Who wants to dig out a pot to bring a quarter cup of water to a boil or turn on the oven to toast a tablespoon of nuts?

When this result was brought about, Old Fezzy Wig clapped his hands to stop the dance, cried out, "Well done!" and the fiddler plunged his hot face into a pot of porter, especially provided for that purpose.

According to Diogenes Laertes, Zeno, the father of Stoicism, was tasked by his teacher Cretes to carry a pot of lentil soup through a large and busy neighborhood in Athens. From what I've read, this might be embarrassing for Zeno because lentils were considered to be a food for the poor. When Cretes saw that Zeno was embarrassed and was trying to hide the pot, Cretes used his cane to break the pot and spilled the soup all over Zeno. As Zeno ran away from shame, Cretes said, quote, Why run away, little Phoenician? Nothing terrible has happened to you.

All right, bring back a pot.

Well today is your lucky day and not because there's a leprechaun waiting at the end of the rainbow with a pot of gold.

I think it looks so beautiful, the way it waterfalls out of a pot if it's hanging on the ceiling, or the way it cascades down the side of a surface.

That way when you're at the plant store You can check the tag to see if it's going to be an appropriate match and while you're at the plant store Anyway, there's also another couple things you might want to consider So when you found a really beautiful healthy plant that you know is the one that you want to take home One of the things I recommend doing is very gently Take the plant out of the pot just to see what the root situation is like here You can see that there's a whole bunch of roots along the outside and on the bottom So it might be a good idea to just buy a larger inner pot that you can then transfer it to you can also look For a nice outer pot that will fit the repotted plant while you're still at the nursery You It's incredibly important that the pot that your plant is in has holes because we need the water to be able to drain But not all pots with holes are created equal like this one for example also has holes But there's a valley beneath the holes and this is a place where water can collect and the problem with water Collecting is it can cause the roots to rot which might mean the plant could eventually die So the point here we want to make sure we get a pot with holes at the bottom most point of the container So when we were at the nursery we talked about the importance of repotting plants that have outgrown their current home But a lot of plants don't take well to a change in their environment But I'm going to share with you a technique that my mom taught me and it works really really well Essentially all you do is first wet the soil before adding it to the new pot So you want it to be moist enough that it sticks together But you don't want it to be dripping wet either and the reason that this works is it encourages the roots to go out and Explore this new wet territory, and it helps it to settle into its new environment a little bit better Then we'll transfer the soil along the bottom and the sides of the new pot We'll gently remove the plant from its nursery container and transfer it to its new home and add some extra soil around the sides And along the top you can gently press down on it as well But not too much because we want to give the roots some room to branch out and then at the very end We're going to water it just a little bit so that the old soil gets a bit of moisture as well Over-watering and under-watering plants is probably the single most common reason why a lot of house plants die But every plant is very specific when it comes to its watering requirements But there are a few important rules of thumb that might help.

Select a pot that's just one size bigger than the root ball of your devil's ivy.

Next, chasing rainbows or chasing a pot of gold.

All right, these rare orange lobsters are not going to an aquarium because they don't want to live in a tank, and they're not going into a pot because they're not food.