Drug News

post from Cactus Blog on 27 January 2012 04:38:51 PM. © Cactus Blog

Action 4 News from the far southern Texas border region warns you to look for Meth in your Cactus shipments. Or if you don’t get truck shipments, then the grocery store would be a good place to check.

Two men are behind bars after authorities found more than 132 pounds of crystal meth hidden inside a prickly pear cactus shipment….
The truck was carrying 1,380 boxes of “nopales,” which are prickly pear cactus pads used for cooking…
Officials found 94 packages with 132.2 pounds of crystal meth hidden inside the produce.

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Cactus in Winter

post from Cactus Blog on 27 January 2012 04:38:51 PM. © Cactus Blog

Ferocactus glauca has mid-winter buds. I wonder why? Still, it will be months before we see blooms. I bet on June.

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Coffee Grounds and Other Useful Garden Helpers

post from Organic Gardening And Green Lifestyle on 27 January 2012 03:43:45 PM. © Organic Gardening And Green Lifestyle

There is the theory that coffee grounds are great for your soil. If you are huge into gardening and always trying something new to help your garden stay green, this might be the perfect time for you to find out and give a review. Cool things for your garden Using coffee grounds in your garden [...]

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delivery

post from Notes from Wazoo Farm on 27 January 2012 03:37:36 PM. © Notes from Wazoo Farm

I used to order organic flour, raisins, and peanut butter--things like that--from a wholesaler. I've fallen off that wagon now but I still receive e-mails alerting me to deliveries. Nancy used to send out the news but since she fell sick, a guy named Joshua has taken over.

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This is what I see in my inbox every two weeks or so, and though I never click on the e-mail I'm rather fond of the subject line, especially since it's from Joshua. It makes me think of a Biblical prophet announcing my salvation.

I have some things Joshua could deliver me out of, don't you? I'd like to give him a catalogued list sometime. But then I wonder, as Merry has in the past about perfection, if that is something I really desire. "I mean, you wouldn't have anything to work on anymore," Merry has told me. She's right. If you were practically perfect in every way, what would you possibly find to overcome anymore?

There are so many small things that plague me, but the journey to overcoming them (which is a journey without an end, as far as I can tell), is worthwhile. For instance, even though I've been a writer for many years now, starting a new writing project is still daunting for me. The blinking cursor, the blank page. I feel as if I have to take a deep breath and jump that hurdle every time. And often my shins are all skinned by the end and I have to go back to the beginning and start over again.

Maybe, too, I secretly love my vices just a little bit. Sometimes it feels really good to lose my cool and shout, though afterward I feel as if I've lost something. Again--more than just my temper.

Joshua,today deliver me from the stress of the week into a long, cool happy hour.

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DIY: PVC Pipe Strawberry Planter

post from A Gardener's Notebook on 27 January 2012 02:45:18 PM. © A Gardener's Notebook

Vertical growing, whether upside down (tomatoes) or right side up (the strawberries below) has been a big trend of late. The fact is though, vertical growing has long been a way to make the most of small space. Espalier is a way of pruning fruit trees to have them grow in a flat plane i.e. [...]

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Wheelbarrow Succulents

post from Cactus Blog on 27 January 2012 10:40:18 AM. © Cactus Blog

San Pablo Ave.

I hope you like the “vignette blur” feature I’m now using to make the local Berkeley succulent photos look more interesting. I mean, this wheelbarrow is already very interesting, for sure, you know, and all, but maybe a little more interesting with the weird blur effect that makes it look like a toy?

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ROME: The Coliseum

post from The Garden of Eaden on 27 January 2012 05:37:53 AM. © The Garden of Eaden

CLICK HERE FOR THE NEW 'GARDEN OF EADEN' WEBSITE AND SEED SHOPEven in today?s world of high rise[...]

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ROME: Gladiator

CLICK HERE FOR THE NEW 'GARDEN OF EADEN? WEBSITE AND SEED SHOPThe term Gladiator is synonymous with[...]

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Vote for Your Favorite Gardening Photo

There are only a couple of days left to vote for your favorite winning photo from last year's Gardening Photo Challenges.We had 6 themed challenges and picked our favorites, based on both the quality of the photo and how well they conveyed a love of gardening. Now it's time to pick the Best Photo of the Year.

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