Lilies: Blackberry Lily, 0 by BamaBelle

BamaBelle wrote:
I used to work with a lady who was a die hard PETA member. She had her dogs on vegetarian diets and gave everyone at work heck for wearing leather shoes...but she liked me so I got away with wearing, not only leather shoes...but a leather mini skirt AND a fox fur coat that I ahd won in a sales contest at a previous job.

One day she walked into Walmart and saw that their live pet department was less than humane. She raised such a stink, the manager GAVE her all the fish and birds...which she then had to find homes for. Most of them were pretty sick. Walmart had been planning to close out their live animal department anyway, and she just happened to come along at the right time and raised enough stink about the sicjk animals that the maanger was more than happy to give them all to her...along with the tanks and cages they were all in. I think she had to buy fod for them, though.

I love scavenging plants. I'm always finding neat plants in the middle of nowhere (like the AFrican Parrot Galds and Dorothy Perkins Roses that I foudn growing in ditches ont he side of the road)...or sprouting in my yard. I found 4 Wishbone plants sprouting in my azaleas today. I'd have missed them except one of them was blooming. I've potted them up and hope they make a nice show down the road. If not, I'll be looking for some seeds next year.

I also found some seeds the other day on a sale rack for a plant call the Poor Man's Weather Glass. Most of the seeds ont he rack sold for almost $2 a pack. They had them marked 4 for $1...then, since the store was clsoing, everything was 40% off the price marked. I got the seeds for .15 a pack. I bought all the neat seeds I could find and just stocked up on them. I also found some medium sizd apple baskets that were marked 50 cents. Since I had been planning to do baskets for Christmas presents this year and these baskets would have cost at least $10 each, I made out like a bandit.