Avocadocumentary--Part 9: Leaf Phase II!

For those of you who came in late, it's a new year! Avobaby's resolution is to get branches, while Potatobob's is to...not get any more bugs. Last week I discovered to my horror that aphids had gotten to Potatobob. I'm still not sure how exactly they got there either, unless they were already on it when I got it and were woken up by Potatobob's sprouting. Either way, this was not good, and required rectification. I first thought I could get away with using the forceps from my old dissection kit (you know you've converted from biology to botany when your old dissection kit is now used for botanical surgery) to pick them off a la hungry bird, but there were a lot there, and they had a thing for hiding in the leaf whorls where I couldn't get at them. There were also some weird grub things which I plucked off. Both the grub things and the aphids were really starting to get to me (particularly what happened when I pulled them off, which I'm not going to go into), and eventually I was so nauseous from the proceedings that I abandoned the forceps idea and hit them with my insecticidal soap. They got another hit today. That'll teach them to bother Potatobob.

Anyway, on to Avobaby pictures!

( All your leaf are belong to us! What you say? )

On a different note, my comment on the current weather:

WTF. NO SERIOUSLY WTF. WTFOMGOMGWTF. IT'S THE BEGINNING OF JANUARY AND IT'S 70 DEGREES OUT.

THE APRICOT TREES ON CAMPUS ARE BLOOMING.
THE CHERRY TREES IN DC ARE BLOOMING.
MY LUNGWORT IS STILL ALIVE.
MY FRICKIN' DAYLILIES ARE COMING UP.

WEATHER STOP IT OMGARGH THIS IS NOT GOOD. JAPANESE MAGNOLIA, DO NOT START. DO NOT SUBMIT TO PEER PRESSURE. YOU ARE ABOVE THE INFLUENCE.