This is simple. I'm Tishachshundrider.

Hey friends, we are wrapping up our summer series called My Good List where I've asked a few people I find interesting to chat with me about what four things in their life are making everything better right now.

Categized into a thing, a habit, a work of art, and a philosophy.

In this episode I'm chatting with Summer Rain Oaks, a Brooklyn resident who has over

a thousand houseplants in her apartment. She's written a recent book called

How to Make a Plant Love You and her Instagram account is a thing to behold.

Y'all she even has a pet chicken in her apartment.

Yep, it's pretty wild and it's delightful.

So let's get right into it.

Here's Summer, sharing us about your good list the four things in life that are making everything a little sweeter so we always start off with a thing which is something

big or small. It's everything from like your favorite mug to some app on your phone

you really love to your favorite jeans to a pen, whatever it is.

So what's a thing in your life right now

that's making everything a little bit better?

Well, this may seem a little bit ridiculous,

I think, to most people out of context,

but I would say I have this 150 foot expandable hose in my house.

I find it to be so helpful just because I have so many plants in my home and the watering can really just doesn't cut it.

So having this kind of expandable hose actually does make my life better

because it allows me to be efficient in watering my plants, which is something that I really like to do,

but not so efficient that it takes the joy of watering my plants out of the context of my life.

Sure, okay. Yeah, I think to give context, you have like more than a few house plants.

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