It started out as a single paddle in a tiny pot a number of years ago. Over the years it grew and grew eventually becoming a very pretty cactus plant. And this year it is doing something it never had done before. It is […]
Author: robrose
A Look Back in Time
On March 6th we drove to the far eastern end of the street we live on to await the launch of Starship 8. Living some 70 miles west of Starbase all we can see of the launches is the vapor trail in the sky. […]
It Was Truly a Frog Strangler
I didn’t post yesterday and the reason can be found in the above red box. We had a “severe thunderstorm” hit yesterday just as I was getting ready to write the blog. The rainfall total was 8.60 inches for the storm. The electric was […]
The Beginning Is Not The End
Palm trees drop hundreds and hundreds of seeds on the ground. Only a very few of those seeds ever actually sprout. The image shows two of them that sprouted in one of our front flower beds. My wife was weeding those flower beds and […]
How I Deal With YouTube Ads
YouTube seems like its becoming a cesspool of ads and I’m not paying Google money to be somewhat ad free. So, what with YouTube being the place the hucksters have taken over with ads that are sometimes longer than the video I want to […]