Another selection of colorful cactus blooms (and Fibonacci spirals!) from my gardens today.
Ignore the weeds.
Clearing out weeds now that some of the days are warmer and unrainy is how I discovered some of these beauties. So out came the camera!
My self-isolation creative writing lesson for today.
I was watching “The End Of All Things” when suddenly my smart TV went blank, followed by a bunch of static, and then a ghostly apparition appeared:
Ghostly apparition (very slowly): Hello, Russel. This is God.
Russel: Hello, God! How’s it going, dude?
God: I am not a dude. I’m a dudette.
Russel: A-ha! (not the group). I always suspected you were ever since my term paper in junior English class in high school.
God: Yes. I read that paper. Very good thesis and very good supporting research.
Russel: So what do I owe this pleasure today, God?
God: I want you to give up margaritas.
Russel: Ha! What’s in it for me?
God: I know you care about people and you have been tracking the novel coronavirus that I lovingly sent the world, yes?
Russel: Yep. I knew it was you! So, again, why should I give up margaritas?
God: If you give up margaritas, I’ll call an end to the COVID-19 pandemic and return everything to normal.
Russel: What about the thousands of people who have died?
God: They are collateral damage. Nothing can be done about them.
Russel: But if your son, Jesus, can come back to life, why not other people?
God: Because they are not my children.
Russel: A-ha! (again, not the group). I knew it! I knew it the first time I saw children dying from cancer.
I thought I would share some pictures from my gardens this past week to cheer us up in these dystopian times we seem to be living in.
Of course, cactus are my specialty, and this is cactus-blooming season. I have included the name of the plant if I know it. The ones that are unnamed probably are species of Mammillaria, Rebutia, Sulcorebutia, and Notocactus since I know I have some of those in my gardens.
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Ferocactus wislizeni
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White flowers never have been my favorite colored flowers, so it’s obvious that I did not know the color of the flowers on this plant when I bought it. However, the flowers are gigantic and beautiful nonetheless.
Trichocereus grandiflorus (Thai hybrid)
There is a microclimate on my property in the corner where the garage attaches to the house. Temperatures are about 10-20°F lower than elsewhere. It’s so cool and shaded from our hot East San Diego County boondocks sun that I can grow geraniums, begonias, fuchsias, and ferns in that corner. Here are a couple of my geraniums that are starting to bloom.
I love mass plantings of flowering plants but at this stage of my life, I have decided to live without the room required for mass plantings. However, I do have fifteen Aloe striata planted in a row in front of a fence. They are awesome when they bloom with a billion orange flowers on top of tall stalks (inflorescences).
My Aloe striatas started throwing up inflorescences in early March. It takes a couple of weeks for them to reach height and start blooming. Then it takes three or four weeks for all the flowers to bloom and green dohickeys (fruit) to show up, providing that the bees and hummingbirds have been doing their jobs.
Thank you, bees and hummingbirds.
My boredom exhibited in my previous post was due to an injured thumb on my right hand which prevented me from doing much of anything except sitting here with an ice pack on it and watching television.
I hate it when I can’t multi-task.
I would like to say that a long cactus spine poked me under the nail and then I got Euphorbia ‘Sticks of Fire’ sap in it which caused it to swell up like a baseball. That didn’t happen.
I would like to say that Little Queen Olivia mangled my thumb, giving me a good case of Cat Scratch Fever. That didn’t happen either.
What really happened is that, after 65 years 1 month and 11 days on this Earth, I still bite my fingernails. I sometimes (sometimes?) bite them so short that they start bleeding. Occasionally they get infected. That’s what happened. Doesn’t sound near as cool as the two previous scenarios….
This was not the first time I’ve gone through this, but it definitely was the worst. I have found throughout life that the best way for me to prevent this is to keep busy—work, gardening, playing with Little Queen Olivia, typing, playing the piano…. anything that keeps my hands out of my mouth….
Maybe I could wear a mask all the time!
The only reason I went to Urgent Care on Sunday was because the pain at the tip of my thumb was expanding into my whole thumb, my palm, the outside of my hand, and into two other fingers. I could not move my hand without severe pain.
I took an aspirin at 11:30 p.m. on Sunday. Thirty minutes later I was in worse pain. I took 2000 mg of acetaminophen. Thirty minutes later, worse still, so I took 800 mg of ibuprofen. Thirty minutes after that the pain had subsided enough that I was able to get in a catnap. Tells me a lot about aspirin, acetaminophen, and ibuprofen….
Normally, I would have gone to the 24/7 Urgent Care 1.9 miles down the road, but in these dystopian COVID-19 times we are living in, it’s not open 24/7. Neither are the other two within 10 miles of me. Additionally, Urgent Care doctors are not on premises right now because they all are needed at the hospitals. The first two Urgent Care’s told me to go to the hospital, which also has an Urgent Care, and which is where I eventually found myself.
When I finally saw a doctor at the hospital’s Urgent Care facility, he gave me a prescription for antibiotics, a prescription-strength Motrin, and a really cool reusable ice pack. He told me it would get worse before it got better and told me to come back in 24-48 hours if it didn’t get better. He also told me that for this kind of pain, ibuprofen only.
It got better, and it’s getting better. This, however, might be the event that convinces me to quit biting my fingernails.
Another 48 margaritas and I should be good to go again!
And no, I did not put a picture of my thumb on Facebook.
After reading about this nasty occurrence, I thought I should leave you with some beautiful pink flowers for your Wednesday.
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I had the need to go to Urgent Care yesterday morning.
There are three within 10 miles of me, two independent and one associated with a hospital, all normally open 24/7 but with reduced hours due to COVID-19.
I went to the closest one but they didn’t have any doctors on premises; they all were at hospitals.
The second one also didn’t have any doctors because they also all were are at hospitals.
The hospital-associated Urgent Care had a long wait because all their doctors were at the hospital. Fortunately, the hospital was right next door, but it does take time to finish with a hospital patient and walk over to Urgent Care.
There was a lady sitting across the aisle from me. Although she was talking on her phone very softly, I heard every word she said since we were the only two waiting.
When she said, “Honey, I really don’t give a flying fuck,” I realized that, after 65 years, one month, and 9 days on this Earth, I never have heard someone give a flying fuck. And I know the reason!
I believe I am the only one who has a flying fuck to give.
Well, no more!
Here you go.
It’s reusable, so give a flying fuck whenever you want!
My wise old grandmother taught me to share. You’re welcome.
I created a word puzzle for your self-isolation enjoyment based on various games from my youth. Sure wish I had a few of these games now!
For the first time in my life, I’m actually afraid of the future because I’m too old to be of much help in doing anything about it.
Many Republican leaders are telling me that I’m a burden on the system.
I should be willing to die for the economy.
Die for the Dow, baby, die for the Dow.
I believe that the Twitler Crime Family Administration and its enablers and supporters have done so much damage to the U.S.A. and its standing in the world that the country will not recover for several generations and many decades.
Our allies will be cautious in dealing with us because, well, if it can happen once, it can happen again. Sure, Democrats can reverse the damage, but as history shows us, if any party goes too far in one direction, the opposing party ultimately takes over.
I believe the Democrats are headed for a landslide victory up and down the ballot, as evidenced in Wisconsin last week. And I believe they will restore the CDC, funding to WHO, the EPA, and all the other damage done. But then I believe they will go too far left, too fast, and eventually the Criminal Party will take over again. Wash, rinse, and repeat.
The system is broken, but the system benefits the rich, and to go into politics, you have to be rich or know how to become rich by getting people to give you money. The people who benefit from the system are not going to be the people who change the system.
The rich have seen that they don’t need expensive buildings to accomplish their crimes. They can let everyone work at home, so their employees are on the hook for office space rent, utilities, etc. In fact, it would be better if employees did not come in to an office because then all the criminal activities would not be seen by anyone except the criminals.
I am going crazy from this self-isolation.
I just had a talk with the microwave and toaster oven, and we agreed that things are getting bad, verging on dystopian bad, which could be why the television keeps recommending dystopian movies for me to watch.
I didn’t say anything to the washing machine because of her knack of putting a spin on everything.
The refrigerator seemed a little cold and distant. Not unlike him. That’s just the way he is.
Hoover said, “Suck it up, baby, suck it up!”
The toilet was looking a little flushed and didn’t want to talk about anything.
The doorknobs were at their annual convention and unanimously passed a resolution telling me to “Get a grip!”
The iron calmed me down some, saying that everything will be fine since no situation is too pressing.
The fan joined in with an optimistic view that everything would soon blow over.
I went to the living room to admire the beautiful sunrise when the front door decided to interject, saying that I was unhinged.
The curtains chimed in, telling me to pull myself together.
I went out to my gardens to talk with my plants. Almost every one simply told me not to be a prick.
Ah well, at least I have my mid-morning margaritas. I sure hope they don’t start talking to me.
A very interesting Halloween last night.
Good to see the kids social distancing.
And the masks. O.M.G. There were some great masks, especially of President Twitler, who won the night with over 500 kids wearing masks of him.
I handed out over a thousand pieces of candy (Three Musketeers, Milky Way, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Kit Kat).
Some of the kids were asking for toilet paper.
Ha! Been there, done that.
I wasn’t about to give them toilet paper so they could go TP the house down the road, or even come back later and TP my house.
They must think we old farts are stupid.
Wait.
Hmmmm.
It was the 31st, though.
Nevermind.
Darn after midnight, margarita-inspired nightmares.
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