Random Rants and Prickly Plants

I spent all weekend planting my back alley... The problem was this. There's about a 3 feet wide strip beside my carport that had to be m...

An update on the Cemetary Cactus... Of all the little pups and chopped up pieces that survived the cemetary lawnmower, all but 2 rooted... w...

I usually try to take a pic of the first bloom this plant, Escobaria vivipara, puts out every year. But the first bloom was a couple of wee...

Mother and I went to visit friends of the family... Actually, more like family than some of my actual family... I spent a few minutes taking...

The first harvest from my straw bale garden... a zuchini... dinner tomorrow! And the purple coneflowers have started to bloom... And at work...

Actually, it started out as a thorny day... I had to do a couple of what I thought would be simple errands, so I called dispatch and told t...

I didn't have anything around to merit a real post, but I did have to let everybody know that I was still around, so here's some ran...

I finally, and belatedly, have to think SAM at http://learningtoheal-walk2write.blogspot.com/ for the wonderful box of specimen rocks that ...

When I'm working... I supposed to be chock full of all sorts of customer service skills... And, I'm usually pretty good about it......

Well, true to my blog name... When I post, I usually have a rant, or I have a plant. Rarely will it be both in the same post. Today it is......