Sunday, July 12, 2009

So, my truck is in the shop again... until Wednesday. I'm sincerely not happy... it's the same dang problem... we're seriously trying to figure out what is wrong with the thing that makes it keep doing this...

But since I don't have any new pics from around and about, I went to the kalaidascope maker, see the links to the right, and was playing around. It's quite addictive...

this started out as a pic of Phennig sitting on the lawn...


and this is a pic of a lizard sitting on the hay bales...
and this is my little pocket Buddha...

This one is a Passionflower from the yard...

And that's how I've been wasting my time.
That and buying things on ebay... sometime over the next couple of days I'm expecting a package containing 5 little Ferocactus wislezeni plants. They were described as being 2 inches in diameter, and they were 1.00 each... so I bought 5. They're hardy to 5 degrees Farenheight, and in this part of the country they're very expensive. If I stick them in the ground, they're an investment... I can always yank them up after a couple of years and sell them. Or that's what I told myself. I'm far more likely to sell my blood than these guys... I've been wanting a couple of them for at least 5 years. Besides, the longer I keep them, the bigger they'll get and the more valuable they'll be.

I know it would be a lot more practical to buy a bigger one... these are at least 7 years from blooming size, 10 years more like it... but the truth is I like to watch little cactus turn into big cactus. It always makes me feel like I've achieved something. Which is strange, as the primary chore with cactus is waiting, but I guess waiting can be an achievement too...

5 comments:

  1. You are younger than I am. I figure I'm not going to last long enough to start with baby cactus--and besides that, I'm so darned impatient. I want blooms as soon as possible! You should have asked me--I coulda given you a couple of barrel babies!
    Aiyana

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  2. Aiyana - I wouldn't dream of begging cactus from anybody... besides, searching, comparing prices, reading feedback profiles, etc, wasted a good hour, and that was really the point. I'm not used to being locked in a house with nothing to do...

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  3. Claude...my gosh...this is terrible for you to not be able to work!!! At least you are keeping busy with all of this playing and shopping! You are as bad as me!!!

    I want to see your little cactus when you get them!

    Amazing what happens with those pics when you mess around with them like that, isn't it! I really like how the Buddha one has all the little faces around the edge!!! I never found my little orange Buddha either...I best see is if I can get a new one!!!

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  4. Ditto Aiyana! I like the way the Lizard pic turned out. If we just had the money....car deals galore!!

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