Funny!

I spent the day clearing the grass and climbing weeds from my cactus gardens. Oh my pincushion body! I was bleeding from several places, despite the extreme care I took.

Yours truly was on the radio this morning to Howard Garrett, my guru, The Dirt Doctor. I asked a couple of cactus questions. I have some bugs that bore into them and cause spots and drain liquid. I also have a problem of grass over the top of all of this pretty cactus (especially after all of last year's rain. If it had been dry this grass wouldn't have grown, because I don't water this part of the yard).

He didn't know what the bugs were, so I emailed photos and I should hear from him later on this week. And I figured that since I was calling about the cactus problem they must be important enough to me that I should spend some time making them look good. They've been a mess for over a year, a few pads showing in a tangle of weeds.

I'll go take a couple of Motrin before bed. It should help with the sore spots on my fingers and my aching back from the combination of standing perfectly still to avoid spines and the the bending and stooping necessary to reach the grass from all angles.

SRS