bogfrog

i think you are spot on with this one, thanks very much for stating the previously unnoticed obvious. i have a serious lack of things to do with my time and am currently applying for teachers college, although i had been putting off writing my application - which i just did today! my attitude towards aliens is a mixture of fear and admiration depending on the one in question but yes they are a reacurring element, usually infinitely more powerful and intelligent than me, yet they want to kill me for some reason. they never suceed though. lol maybe its something to do with the anagram my parents called me. I am Kea, which they also decided means Keep Earth Alive.

i dream in colour. i have had dreams in which i take trips too, very interesting when you consider all the visual elements and sensations are just as real as if you had actually taken something while awake. could it be these altered states of conciousness are much more accessable for you to slip into while in a dream state? when i was a boozer i would always drag myself home wasted as, go to sleep and then continue partying in my dreams - often getting up to really ridiculous stuff, which left me very confused in the morning as to what i really did and what i just dreamed i did! dreams are just infinitely fascinating, would love a job studying them - now that would be a very happy and interesting lifestyle!! i have only once achieved full lucidity for a very short time, it was after a very confusing dream a few years ago about being in my aunti and uncles big mansion and the staircases and walls kept changing and morphing like in harry potter, then i squeezed through this gap inbetween two walls into this weird room and i was looking around and there were all these big logs hanging from chains on the roof with pieces of my friends multi-coloured hair draped over them and big brown sheets hanging between each two logs with some silhouettes of various monsters on them and i was scared so tried to turn on a light switch then because i had seen in a movie that you apparently cant turn on or off lights in a dream BAM i realised i was dreaming, but i was still afraid so i jumped out of a window and woke up after about 5 seconds of lucidity. would love to work out how to do it again, have never seemed to notice light switches in dreams since.

dont mind tool, saw them live when i was 15 and didnt know who they were, some of my old friends hated me for that lol. i have a freakishly talented musical family but somehow my parents and i missed out all of my cousins play atleast 3 instruments each varying from piano, violin, organ, cello and double bass, along with being soprano singers, and my aunti is a musical genius, composes all her own stuff for the church they go to and sings like and angel, while my uncle conducts the symphony orchestra and teaches shit loads of instruments. i'm a wee bit jealous ae. it seems like learning a new language, as soon as you know one instrument it makes it easier to learn others, sadly i never got that first one going!

now thats what you called devoted!

hey san p, does this mean that it was you who made those chillums you had a while back? awesome stuff, if you could do a glassblowing apprenticeship i'm pretty sure that there is guaranteed nonstop work here in nz as soon as you know how to do it. there's a pretty high demand for beautiful smoking utensils! good thinking mr opportunist with the tvs, i'm sure you will have them coming out your ears in no time

and real singing! every time i hear a good singer in person it sends shivers over my whole body.

i dont know, maybe it is more concern about the genereal unrest coming up to 2012, i dont believe that the world is going to end but i think alot of idiots will think the world is going to end so they will do whatever the fuck the want becuase they think it wont matter anyway if we are all going to die. and i dont smoke ciggies, i quit on my first day of working in a cafe, knowing if i didnt stop them i never would! been almost 2 years now thank goodness. i dont know what the aliens thing is but they feature in my dreams about once a week. sometimes they are evil ones that spit acid, sometimes just fuckin creepy ones that stare blankly at me

when i was little i used to get cacti from the supermarket as my weekly treat instead of lollies. my parents always fed me 'hippy food' as i used to call it, but now i think that was a lovely alternative to crap!

lol what you should have told me and i would have got my dad to go to the supermarket and buy it haha!

at most rubbish dumps they will have a nick nack shop of stuff thats too good to chuck out, have a look in your phone book

lol quite possibly, but i think we are just the right sort of mental

Woah whats that weird monstrose looking thing in the white pot in the 'family' shot? I would leave the bridgesii pup where he is, as it will look really cool with a big arm growing out the side,. As for your possible grafting stock, remember that the fresher the growth is that you grafting on, the more likely it is to take, older woody cores are much more likely to dry and push your graftee up and off. I would suggest buying some small cacti from a shop and trying a couple of grafts before splashing out on an aztekium! I have never tried horizontal grafting - its seems tricky! but i would say your seedlings are too small at this stage to be grafting onto a trich, try get your hand on some pereskiopsis if possible good luck, your off to a great start

i dont know why, but i really like it

i have a pachanoi crest with a normal pup coming off the side, if it ever flowers i promise to send the seeds straight to Australia members!

neat bonsais what part of nz did you used to live in?

shit i never realised Oz was missing out on the pachanoi crests, we have plenty of them in nz - they all seem to be from cuttings though

awesome!!

hi i have a few cacti seeds i am going to be putting down in the next couple weeks, but thought i should put the word out and see if anyone is keen on a wee swap before the spring sowing begins, the more diversity the better! i have.. sso1 x soo2 sso2 x bridgesii T. scopulicolus x t. pachanoi T. scopulicolus x bridgesii T. spachianus T. cuzcoensis (seed grown) x T. bridgesii v. Psycho0 T. pachanoi (seed grown Ecuadorian) x T. bridgesii v "N1" T. "party mix" - could be anything, bee polinated in a garden with many trich varieties Lw Texansis Ariocarpus Trigonus Turbinacarpus schmiedickeanus

Hahaha. Well I think nice weather is always a contributing factor, nice weather makes happy people and happy people are often horny people.

good start bro! i really like the wee one in the blue pot on the left in the first picture

Wow, what a lovely set up, you sure have a little slice of heaven right there!

i used to live with a guy who had a dogo x red nose pitbull she was a teddy bear though, all breeds have potential to be psycho or lovely, depends on their upbringing. i would go for a blue heeler or something trippy like that

I was just thinking about this this morning, although the majority of society is seemingly content with talking shit, going to the footy, drinking piss and flirting, and on the surface appear to be happy, really they are shit scared of the world they are living in and they are too in as much pain and sorrow. But they don't want to accept that life can be really hard and they aren't coping, so they put up walls of fake fulfillment and continuously try to trick themselves into believing that they are happily living 'the good life'. The difference between yourself and them is that you have taken the time to look at the conundrum we are all in and in that you show your strength, you have turned around the face the beast and to accept the world, for that i give you my full respect. I also really agree on the get a cat comment, my cat brings so much joy into my life i wouldn't be the same without her. Animals love without judgment, and so do plants, start there and work your way up, there are many people in the world we just need to reach out to each other. Depression is a hazard of the times we live in, but do not let it limit your view of your self, our thoughts and lives are in a constant state of flux, you can and if you want to, will move forward from this.