Create a Stunning Flower Planter — WITH MINIMAL EFFORT
As any gardener will tell you, gardening is hard but has an incredible payoff. Yet rewarding as it may be, much toil and sweat goes into every plant. Not everyone wants to spare the time. If you long for flourishing flora around your home but are leery of the time commitment, you’re in luck. Creating a vibrant flower display with little to no effort is easy. The end goal of this project is to fill an outdoor planter with flowers. To call this a “project” at all does a disservice to projects, which typically require some degree of work. This undertaking only requires a few minutes and zero maintenance. You’ll need a planter, a hanging basket full of blooming flowers, and a pot. Planters come in all shapes and sizes; square, wooden planters look especially nice. It can be any planter if it fits your chosen basket. The hanging flower basket should overflow with blooming flowers with a hanger in the middle you can remove. Lastly, the pot will be used to elevate the basket in the planter, and it won’t be seen, so use whichever vessel you have lying around. Just a simple clay pot will do. It should be about half the size of the planter. Turn the pot upside down and stick it in the planter. If you’re using the right pot, you won’t be able to see it from the outside, and you’ll have enough space for the basket to sit on top without it being taller than the upper rim of the planter but not too low, either.
Lower the hanging flower basket onto the pot in the planter. The flowers in the basket should fill the entire space, creating the illusion of a beautiful, stunning flower arrangement you grew and potted yourself. If you see gaps between the flowers and the planter rim, adjust the height of the pot underneath or find a smaller planter. Take the hanger off the basket. The hanger is easy to remove on most baskets; you can usually just twist it off. A few aren’t removable, necessitating cutting tools to snip the three wires attached to the pot. Congratulations, you’ve done it! In less than 15 minutes, you’ve created a stunning display to liven up your outdoor space. Nothing is preventing you from doing it for inside arrangements, either.
Citrus BBQ Chicken Inspired by FoodNetwork.com
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situations. Because if they are in better moods, they will be able to respond better, with more clarity, and they will be able to serve better. I told them to sing in the shower, even when they don’t feel like it. Because if they do, they will feel like it. And that is the goal in the end. To putting on “happiness armor” every day, in any way you can.
Ingredients
• 3 cloves garlic, minced • 1 tbsp Dijon mustard • 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce • 2 tsp ground cumin • 1 1/2 tsp smoked paprika • Salt and pepper to taste
• 8 skin-on chicken leg and thigh pieces
• 1 1/3 cups ketchup • 2 tbsp brown sugar
• Juice and zest of 1 orange • Juice and zest of 1 lemon
Directions
1. Place chicken in a large resealable plastic bag. Combine all other ingredients in a small bowl. 2. Reserve 1 cup of the sauce and add the rest to the plastic bag. Toss to evenly coat the chicken and marinate overnight. 3. In a small saucepan over medium-high heat, add remaining sauce and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer to thicken sauce, about 10 minutes. Set aside. 4. On grill set for medium-high heat, arrange chicken skin side down. Cook until grill marks form, about 4 minutes. Flip chicken, cover grill, and cook until a thermometer inserted into thighs reads 165 F, about 20–25 minutes. 5. Serve with remaining sauce.
P.S. I have talked about why you should absolutely, positively sing in the shower. But to be balanced, I wanted to share the dark side of singing in the shower. There is a made-up quote attributed to the “Minions” with a warning: “Never sing in the shower! Singing leads to dancing, dancing leads to slipping, and slipping leads to the paramedics seeing you naked in the shower. So remember … no singing!”
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