The answer is: 14

Question: what is the number of vehicles on Bob's property? Pictures later.
I think it is around 107 now, tomorrow it should be 110. That's warm.

With Bob and Debbie's help I decided to take cactus starts/seeds back to my staff as souvenirs. For those who are interested we will try to grow cactus gardens in the windows at work. Meanwhile - who knew that the great big Saguaros (the big cactus with arms that live to be so old) put out seeds and that is how little Saguaros are made! I didn't know that. Luckily I am here at the time that the Saguaros are putting out their seed pods. We were busy trying to get to them before the birds did! Debbie and I are in front of one of the big ones in their yard below. We scrambled around the base of the cactus to pick up the seed pods.

Below is a picture of the seed pods when they are way up there on the top of the Saguaro! I missed the blooming, though. They bloomed first then put out a seed pod apparently. I imagine it was very pretty.

Those great big cactus come out of these itty bitty seeds - they are about like a poppy seed!

The next cactus's (cacti? cactus?) we decided to harvest are below - the one in front is called a 'paper' cactus - don't know it's real name. The one in back is colloquially called a 'dog turd' cactus (don't know it's real name, either!). We picked these because they don't grow from seed - they grow by putting out new limbs or buds and you just put these in soil and they put down roots. My theory is that this will be more successful but we will see!

Paper cactus bud below

And guess which one this is!

A picture of Debbie's house - The Gecko's Grotto!

Debbie's view from her front porch - where we are not sitting in the 107 degree heat!

A desert 'lawn'. No mowing needed!

A home for another kind of family! A comfy and cozy home in the Saguaro for a woodpecker couple and their young family. A birdie condo! Nicely shaded in the mesquite tree. Now I'm home sick!