Broom Hilda by Russell Myers for February 24, 2020

No,Irwin there is no bright side. Ouch !

Irwin is a ray of hairy sunshine!

I should say that the dark side far outweighs the bright side.

Some advice, Broomie…some questions are better left unanswered!

She thought a porcupine was something like a pineapple?

Cactus has a sharp smell, to it!

Looks like my calf after meeting a cholla cactus in the Sonoran desert.

…and those prickly needles do HURT!

Cactus do flower, but with Bloom’s proboscis it was inevitable. I see where you can sometimes use duct tape to pull them out. But sometimes they have to be cut out.

Many many years ago, I was around 12 and was at a botanical garden in Arizona. It was like a winding boardwalk through a bunch of native plants. There was a rambunctious child of 3 or 4, acting like a brat, running around, causing mayhem, etc. I came around the corner, and here’s the dad, sitting on a bench, with the kid over his knee, pulling cactus quills out of his butt! Maybe he should have been put across his knee sooner!

Broomie got needled again.

Shouldn’t the pointy part of the cactus needle be in her nose?

Oh, quit needling Broomie!

Snort! Broomie can’t help it if she has a prickly pear for a schnoz….

Big OUCH!!!