Last Sunday I wanted to go to Home Depot. There is one about two miles away from the apartment, however driving there is difficult and the parking lot is always chaotic. So, I suggested to Alejandro that we get some exercise and walk there. Actually, we walked to the nearest subway line, got off after two stops, and then walked the rest of the way, around a mile.
We immediately went to the gardening section. There was something there that I had seen on a previous trip that I needed.
I have a couple of cactus plants that needed transplanting. I had bought two decorative clay pots to replace the ugly plastic pots in which they came. However, I needed some potting soil for the transplanting. I had seen that Home Depot had small bags of soil especially for cacti and succulents. I picked up a bag, and a plant saucer for one of the cacti. Even though there were lots of houseplants there that were very tempting, that's all I bought.
I asked Alejandro if he wanted to return by subway, and he said "No". We walked the two miles back to the apartment.
Yesterday, I finally got around to transplanting the cacti.
The smaller one was given to me by Alejandro's sister last year for the Day of the Dead. It was decorated like a vampire. I posted a photo of it back then.
After the Day of the Dead, I carefully removed the decorations with tweezers. The cactus suffered no ill effects from my surgery, and if you compare the two photos, you see that it has grown quite a bit since then. I bought the larger cactus a few weeks ago at the Thursday "tianguis" (outdoor market) at the park where I do my exercising. There is a stall there that sells houseplants. I have my eye on a jade plant that I might buy next week if it is still there.
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