I see a great excuse to have pizza in bed 
I have one counter spot open, enough room for a cutting board and some plates! 
And the dining table is just for appearances. Like any self-respecting bachelor, I eat over the sink like a rat
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Hahaha… Mr Squid still does that. 20 years and I’ve been unable to retrain him 
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Update, these plant baby cutting have been eaten. By one or both of my kitties. Carnivorous plants eaten by carnivorous kitties. Sigh. They would have been fun to try to grow.
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Ah man! Kitties needed their greens 
Hopefully you will be able to try again at some point 
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Everyone back outside where they belong.
After a ton of searching - I found a local company that builds custom greenhouses, I had emailed them on Wednesday. I spoke to him late yesterday and he’s coming by tomorrow AM to look at my greenhouse. He said he should be able to salvage my existing greenhouse and install better material that can hold up to the extreme AZ weather.
And if he can’t, or it’s crazy expensive, I can go with the previous idea of tear down/build new.
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Awe …they all look so happy to be back in their home 
Good luck, hopefully you’ll be able to do inexpensive and quick fix 
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YouTube is a blessing, I’d check out stuff on there. I’m wondering if a kind of thick plastic, maybe like a plastic drop cloth, or similar, would work? Now I’m curious myself, even though I don’t have a green house of what could work. I’m glad the panels survived 
Question. So my house plants are doing well, YAY! But… My plants in my fishtank, not so much. I’m not home so I can’t snag a picture but OMG they look awful. I’m thinking about just tearing it apart, and restarting it because I honestly didn’t set it up to today’s standards. Plants in fish tanks, well that has changed A LOT since I had fish in the early 2000’s. Anyone have experience with this??
Unfortunately it wouldn’t. The weather here is a pretty unique thing to be up against, between the intense sun that plastics just disintegrate under, gnarly winds, and monsoon storms in summer.
I found a local custom greenhouse builder that builds theirs using polyethylene sheets, we’re going to give that a shot. Very similar to what I have now but much better at holding up to UV rays over time. Supposed to last for 10+ years, even in the desert. I went and saw his greenhouse in person, which has been there for 8 years, and the siding still looks brand new.
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is that the feelings wheel on your fridge?
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Good eye - it sure is. A parting gift from my previous therapist
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That’s good news! I hope it works for you.
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Everyones favorite fatty is firing up her first flower of the season. Every year it feels so early, but it’ll be 6-8 weeks til it actually blooms, and March is the first one every year in the 3 yrs I’ve had her. Gave her a good, thorough drink yesterday - first water in over 2 months 
La Gordita
And my first new plant in a few months. Random Walmart find –
Tarantula aloe. Some kind of aloe hybrid.
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Might remember my pachypodium brevicaule I got last yr as a present to myself after a great annual review at work. Bucket list plant, slow-growing, typically quite expensive. That one was, at $90 USD. I have a hard time justifying spending more than ~$25 on a plant. Then mealy bugs got into the roots and killed it.
This AM, I went to one of my usual haunts. Lo and behold, pachypodium bevicaule seedlings. I almost never see them for sale, period. Never saw them for sale at this nursery at any size, and have never seen seedlings for sale anywhere. My last one was at least several years along.
At an astonishingly cheap $8 USD, I am ready to be hurt again.
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Team PachyBrevi come on!!!
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This is such a good and hopeful picture. 🩷
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That’s one expensive radish
Let’s hope it grows into a turnip!
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