Beauty and the Beast

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The three top photos are of smaller plants that are cuttings from the 'mother plant' at the bottom [hanging plant]. At one time, a couple years ago, I needed to replace the macrame hanger and several pieces broke off in the interim. Not to mention the innumerable amounts of tiny cactus needles I had to remove from my gloved hands!! [While living in the desert of Arizona, I learned a quick and painless way of removing the prickly needles --- by putting school glue -such as Elmer's Glue™- and allowing for drying time...you then, peel off the glue and the needles come out with you peeling!!!] I put broken cactus arms into smaller clay pots and this year, they're blooming! So, now I have five all together. A couple of weeks ago for Macro Monday, I posted my anticipation of this particular cactus species blooming. Several comments from the post two weeks ago stated that the blossom was pretty...well, to clarify it from the post then...it WASN'T the blossom!! As I stated, it was just the bud. BEFORE it BLOOMED, see the cactus bud post from the link I just added. I gotta tellya'll, I really wanted to say to those who said the blossom was pretty at that time....I wanted to say "You ain't seen nothin'"!!!



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MONDAY MORSELS

Do you search for lyrics to a song, or perhaps get into a site to try and read the news or post that you've searched for...only to be inundated with embedded advertisements that you have to close manually? Well, I went out to Google the other day and typed in a song title with lyrics behind the title...thing is, I got into a site with ringtones AND the lyrics. But there were several embedded advertisements. And to top it all off, there were TWO that had no closing 'x' anywhere to be seen. In other words, I opted to leave the site and go back to Google to find another link. Lo and behold, another group of embedded ads. That enticed me to do another kind of Google search. I went back, typed in "How do I get rid of embedded advertisements?". Several links came up. One in particular was associated with Firefox Browser. Which I use. I went out to the site and read all there was, and part of it mentioned that this add-on would eliminate the ads on ringtone sites and you tube, etc. I used my 'tools' tab and at the search window I typed in the name. Installed it. And voilá!! No more embedded crapola stuff!! Pop up ads are eliminated also. Altho, the name of the add-on leaves a lot to be desired, if you know your slang any, here is the LINK. You can also use the preferences to set it up as you desire.