glazing

until last week my only conception of glazing was the kind that requires sugar and water...and cacti and orchids were understood to be both hard to take care of and opposite ends of the watering spectrum.

but today it is a good thing i know what terminology to use to describe our leak situation otherwise i'd have had to resort to: "those fluted plastic panels in the greenhouse, you know that look kinda like accordions and kinda like corrugated cardboard and that oughta be letting the light in but can't as much with all the snow piled up on them?, well they've got water pouring in and forming icicles all along the wall there behind the plants with the prickly parts that aren't supposed to be watered and the plants with the gorgeous purple flowers and such that are supposed to be watered every day...."