We had a street sale today. If we could have sold the answer to what this plant is, we might have actually made some money. 🙂
This plant is called a Red Hot Poker, Poker Plant, or Torch Lily. It’s pretty impressive and definitely stands out in the garden. Best yet, it’s a perennial, so it just keeps coming back every year.
Actually, we did profit slightly from the street sale. We sold $9 worth of junk and spent $3 at other people’s houses, so we’re up $6! Woo Hoo!
I saw this story on Craig’s site, and it intrigued me. We’re all constantly hearing about how Americans work more and give up vacation time. So when someone comes out with a study that seems to indicate the opposite, it warrants some attention. So I decided to read the study, all sixty-some pages of it…
This week’s Spam Special comes to us from Shadya Brewer, and seems to be a exceprt from The Hobbit… specially greedy, strong and wicked worm called Smaug. One day he flew up into the air and came south. The first we heard of it was a noise like a hurricane coming from the North, and…