Saturday, March 19, 2011

Saturday morning Sheba and/or Nina picture


I almost came up with a caption for this, but everything was coming out subtly wrong. Feel free to suggest something.

Nothing exciting with either pet this week, though it appears that Nina's Fittonia, the new one with the pink veins, is not going to root. The cuttings I'd tried to start in the basement didn't work either. Perhaps this is not the way to go about propagating Fittonias.


9 comments:

Ginny Burton said...

Is that a picture of Nina eating her shed skin?

Unknown said...

Shed skin: the other white meat. ;)

mr_subjunctive said...

Ginny Burton:

It is.

Anonymous said...

How am I supposed to know what chicken tastes like?

Jenn said...

Protein!

Anonymous said...

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Derek said...

Is there a trick to rooting Fittonia? I just trimmed a leggy plant back and stuck the cuttings in soil, hoping for the best.

Derek said...

Also, suggested caption:

"What? I'm fucking delicious."

mr_subjunctive said...

Derek:

I have no idea. I've rooted one set (of the small-leafed, white-veined cv.) successfully by sticking the cuttings directly into wet soil, but the large-leafed, pink-veined variety is not cooperating with me so far.

Even the ones that did root haven't grown much, so it may be early to call that a success.