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Eleanor had some work to do today, but not necessarily Plant Parenthood-specific work. Well, sure, of course, obviously there was some of that, too, but she and Luma had received a nice little care package from their mother, which included letters, and Eleanor's letter in particular included a small list of things that the villagers had come to the house, interested to see if Eleanor could help with. Thankfully, it was all pretty simple stuff that she could put together pretty easily, but there were a few things on there that were going to require a little research and a little work and poking around the shop to see if they had them or if she'd need to put in an order for herself.

And honestly, being here already really did make it easier, so she at least felt pretty good about having known that her employment here would really put her in a good place for her work back home, and she could start putting together a package to send back.

She should really include a few things for her family, too, and so she was also thinking of nice things to add that they might like, too, which meant she should definitely swing by Pick Your Poison at some point for some bath bombs for her mother, and she was feeling mildly astonished that she hadn't thought of that before now. Maybe she could even figure out how to make her own? That was somethings he was pretty sure her grandmother never had to offer!

Plant Parenthood is open!

mylandmyrules

Nell was here. Sleepy and a tad grumpy, but here.

The plants didn't seem to mind.

what_big_teeth

Eleanor had skipped her classes yesterday and pretty much holed herself up in her room, because she really didn't need the entirety of everyone she interacted with knowing about just how terrible she actually was. Luma had said she was overreacting and being a coward, but she didn't have a single death on her luggage; she didn't have eaten cousins or assaulted school friends or the near entire destruction of their entire family estate on any of those pretty frilly bags, nor did she even have any friends here, really (or at all!), so she couldn't possibly understand how it was. She'd left in a storm, and so now Eleanor had a new bag to stare at all day reminding her about how much Luma actually hated her.

(And she really couldn't blame her at all).

But the bags were gone now, and Luma had returned from work bright and bubbly and eager to talk to Eleanor about what she'd missed as if nothing happened, and Eleanor was just confused about all of it, and they ordered take-out and listened to music on Eleanor's record player until they fell asleep, and everything seemed fine again, but Eleanor was no less confused.

Today, she wanted to make up for missing her Ethics class by considering what Luma had told her and writing down in a journal what she would have done; maybe she would go talk to Miss Vess about it to make up for her absence, and she was overdue to talk to Miss Vess about everything with Rhys, anyway. She'd have to figure out where they went for her National Parks class, too. Maybe if she wrote up a research essay on the place, Mr. Eagle would also be forgiving of her missing it yesterday.

Sure, she'd been here long enough to know that most teachers didn't care of you missed a day or two. Around here, anything could happen, so it was practically expected. But her guilt was weighing on her particularly heavy after yesterday, so she just wanted to try and make a few things more right in the world, in ways she figured she (probably) couldn't mess up spectacularly.

Plant Parenthood is open!

mylandmyrules

"No thank you," Nell said politely for the trillionth time that day. "Yes, I'm sure this is a lovely rescue dog, as were all the others, but I'm not looking to adopt any dog at all. My cats would be very unhappy. And in any case if I were to want one I'd go to Furnado."

Where the raccoons got all the dogs she had no idea, but she hoped they'd all end up in a good place.

what_big_teeth

On the one hand, Eleanor was still here. Luma hadn't shown up to graduation to make a big fuss about her going home, which meant that she'd at least have the summer to work up a plan to put off facing her familial duties longer, to maybe work on some college stuff first and then go home.

On the other hand, Luma hadn't shown up to graduation at all, and even though there was a great deal of relief in that, Eleanor also couldn't help but feel a little hurt about it. She knew Luma had at least gotten this letter--their grandmother couldn't have possibly have kept the letter from getting to her like she had in the past....could she? Persephone's ghost could have meddled with it, but was her ghost even still around? Or had it, like Arthur, been released with the burning of their home?

There were plenty of questions that Eleanor didn't have the answer to, but they weren't really questions she wanted the answer to now. She was just going to take comfort in the fact that she was still here, and focus on pouring over her potential schedule for the summer to figure out if she needed to adjust her work schedule a little bit with the new classes she wanted to take.

Plant Parenthood is open!

what_big_teeth

Spending time with Kamala again earlier that week had really helped quell some of Eleanor's nerves about graduation, but, unfortunately, the relief had been only temporary, and now the event was looming over her shoulders. She would like to stay on as a university student, of course, but she knew that her conscious wouldn't let her. She owed it to her family to be back home and do her duties as the apparent new matriarch of the family. But she wasn't ready to leave yet, and was hoping to cling on to at least one more summer in the only place she'd really ever felt so completely and uncompicatedly happy.

And she was terrified that Luma was going to show up tomorrow for the graduation and make trouble for her and insist on dragging her back up to Maine, and what was she going to do? Say no? To the sister who used to be her best friend, for whom she'd ruined absolutely everything? After everything that happened, could she truly refuse Luma anything?

The future was uncertain, and so, for that, even though she wasn't sure how much she believed in it or even her own abilities in it, Eleanor turned to her tarot cards.

After taking care of things around the shop, she made herself some tea, lit some candles, put on some moody music, and then settled behind the counter once it was quiet to pull out her deck and start shuffling. Three times. Then, she spread them all out in front her, face down, in a line. She took a deep breath, chose six, and then set the rest of the desk aside. Setting the six cards back down, she turned over the first one.

And it nearly made her want to cry.

And what followed certainly answered her questions, assuaged her doubts and fears, but also brought up one very important new question. Because, after all, wasn't that the magic, the trick of the tarot? You weren't reading cards so much as you were reading into what you were pretty sure the person being read was looking for.

She lingered, a little, on that last card, on the Sun, and what it was meant to tell her, and let out another breath, before sweeping up her cards again, setting them aside, and going to go focus on something else to distract her instead.

PlanT Parenthood is open!

what_big_teeth

Eleanor was feeling a little bit anxious. It was hard to really believe it, but her graduation was just around the corner, and her time here at Fandom had been some of the best years of her life. Not that there was a stiff competition for that, but the idea of leaving...well, it shouldn't surprise anyone that she didn't exactly savor the idea of going back home. She knew, of course, that she should. Things may have settled okay after everything that happened with her grandmere, but she should be doing more for her family, for her grandfather and her mother, for Luma and Rhys, and she couldn't do much from here.

She was hoping to at least be able to weasel her way into one more summer before going back, and she wasn't looking forward to arguing with Luma over it, either.

And there was some relaxation, in taking care of the plants in the shop, but she was using most of her time to distract herself with translations, actually, and working on her Urdu through poetry.

As if Urdu was going to do her a whole lot of good up in small town coastal Maine in the 1970s...but she didn't care. And today, she was working through some of Noshi Gillani. "Insight", in particular:

I have a feeling
That wherever I glance
There will be disaster

Yeah, no wonder why that one was sticking with her particularly strong, although she was spending a lot of time also just really looking into whether or not the translation was an accurate one or just her pulling out of it something that she wanted to see, just like how that sort of thing was the trick to tarot readings, too.

Plant Parenthood is open!

mylandmyrules

Nell was busily working both out front and out back today. Occasionally someone stopping by might see a sign saying that she was up at the greenhouse and would be back shortly.

Lots and lots to do!

Especially if she wanted to be able to take her usual tea and a book break in the late afternoon.

mylandmyrules

Nell was busily transplanting seedlings to bigger pots today. She'd have to make a trip back to Soulwood soon to plant some of them there and bring some of the Soulwood plants here. She'd thought she might go last weekend, but with Gladio... dormant... she'd decided to stay home and keep an eye out.

TPFKAG was on the table near her with his robe draped over a chair to the side. Just in case.

mylandmyrules

Today there was a large vase of gladiolas on the front counter with a "Not for sale - Do not touch" note on it. There was also a rather large robe draped over the back of a nearby chair - just in case there was a sudden floral reversion. Nell was not one to take chances like that.

Nell went about her day, mostly as usual, though she kept up a running commentary, talking to Gladio as if he could hear her - and who knew, maybe he could - and giving him the opportunity to answer (at least in her head). It was a pleasant day, all things considered, excepting the fact that her most significant other was currently a plant.

mylandmyrules

A raccoon came by early in the morning asking if they could play a prank on Nell, given that it was April Fool's Day. First mistake, don't ask.

Nell declined, so they offered that it was also National Sourdough Bread Day, so she agreed to make an extra loaf of bread for him to pick up tomorrow. That settled, she went back to work.

what_big_teeth

Obviously, it was a big time for seeds right now, and it was proving to be a good test for Eleanor to remember what should be planted when, both for the customers who came in needing help and for herself and the list of things she needed to get going in her little makeshift greenhouse that had taken up a good portion of her room.

Thankfully, most people coming in for that sort of things already seemed to know what they were looking for, and Eleanor just nodded along like she knew, too, while mentally making notes about it.

Plant Parenthood is open!

mylandmyrules

It was spring so Nell was happily up to her elbows in soil, with the occasional smear on her forehead or smock. Still, she'd be happy to clean up and help you out with whatever you might need.

what_big_teeth

Eleanor wasn't sure how much use she'd be in the store that day. She was feeling inexplicably tired from the moment she got up. She was sort of hoping some tea once she got into the shop would help perk her up a little, but no such luck. If anYthing, she was almost feeling more now than when she came in...

...and then she realized she she'd accidentally made herself some chamomile tea instead of a black tea, and really, really hoped she didn't make any similar mistakes with any orders or anything, but that did explain why all she wanted to do was curl up and take a nap.

Plant Parenthood is open!

mylandmyrules

Nell was planting up a storm today. She'd spent a good chunk of the weekend getting the beehives cleaned up and ready for spring and had been pleased to see that her hives had wintered over well. Soon there would be more than enough flowers blooming to keep them all happy.

In the meantime, spring meant planting and while it wasn't quite spring yet, it was the perfect time to start her seedlings. The afternoon would find Nell with smudged clothes and face and very content as she took her afternoon tea and reading break.

what_big_teeth

It still felt good to be back at Fandom after that trip home, but Eleanor still had a lot of work to do, ans she didn't just mean her usual tasks for her shift at Plant Parenthood. She had a whole list of things to research and to try to make and to try to grow, and so she was pretty busy, when she had the time, picking at all of that, and struggling with the two wolves inside of her: the one that felt she needed to work as hard as possible, tirelessly, to do what she could to fix things, and the one that was exhausted and just wanted to do nothing but make up for lost time in spe ding time with her friends.

What was worse was that she never did have any luck manifesting any of her wolf sides.

Plant Parenthood is open!

what_big_teeth

Eleanor was heading home for the weekend after she was finished with her shift. She always felt particularly guilty about...well...everything that had happened, after a school trip. It was really unfair that she was put here, just having a great time, while Luma was left picking up all the pieces of the mess that Eleanor had created.

But she'd bought a few things, to bring with her, gifts for her family from Barbados. And she'd made a few things with plants she could find there, and she was gathering a few things here, too, to do work with the villagers that her grandmother would have done to keep up the legacy.

And she could see how Rhys was doing, if there was any improvement, especially since she really should go bother Ms. Vess again about what she might be able to do to help...

So she was distracted and in a morose and maudlin mood,bolstered herself for what was going to be a much needed, difficult weekend after getting away with several exceptionally nice weeks that she really didn't deserve.

Plant Parenthood is open!

mylandmyrules

Nell was busily persuing catalogs of new plants that she could order. She was wondering if she could grow some of those Bird of Paradise plants and she definitely wanted some of those Mother of Millions plants. Maybe she'd get some Blue Passion Flowers too.

So many options!

what_big_teeth

Eleanor had a few things she wanted to stock up on and work on for the trip coming up next week, but, for the most part, today, she was all about putting on some of the chill modern music she'd been enjoying a lot ever since looking it up, making herself some tea, and just sort of enjoying a little bit of time to just sit and read when she'd finished with most of her things for the day or wasn't helping the stray customer to wander in. She was also going to take some extra time with the plants today, since she knew they might be a little lonely next week, with both herself and Nell out, and she felt it was generally a good habit to get into.

She didn't know if she really believed that they would benefit from that sort of attention, but it's not like it could hurt them, either, right?

...actually, no, she realized that extra attention from her specifically might actually be detrimental to most people and things, plants included, so perhaps she really should just stick to the reading today and let Nell do all the plant-whispering.

Plant Parenthood is open!

what_big_teeth

Eleanor had been keeping to herself an awful lot this week. She'd been here long enough to know why the air felt dangerous when she breathed it in, stirring up all the parts of her that she tried to keep quiet, keep still. But after some of that distance (and a lot of time in the still-too-cold ocean), she was feeling like she might be able to make it through, at least enough to get through her shift at the store. Besides, she had a few more finishing touches to put on Kamala's Valentine's Day present. If she didn't happen to swing by today, then she'd just drop it off at Midnight for her. Not exactly the most romantic to just leave it there for her, but probably for the best for now, until this was over.

In the meantime, she was just going to work on making herself a tea of licorice, lily root, and common rue.

Plant Parenthood is open!

what_big_teeth

Eleanor had noticed the posters for the Danger Club over at Midnight today, and it made that part of her brain tingle with a curiosity and wonder, but, really, when you got right down to it, her powers weren't exactly the sort of thing that you could practice at, were they? And it was one of those sticking points that she still couldn't quite shake, that absolutely loneliness and disconnect of being in a place where other people also had these incredible abilities, and still she didn't belong.

At least here, though, she could still connect in other ways, and she'd so rarely had even that before.

So, instead, she was dutifully going to work, where she planned to work on things she could practice, her tarot cards and her elixer making, very often getting distracted by also trying to figure out what in the world to get Kamala for Valentine's Day next week.

Plant Parenthood is open!

mylandmyrules

Nell was still taking it easy today. Luckily, February was a quiet month so she had lots of time to sit and sip tea and read a book in between dealing with customers and taking care of the plants.

And, since one of the raccoons had dropped off a note saying that today was National Homemade Soup Day, she had a pot of her best chicken soup on the stove.

what_big_teeth

Even though Eleanor knew she should be using her time here at the shop to be productive in her craft, she was really feeling like today was just sort of a curl up with some nice tea and read some poetry kind of day, so that was what she was mostly going to be doing. Taking care of a few things, watering and tending to the plants, of course, helping any customers who came in, but, for the most part, she was just enjoying the quiet, a good book, and a good cup of tea.

But she did make the tea blend herself with a little bit of experimenting and it was a poetry book about nature, so that had to count for something, too, right?

Plant Parenthood is open!

what_big_teeth

Eleanor's main plan today, other than her usual tasks around the store, was to do a little bit of research inspired by one of her classes yesterday, in looking into how different kinds of water can affect plant growth and if different kinds of water (for example, something made from salty ocean water compared to purified or swamp water) could alter a potion or a tincture in any significant way. Finding information on the latter was difficult, but when she did find something, it was pretty rewarding and fascinating and she had lots of new ideas to try for her own work.

That is, when she wasn't getting distracted and dreamily thinking about one of her other classes yesterday, and, no, it was definitely not the one with the ice skating!

Plant Parenthood is open!

mylandmyrules

Nell was very pleased that her own plants were not snickering at her behind her back. That had made for an uncomfortable day yesterday. She thought she'd need to give the flowers a talking to next week, which was certainly not anything she'd had to do back home!

Everything ran smoothly today though, giving her lots of time to think about what a lovely night they'd had last night.

what_big_teeth

The phone at the store today seemed to be ringing almost non-stop, and every time Eleanor answered it, it was someone asking if they had something in stock. She was starting to suspect it was the same person every time, and she wondered if it would be rude to suggest to them that maybe they wait until they'd had a full list of everything they were looking for before calling it, but, until she figured that out, she would answer each individual questioning call as they came in.

Sometimes, it was a pretty easy question that she'd known right off the bat, but some of them seemed pretty obscure or she wasn't sure of, so she'd also been spending a lot of time between each call looking through the shelves to make sure and confirm, and there was a small list of things she couldn't find building to ask Nell about.

See, caller? A list. Instead of asking her about each individual one as they came up, she'd collect them all together and ask about them all at the same time. What a novel concept! But at least it kept her busy and was making her time go by faster, but she was sort of hoping to get a little work on some of her own stuff today, too.

Plant Parenthood is open!

mylandmyrules

It was the quiet time of the year, so Nell had planned to work on plans for the coming spring. Instead she was continually interrupted by raccoons and a couple of the bigger squirrels stopping by to bring her some strange things they called bobbleheads.

Nell tried to protest, but Leroy (who seemed to be the ringleader here) insisted that a National Day was a National Day and they didn't want her to feel left out.

She thought about telling them that she'd be happy to be left out, but didn't quite have the heart to do so. (Plus some of those raccoons were big!) In any case, by the end of the day she had quite the selection of bobbleheads and a discrete sign by the counter offering a bobblehead or two with every purchase.

Except that there was one thing that she wasn't giving up. She had no idea where Leroy might have found it - he had some strange explanation, but in any case, it was hers.

what_big_teeth

There were a few customers here and there, mostly people looking to start a more natural lifestyle going into the new year, but they were pretty few and far between. Meaning that the person doing the most shopping today was the person working there herself. Eleanor had a list, an old journal to study, and a new journal to fill, so she was seeing what she needed, what they had, and making a note for Nell if there was anything that might need to be ordered special. She also had a lot of planning to do, if she wasn't going to really start giving this apothecary thing a go.

But at least with so much going on, the day would hopefully go by quickly.

Plant Parenthood is open!

what_big_teeth

Eleanor was hoping to use her usually pretty quiet downtime at the shop toward finishing up on a few things for gifts, but of course that meant they were surprisingly busy. Where did this influx of holiday shoppers on the island even come from? She supposed she could see the appeal. It was a pretty quirky place to pick up a really unique gift.

She was just really tired of telling people to watch out for the ballpit over by the perennials and succulents. She'd even put up signs!

Plant Parenthood is open!

mylandmyrules

Nell was rather giggly today. Even though she definitely didn't need to, she'd taken a rickshaw ride from the house to the gym and back again before work. She just couldn't resist! They looked so pretty with all the lights. She might have to make an excuse to go out again. Tonight. After dark.

Wouldn't they be pretty then?

In the meantime, Plant Parenthood was open!

mylandmyrules

Nell was in a particularly good mood today. Oh, no, no particular reason.

Also, she had cold fried chicken for her lunch. Yum.

Plant Parenthood is open.

what_big_teeth

Eleanor was really hoping to get to work on some potions and salves and some seedlings even to send home to Luma, since the two of them had spent a lot of time going over things for the new greenhouse over the holiday break, but the island, it seemed, had a different plan.

Because there were an awful lot of tiny horses everywhere, and apparently, tiny horses loved getting into plants and disturbing the soil and so now Eleanor was sorting to have to play plantguard to make sure that all the horses didn't mess up all of Nell's nice plants in the shop.

This eventually lead to her trying to create a little bit of a corral for the horses, which actually proved effective, but had been a lot of work, because she didn't have the natural herding abilities she just sort of assumed the werewolf side of her family would have.

(She did discover, entirely by accident, that she could command the horses and they'd listen, but she felt bad using her powers even on tiny horses that would probably cease to exist tomorrow).

Plant Parenthood is open!

what_big_teeth

Eleanor's work with her grandmother's drakondia and the others she'd grown since turning a small section of her room into a tiny make-shift greenhouse was actually starting to show some good results, which made her realize that she wasn't going to have an excuse of not knowing what she was doing for much longer, when it came to putting off actually trying her hand at potions. She wasn't quite ready to start figuring out how to recreate Persephone's poisons and potions with that particular plant, but she figured she could use her day at the shop to make some more standard, simple, run of the mill ones.

If her research was correct, anyway.

Today, she was working with lemon verbena, especially since it seemed to be pretty popular in other things she'd put together in the past, such as the lotions she helped Kamala pick out for her mother and the sleeping sachets for Arden when she was recovering from her attack. She enjoyed the sleeping sachets the most, not just because they were easy, but because they smelled nice and it was fun thinking of other things to mix with them, but she also wanted to work on a perfume. Luma liked perfume, so maybe if she made some for her to try, it would be a good place to start.

She really hoped Nell didn't mind her using some of the stuff around the store for her own pursuits like that, but, well, this was why she had taken this job in the first place.

Plant Parenthood is open!

mylandmyrules

Nell had had a remarkably wonderful weekend and was still riding on that good feeling. She'd taken the day off yesterday to, well, to really do not much of anything. Liliana would be thrilled.

Today she was back with the plants and the online orders and the hundred and one normal things that went along with being a business owner. Still, she didn't mind. She was happy to have the freedom to do all of this. From safety. And with great friends and a wonderful man in her life.

Life was good.

what_big_teeth

Now that she'd been freed of sloth duty once more, Eleanor had every intention of coming into work that Friday and doing some research on some mixtures and recipes to actually maybe start giving this apothecary thing an honest try. She'd gotten a letter from her sister and had to start looking into greenhouse construction, too, so there was a lot of work to be done.

Too bad she couldn't keep her mind from drifting back to Wednesday, and Kamala changing back, and their postpone perfect homecoming dance and shy glimpses of skin and...

Staying on task today had been a very lofty goal, and, at some point, Eleanor just gave up trying, made herself some tea, and just let herself daydream as she waited for the end of her workday.

Plant Parenthood is open!

mylandmyrules

After a lovely evening last night, it was hard to make herself roll out of bed and start the day. Still she managed her run and work out before opening her store and getting on with her work. The plants were happy, Nell was happy, and she was looking forward to an upcoming weekend getaway of some sorts with Gladio.

Which might be why she was terribly surprised when a group of raccoons burst in, playing an odd song and tossing her a strange tiny little bikini with polka dots on it. They were holding up a little sign that said "Happy Birthday, Brian Hyland!"

Whoever that was.

what_big_teeth

Eleanor had been coming into work that day sloth-less, having figured that it would make sense to take Arden up on her offer of taking Kamala for a bit, especially since Kamala might be getting sick of sticking in Eleanor's room so much and might like to be among her own stuff in her own room for a bit. Plus, without the distraction of a sloth, Eleanor could focus on her work.

Not that there was much work to do around Plant Parenthood most days, besides the usual, and with all the cushions around and some nice teas and books on hand, well, she was sort of regretting the decision to pass the sloth to Arden, because this would be premium snuggled-up-with-a-sloth conditions.

Even better snuggle up with her girlfriend not as a sloth conditions, really, but that had apparently not been in the cards for her that week.

Oh! In the cards!

In her downtime, then, Eleanor clearly decided to settle down with her tarot deck and see if anything interesting had changed in her reading since the last time.

Plant Parenthood is open!

mylandmyrules

Some green furry ...being in a trash can had stormed into the shop and yelled at her about something before storming back out again. Something about it being his day and she should stop being so cheerful.

Oddly, as grouchy as he was, there had been something really endearing about him.

Nell pondered on that as she got back to work in the store.

what_big_teeth

Eleanor was busy that morning; she wanted to use what time she could to cross-reference a few things from all the notes and books she had about herbology and apothecary to make sure that what she was putting together for Arden was really going to be helpful, although, really, it sounded like Arden was getting plenty of support and she half-worried that if she tried to help, too, then she'd just end up doing something wrong to throw it all off and make everything terrible again. But a few proven remedies and teas and lotions and things like that shouldn't be too bad, right? She couldn't mess that up, could she?

Well, if she did mess it up, Eleanor was looking at way more problems than just throwing a wrench in a friend's recovery.

And once that was finished, she moved on to her other notes and other books that she'd oh-so-handwavily gotten at the library, more spiritual ones, having to deal with concepts of the soul.

She was starting to feel like she would need some of those recovery remedies for herself once she was through with all that stuff...

Plant Parenthood is open!

mylandmyrules

Nell still had a lot to think about after the weekend, but mostly she was over the moon for Gladio. To be able to see his sister again after so long was amazing. It had been wonderful to see them together, watch them tease each other and laugh together. It just made her heart happy.

In other words, she could be excused if people found her singing quietly as she went about her work.

what_big_teeth

Eleanor was really hoping that working today would take her mind off of how nervous she was about Kamala's parents visiting for the weekend. Sure, she'd met them before, but that was very briefly, back when she was just some girl from school that Kamala had extended an invitation to and not, you know, her girlfriend. And, even though she was doing much better with remembering that things were different with Kamala, that Kamala herself was possibly as different from Lucy Spencer as anyone could be, she couldn't help but feel certain knots in her stomach, because things went Lucy turned after a weekend where she'd stayed over at Lucy's place for Christmas and met her parents...

So hopefully work would be a good distraction and postpone the inevitable a little bit, but it also gave her some time to sort of go over some of the Urdu she'd been learning in preparation to leave a good impression on Kamala's parents. She had a list of phrases and pronunciation to pour over, listening to language lessons on her phone as she went about the store, cleaning and taking care of the plants, and just trying not to get too worked up or nervous.

It helped, too, knowing that at least she didn't have to worry about anything when it came to her family for this. She didn't think they'd visit, even if she had asked.

(Dun dun dun....)

Plant Parenthood is open!

mylandmyrules

Plant Parenthood certainly didn't need the degree of deep cleaning that Covent Garden Flowers did, since Nell and Eleanor kept it up very well. That left Nell with plenty of time to put together some new orders and experiment a little with adding her own honey to some ideas she had for a new tincture.

In the afternoon she took time for her usual break with some fresh baked bread, with her own honey, and a cup of tea.

Please stop in to say hello and pick up anything you might need!

what_big_teeth

It was, for the most part, a completely average and unremarkable day for Eleanor. A few customers here and there, but mostly just caring for the plants,making herself some tea, enjoying the few remaining bites of snacks from Kamala's parents' latest care package, and reading up on plants that could be harvested and used in the fall, which was....well, it was harvested season for a reason, she supposed, but she was focusing mostly on flowers she wanted to have in the greenhouse some day if she ever got around to actually following through with that.

Perfectly average. Perfectly normal. Perfectly...fine. Which she greatly appreciated, actually.

Plant Parenthood is open!

mylandmyrules

Nell was happily working in the store today. She knew Steven would be by later so they could harvest some honey and she was really looking forward to that. In the meantime she took care of the plants in the back and restocked the shelves. There seemed to have been quite a run on some of her lotions, so she made a note to make up some more of those when she had some time.

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Eleanor had a few books of new poetry to start going through, but the morning started out surprisingly busy with someone who was very interested in Nell's local honey and had all sorts of questions about it that Eleanor didn't really know the answer to, apologizing profusely and suggesting they come in on a different day when the woman who harvested it was actually around. They didn't seem satisfied with that, leaving in a bit of a huff, but they still left with the honey, so that made Eleanor feel like it was an overall success, even if not exactly an ideal one.

And then that got her to wanting to research some of those answers to be better prepared for next time, and to satiate her own curiosity, which lead her into a rabbit hole of the medicinal properties of honey, especially in the use of apothecary, potions, and...well...magic spells, really. Although she still wasn't sure there was really that much of a difference between the two. That, a lot like tarot, most of the 'magic' was in the belief of it.

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Nell had spent most of the weekend harvesting the honey from her beehives and storing it for further use. She'd also put quite a lot of it into jars to sell here at the store while reserving a good amount for herself and to use in the various things she made. The beeswax had also been carefully collected for use in her lotions and skin creams - and perhaps even a foray into beeswax candles if the molds for them ever came in.

All this to say that today there was a sign in the window announcing Fresh Local Honey!

Come on in and try some with Nell's scones and tea!

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A lot had happened, since the last time Eleanor had used her tarot deck, and, once she was sort of finished with the usual tasks she took care of when she came into the shop for work, she started thinking about them a little bit and wondering how much another draw might have changed, or what her changed perspective might have had to say about what cards she did pull.

So she made herself some tea, lit some nice candles, and settled behind the counter to shuffle her deck and started with a new reading, book ready on her side to double check the meaning of each one as she drew them. Her hand swiped across the table as she laid the cards out and then made a selection of six. Collected the cards to set them aside, and then turned her attention to the six.

She turned the first one over, and was faced immediately with the Fool.

She frowned.

"Well, that isn't exactly encouraging," she murmured to herself, and set the card down before turning to the book to see exactly that it might have been suggesting.

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The nice thing about being the only other employee in a shop other than your boss was that the scheduling was pretty flexible, so the fact that Eleanor had a Thursday class with some tricky timing wasn't an issue, and she just shifted over to Fridays for this semester, instead.

She found herself, eventually, settling in behind the counter with a cup of tea and a book about hummingbirds and what plants they liked, which she blamed entirely on the few she'd spotted around the shop before coming in for her work day. She didn't find anything about drakondias specifically, but it seems like hummingbirds did seem to like lilies in general, and she started wondering if that was something that the others would enjoy having around the new house or not.

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Nell was busily making up a simple syrup for the new hummingbird feeders and filling them up - once it had properly cooled, of course. When they were all finished she ran them up to the roof to set them out.

She left a 'Back in Fifteen Minutes' sign on the door when she left, just in case anyone stopped by, but she might just have forgotten to take it down when she returned. However, anyone looking in would see her bustling around the store. Unless it was later in the afternoon in which case they'd see her in a chair by the window with a book and a cup of tea.

Wherever she was, she was absolutely interruptible, so please do stop by!

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Well, the nice thing about Nell's last class being here in the shop was that Eleanor was pretty much all ready there for her shift afterwards, although because the class was in the shop, everything was pretty much already in order and there wasn't a whole lot to do beyond the usual maintenance and helping out the rogue customer that wandered in.

But her quick trip back home after Senshi's class had left her with plenty to think about and do, although yesterday's shenanigans also gave her less to do, per se, but more to daydream about. So after thunking the new ledger for the Zarrin family finances onto the counter and peeling it open, she tried her best to focus on numbers and accounts and not Kamala's chin on her shoulder as they posed for a selfie and threats about trying to make her laugh as much as possible.

>Tried was definitely the operative word there.

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