Hey, Rucky--Ron, Feels strange, doesn't it, to feel like an orphan when you're not a kid. My sympathies to the max to you. Very hard to lose the folks. very hard.
Grief can get to be a habit, if you get sad at the same old feelings that arise over and over. I say to myself, when the downners crowd in, I say, "Stop it!" and go find something to be grateful for, and something to cheer me up.
I have so dam many adeniums! A tray full of about fifty that need their own pots, and several dozen over there that need weeding. and and and---
POLL: Do you pull weeds, or cut them with scissors?