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...