“K” is for Kalanchoe.

I’m looking at it every day as I spend time at my computer. I want to share the picture showing how it doubled in growth in one year.

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Please read the earlier Christmas Cactus blog message.

Directly below, four pictures from 2015. Current images at the bottom of this message.

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Changing the subject….

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As promised, I’m working on “dumping” or “donating.” It’s amusing the things I’m finding among the boxes recently transported from the mini-storage to my resident site. I have several boxes of “disaster preparedness” and I’ve discovered that they have been packed for many years. Am I prudent or pathetic?? ~~ Remember my earlier message where I was preparing,  locally, for “hurricane preparedness”??

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**If** I load all my “preparedness” into my KIA, the back two-thirds of my vehicle will be FULL. One act of preparation I must not ignore: Keep the gas tank full.

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**If** the CARE residents evacuate, we’ll be going about fifty miles to a shelter in Lufkin.

Wimpy old lady ventured out–wearing a coat–but quickly returned to the warm trailer. She wanted to “check” the Christmas Bottle Tree. (Warm trailer and the computer.)

That’s “subjective,” isn’t it?

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Look at the time stamp on the picture identified as “Time to mulch the plants.” Just shy of ten o’clock. Time to take a break at twelve noon but I’m delighted with all that I accomplished this morning.

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I’m a “bargain hunter” and could not resist the purchase of a looks-like-new trash container. I’ve looked at those (at Tractor Supply and Lowe’s) but would not pay their high price. Tentatively (in the Spring), I plan to plant the Texas Lilac in that container so I can maneuver the Lilac for “just the right location (in my yard).”

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Postscript, 2:00 PM: The air temperature “feels” cold and damp although the outdoor temperature still records sixty-one degrees. After lunch, I returned to outdoor projects but I’m “wimpy” and retreated to the warmth of my trailer home.

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Hard rain @ 6:15 PM.

…check the weather!! Houston TV meteorologist’ have my attention–and (as always), I check my on-site weather station.

Next shopping trip, I’ll purchase another sensor and thermometer to hang in the tarp shelter. (Recently, I moved sensor from tarp shelter to greenhouse.) ~~ At 6:55 AM, the TV meteorologist was saying “Twenty-five degrees colder than yesterday.” Moments later, the Today Show was showing pictures of tornadoes in seven Southern states–and fires in Tennessee. “Texas will have heavy rain on Saturday.” ~~ Counting my blessings!!

More accurately: A “vase  tree.”

Too few “red” bottles available so I’ve decorated with red vases from Dollar Tree. Likewise, clear glass vases with lights inserted (“clear” vases [by the dozens] available from Thrift Shops). This was a pre-planned highly anticipated project. Click each picture to enlarge for better view.

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“Colorful” but the lights are not well-distributed.

Should I “redo”??