My pick of the Tuesday offerings is the Home Store   THS - OLD WELL PLANTER M/C.   8 land impact, it includes animated butterflies.  A very pretty addition for many garden stylings.    

Well not so funny really but "interesting" anyway.  

Those of you who applied for a SL20B plot may have noted that they were also accepting previous builds from past years.  I had a 4096 build that had been in an invitational artist plot back when the birthday bash was a private citizen affair and not put on by The Lab.  I found the build in my inventory and rezzed it a couple hindered meters below my building pad so that the folks OKing admissions could see it.   All good. 

Today I received a note asking me to confirm that I still wanted a large parcel.  I was in the midst of  filling out the form for what WAS to be my "retro" exhibit but forgot the exact name. I went over to check my sample rezzed build.  While some parts of the build were still there, the complex part -- the egg on pencil on rope held by pillars -- was gone. It was also nowhere in my inventory. I looked for over an hour with no success. 

I always -- ALWAYS -- keep copies of past builds when they are over. I just this weekend picked up the styling stuff from the B&B Collective event.  Oddly as I was searching for that older missing build I found very few of my SL birthday builds still in my inventory.  I could find the take up of the Shop and Hop from the same year as the missing items, just not the birthday build.  

This isn't a big surprise for me and I didn't rant or panic or swear.  I did plenty of that when I had my first (known anyway) inventory "deletion" about fifteen years ago. It was my complete House and Garden folder and as you can imagine that was a pretty devastating loss.  A decade and more ago the mantra was "oh you didn't really lose anything you just need to clear your cache - they never actually LOSE anything".    Well that has been proven wrong so many times I can't even keep count even to the point of items disappearing from INSIDE vendor boxes both inworld and on the Marketplace. 

So -- I still keep taking backups in hopes of it helping now and then. I still rez lots of things that I love and are important to me.  I have the UUID written down on a notecard of Pearl, my Firestorm Kitty who has been rezzed ever day of her very VERY long virtual life.  Do I think it solves the problem?  Of course not.  This most recent disappearance most likely happened during those days when pretty much nothing was working if you wanted to do anything besides stand and IM or chat :D.  Not unexpected I guess but USUALLY things that are rezzed are "safer". Not this time. 

I do now as you might have noticed paste in the EXACT names of items I am featuring. This is as much for ME as for you and let's me find out if I still have the item or not -- or at least it is a start in that direction.  We do what we can do and keep the memories in our heads for reflection.  The photo above was part of the build that disappeared. Some of you may have seen it at UWA or at a long ago SL birthday bash. You will NOT be seeing it at this upcoming event.   

There will still be an ARTSCAPE exhibit with some gifts and hopefully the absence  of my fairly impressive for its time build will not make a huge dent in the festivities. 

Rosemary is an easy to grow perennial. It is hardy, grows very very quickly (both a good and bad thing) and can be left alone throughout the winter with minimal or no care. 

Now I don't like to EAT rosemary, but I like the smell and it is a "good energy" feng shui plant, especially by your front door.

I have two plants on my back deck.  They arrived last year from a friend and were tiny in four inch pots.  I really wanted larger ones but I planted the small-fries and let them grow up.  This year they are starting out at about 16 inches and look great along the side of the house. They will grow in sun or shade. My deck is mostly shaded until 3 pm when the sun comes around to the west and it can get really HOT.  Still they are happy.  

These very pretty virtual plants are the new group gift from Ariskea (low join fee and past gifts available). They feature rock mulch which mirrors my corporeal versions.  Good LODs and 1 land impact at real life sizes.

I am sure that in a couple of years my current plants will need to move to a more permanent area. Either side of my front stoup sounds like a plan. 

Nutmeg. Vegetable Crate

ChiC buildings Garden Potting with Crates

Out for 25 Tuesday the On a Lark  *OAL* Akari Kimono with optional Obi and trim color hud.   I paired it with one of the colors available in the Blueberry - Poppy Leggings - Special Winter Etd. Colors Pack.    It definitely looks like Spring. Woot!    Kupra, Legacy, Maitreya, Reborn with petites sizing fits available. Tons of base colors. This is "snow".  

Pose: SEMotion