Huernia (not to be confused with hernia)

I bought a little huernia cutting on Etsy a couple of months ago. I'd never heard of huernias before then, but I'm #1, a sucker for succulents, and #2, the listing said that the care was the same as for phalaenopsis orchids (which IMO are the easiest house plants in the world to grow), so I bought it.

When it arrived, it had a flower bud already starting to develop. But it dried up and fell off about a week later. But I'd have been more surprised if it hadn't fallen off. I mean, shipping from several hundred miles away is traumatic. At any rate, not long after that, a new bud started forming. I didn't take any pictures while the buds were small, but soon it became apparent that this baby was fixin' to bloom.


Look out! She's gonna blow!


And then, a couple days later, it started to open...


And now... TA DA!!!


Extreme closeup:


Pretty cool, eh?

Tiebreaker (or something)

The cup plant is all growed up now.

Milestone Moment

This is my 7th post this year. I made 5 posts in 2007, and 5 in 2008. Amazing stuff, eh? ;)

Zombies. They're EVERYWHERE!

I found this book in my grocery store and immediately snatched it up. The fact that it's being sold that mainstreamly just shows how incredibly popular anything zombie themed is. I can't help but think that Jane Austen would get a kick out of this book.


My Ash action figure is standing by just in case...

Retro LOLs

The Sinister 60's - It's Thanksgiving in July!

It's like Christmas in July, only scarier. It's the 60's... a simpler time. No cell phones, no internets, and your TV only gets 3 channels. So that leaves lots more time for good ol' wholesome family goodness. Right? But yet, I feel a strange disturbance in The Force. There's something lurking just below the surface here that's not quite right.

Something slightly sinister.

This poor kid looks like she hasn't seen food in years. She's like, "OMG FOOD!!!" Maybe she's been held prisoner in some "Silence of the Lambs" dungeon, and just let out to celebrate Thanksgiving with her captors. They even dressed her up real nice in a bonnet and put ribbons on her pigtails. But look how she's holding on to that glass of milk, as if for dear life. She's starving, I tell you, and she'll have no mercy on that ham. Or the yams. I'm betting she'll even eat the peas. And the garnish. And that hand shoving the plate in her direction?
I predict bite marks.

Soup's on!


Nothing screams "desperation" like dinner from a 60's era aluminum pan. And nothing screams "restraining order" like the stove shoved in front of the door.


What's with that look? Seriously. Is the turkey laced with cyanide?
I think the guy in the upper left is in on it.

The bees have been exterminated

The carpenter bee colony in my shed has been exterminated. But I didn't have to call an exterminator. (Not that I would, I like bees. Even bees that make colonies in my shed.) But gone they are.


A downy woodpecker had quite the feast eliminating the little critters as they laid unsuspecting in their tunnels.


A couple of opportunistic ants stopped by to pick up some carry out.

Family portrait

The Spock family recently moseyed down to their local Olan Mills Studio for a family portrait. Seriously.

If my photoshop skills weren't absolute zero, I'd have worked in one of those fake wagon wheels into the foreground.