This afternoon I started taking out a cactus that has proved to be a lot more work than I expected. I've made two trips to city hall to pick out boxes from the paper recycle bin to load up with the pads from this huge thing. I'm leaving a pretty pickly pear that grows from a single trunk, but this big sprawling thing can be so ugly when it is full of weeds that are almost impossible to get out of it.

SRS