Friday Photo Fiesta: Can I take a hint?

This portion of the blog was written one month ago:

Sometimes my life gets so busy that I need to world to just give me a quick slap in the face to show me what needs to get done.

This week I pulled into my driveway and actually looked at the flower pot that lines the side of it. This is what I saw. ..

Hmm. . . Am I holding out hope that the 30 degree high we are experiencing is going to magically transform to 80 and that this poor little pepper will miraculously be edible? For some time in the fall, I had hopes that eventually I would be able to consume this baby green pepper. And, for awhile, nature obliged me. The weather was beautiful this fall! I even wore flipflops on Halloween.

Those days are over. It is winter coat weather now, not grow-a-pepper weather. I need to get out there and put the poor pepper to rest. Hopefully, I will not be posting a picture in winter of snow piled around the parched plant.

I may just need another slap in the face!

Ahh-- Here I am! Now four weeks later, laughing at the ultimate form of procrastination I currently embrace. I also revel in my own clairvoyance.

As predicted, here is my pepper plant now!

In a few short hours, it will be buried under ten inches MORE of snow. My only hope now is that next year my pepper plant will miraculously recover. It doesn't look good!