A True Display of Optimism

Alright! Alright!

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I haven't been inspired!

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Sleepless nights are beginning to take their toll. A psychologist or psychiatrist might recommend "clearing my conscience" but I have no conscience to clear! (ha, ha!)

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Seriously. On occasion, I go through about a week of inability to sleep at night. Then it all smooths out and I sleep like the proverbial log. I think it is a 'woman thing' having to do with misplaced, mixed up, running amok, hormones...or something of that nature.

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But I did better better last night upon the advice of the SIL..."now I lay me down to sleep"....

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I truly haven't been very inspired but I've wracked my picture files for something of semi-interest to post.

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Back in the early part of the summer, I took a day trip with my friend to a neighboring town. When she completed her mission for the trip, we stopped at the neatest place you've ever seen. It was the main business in town....a combination pharmacy, general store, antique store. With a business like this, what other is needed?

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In front of the store was this monster cactus!

This plant was awesome!

I decided to investigate a little farther and found that this gigantic growth was sitting in a 5 gallon bucket!

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I marched myself into the store and asked one of the clerks about it. I was told that this cactus attracted many customers to their store...that it had been there for years and years and had never had any maintenance whatsoever!

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WOW! This is the kind of plant I need!

So...very carefully, with the aid of paper towels and plastic bags, I broke off a couple of the leafs(?) Is that what they're called? Anyway, those things that are shaped like paddles. And talk about prickley stickers! Even being as careful as I could be, I still have one embedded in the end of my finger.

I came home and planted the two leafs in an old wash pot that we have in the back yard!

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Sidenote: What is the plural of leaf? Leaves? Leafs? I need to utilize Mr. Webster!

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Yep! It's beginning to sprout babies! Maybe one day, years and years from now, I'll have a cactus that looks like the first picture!

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How's that for being optimistic?

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Everybody have a great day!!