My Bromiliad???

Here it is!!! My testament to may truly great gardening skills!! I've been trying to get one of these to bloom for about 20 years now. S'te was buying them for me for holidays and they were dying almost as fast as the stores could keep them in stock!! So, last spring when Rod was deployed and we went to irritate the Grandkids for so long - I stuck it outside under the Loquat Tree. I figured that the sprinklers wouldn't get it to much but it wouldn't die from lack of water either. So - anyhow, it was a single little plant and it now has 4 "babies" AND A BLOOM. That brown thing in the middle is a Loquat leaf - I guess I could've cleaned up my background a little - but I am soooooo excited!!

For S'te: I've been telling you that I got a "new" toy. Well - after the surgery and the heat and the next surgery and the stroller pushing hand is still sensitive (big time) and now Bastion is getting so big - I seldom got out of the house that we weren't all closed in the van. So Keith bought this for me!!! Isn't it adorable!!! Bastion loves his special seat and just grins and laughs the whole time. He really hates for it to stop. The other kids love it too. Keith and a neighbor designed and built the little seat for them. I don't know that it would hold ME but I'm not going to attempt it anyway. So I strap the kids in and we can stop and chat with whoever happens to be outside. It's a "snap" to load and unload them, it has headlights that work, and according to one of the other "gals" around her - we are quite the talk of the Village. We go over to the Compound every day and "change the moobies", stop at the playground. It is soooo much fun. And it doesn't use any gas at all. We've had to charge it once in the 3 weeks we've had it . .