Growing
I am some what of a horticulturist, I enjoy planting things and seeing them grow. About six months ago I was eating lunch in the breakroom at my work. I saw that the "plant lady" was in the building trimming, watering, and caring for the plants that are in the office buildings around our faciltiy. The first time that she walked in she had a hand full of leaves from a ficus that resides in one of the conference room adjacent to the breakroom. She quietly walked in made eye contact said, "good afternoon" and continued on her way. The second time that she came in several minutes later she was carrying the leaves to a very familiar plant to me. It was an ivy and that ivy was of the same variety that my mom has in her house. I took one look at the clippings and brought some home with me. I knew from the one that was at my parents house that this was particularly hearty type of plant, just what I need. At one point my mom had hers almost completly die on her before making a trumphant come back and growing to become this healthy, resilient plant that resides as the center peice on the entertainment center. I put the clipping in a glass jar and set it on my kitchen counter for about three weeks. In the first week a root came from out of one of the sides of the plant where I didnt expect to see any activity at all. But, just as soon the root appeared it started to grow at an extreme rate. So once I started to see that the root was putting on little buds of its own I transplanted into a pot of soil that I had from a failed planting experience. I was skeptical that I could grow anthing in this pot because not once but, twice I had plants die on me in it. I went out and put in really good soil with good nutirents so that if it died at least I knew that I did everything that I could from my end. The plant had been on the pot for about a month and there was no activity, it hadnt died but it wasnt really doing anything. I thought I had bought some kind of pot that sterilized soil and made it impossible to grow anything. I watched the plant waiting to come in one day and find it bent over in death and disgust. But I didnt. Two months passed and then three and during the fourth month something peculiar started to happen. The side of one of the leaves was starting to develop a bulge. I had also noticed that the base of the plant had risen just a bit. I was starting to really watch it now and made sure that I didnt deviate from the watering scedule or the feeding schedule that I had set up. For almost a month this slight little bulge got bigger and bigger until one day when I wasnt even looking a new leaf emerged. For a guy that had worked so hard to nuture and care for this plant and finally see it break through and make it on its own was a good feeling. Everything should be downhill from here.