes here like my mom’s orchids that had been dying off because they were exposed to direct sunlight for so long! I will try to save them. Epiphytes are forest dwellers and they live off forest tree trunks, hence, they thrive under shaded environments. My mom is a bad gardener even though she’s a biologist—an environmental one at that!

I can already feel it in my bones…I must start my veggie garden now or else the forest will take over again