![\"20071030bed\"](\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20071030bed.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
(Originally posted on the website Heron Flight<\/A>)<\/p>\n I cannot sleep. I tried and I tried. I read. I tossed and I turned. I stared at the clock and watched the amount of time I had left before work shrink and shrink.<\/p>\n Then I got up, somewhere around 12:30 AM.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat did you do?\u201d you ask.<\/p>\n I re-potted plants.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat? Are you crazy?\u201d<\/p>\n Yes, but that\u2019s beside the point.<\/p>\n I remembered that there was a \u201cSnake Plant<\/a>\u201d that I wanted to thin out and re-pot. It was outside. So, I shuffled out there in the late October chill air, in my old sleeping shorts, a t-shirt, and my two-year-old bedroom slippers that are now splitting at the seems. To my great nocturnal pleasure, I found that the Snake Plant had produced new shoots. They were perfect!<\/p>\n Being that it was too chilly outside for mid-night gardening, I moved operations to the basement.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat? Are you a doctor?\u201d<\/p>\n Not those<\/em> kinds of operations.<\/p>\n I found a partial bag of potting soil outside the basement door at the bottom of the outside steps. I dug up a couple of decent pots. Next, I disentangled the roots of the shoots. (If I were wearing boots I could make a rhyme like Seuss. But I was wearing slippers. Do you remember? Soon they will be \u201ctrippers\u201d without a mender.)<\/p>\n \u201cYou ARE<\/em> crazy!\u201d<\/p>\n Yeah, well, it is now 2 AM. Tick tock. Tick tock. Work is inching closer.<\/p>\n All rhyming aside, I scooped the soil into the pots, installed the plants, and swept up the mess.<\/p>\n A little farming should make anyone tired. Right? But just in case, I made a cup of chamomile tea.<\/p>\n \u201cOh! Just like Peter Rabbit!\u201d<\/p>\n Well, sort of. Peter\u2019s mom gave it to him because he was a naughty, fat, little rabbit who ate Mr. McGregor\u2019s plants (Rabbits are evil! Don\u2019t believe me? Just watch this!<\/a>). I made some for myself because it\u2019s supposed to make you sleepy.<\/p>\n Poppycock (as the Brits in that video would say)! That was over an hour ago and I\u2019m still wide awake! I\u2019m so wired it\u2019s as if somebody slipped me a massive load of caffeine somewhere along the way tonight. I don\u2019t know what else to do with myself. More gardening? Mow the lawn? Watch a Monty Python movie?<\/p>\n Hey\u2026 now there\u2019s<\/em> an idea! Just as soon as I plaster this jibber jabber on the internet, I\u2019m going to crank up the dvd player and watch me a good ol\u2019 silly movie. If nothing else, it will give me a reason to smile when I walk into the office at 9 AM \u2013 something in addition to the delirious smile sleep deprivation usually plants on my face.<\/p>\n