Try, try, try, try and then quit

This is the remnant of my last attempt to grow a STUPID avocado plant. You would think it would be easy to grow a plant from a seed that sprouts roots in your window sill. And to be honest...every attempt to replace the amazing avocado plant Scott brought into our marriage has failed. The plant that Scott had was over 6 feet tall and beautiful. I am usually quite good with house plants but Avocado's have something against me. Maybe because it took me 45 years to like the fruit/vegetable/green slimy edible thingy. I can get the seed to sprout, the leaves to grow ...then one day all the leaves are curling up, the next they are dropping off and I am left with a stump like this one dead and more dead.  This is the fourth attempt and I am now officially finished with the trying.

It really irks me though. I have looked online, I have followed protocol for growing and snipping and watering. I have talked nicely, put the plant in sunny but not too sunny places. I even kept the dead looking stump over a month with the idea that it may decided on a whim...much like it did to die, to come forth with new life. It sits and mocks me in its deadness.

Scott often sighs and reminds me how lovely his Avocado plant was...how lovingly it grew for him.

So I put the stump outside in the cold...I dare it to survive.

 I secretly hope it will...

I may try again...

one more time!