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My house plants spend all summer outside, getting fat and green, then in the fall I bring them inside for the winter. Did that today, because it's supposed to drop to near freezing temperatures here in NW Florida. Also carefully covered my Bell Pepper and Tomato first with plastic, then with towels and sheets. The plastic will keep the plants dry.  I had a couple of old shower curtain liners perfect for putting around the tomato. I keep them around for paint projects. A yard trash bag covered the Bells easily. Here's my counter loaded with a jungle of plants! I need to clean up the outsides of the containers and pull all the pine needles and other debris out of them, then they all go in hangers in various rooms. I nearly forgot to bring in my Wandering Jew! I remembered while writing this and ran out to get it! (So it's not in the picture.) I will cut a vase full of it's tendrils and that's how it will spend the winter: in a vase of water to...

Today's Garden Pic of the Day is a "mini-me" Box Turtle I saw just sitting on the block wall on Monday as Hubby and I were walking up the walk after coming home from the Fitness Center. He's sitting in my Hubby's hands, all of 2 inches in size! Such big eyes! Baby Box Turtle We released him in the back yard. Boxies are territorial--maybe he'll stay. ***** Today's other projects: Move the Houseplants Inside! It will be getting down into the 40's this weekend at night! All my houseplants happily spend spring & summer outside. This year though, one of the variegated Spider plants died. So I have one pot with a bushy Spider plant hanging in the kitchen and one that has just a few Spider babies in it. I hang a Dracaena plant in the guest bath and I have a Silver Arrowhead in the master bath, though, I must say, that Arrowhead was in pitiful shape and had to have a complete re-potting. Both it and the one Spider plant will need to re-gr...