Wheels

I have wheels! I have a new scooter, a nice one. Not the clunky kind they have in grocery stores, but one with plenty of speed, and nice wheels that can go over bumps. I wanted a silver one, and I would have taken a blue one, but I ended up with a bright red one, which is actually pretty fun. It is a three-wheeler, so it turns in a small space. It occupies our space in the parking garage where my Ferrari used to be. :P

I can get to the vegetable market or the plant store in no time. That might be a bad idea. Do you know how many kinds of succulents they are selling? I want one of each! I managed to limit myself to only five, one of which is a Haworthia, with no zebra stripes and no spikes of any kind. The other ones have no names, poor things, so I will have to name them. That will take some thinking. What do you name a plant that has very fat, pointed leaves? Tophy? Zolla? I guess I'll have to browse through lots of pictures of succulents and see if I can find their real names. I think one of them is a Cheiridopsis.

I might name the silver one Sylvia, but that reminds me too much of a cat we had that caused us a lot of trouble. On the other hand, "Who is Sylvia, what is she, that all our swains commend her?" Seems like my mother showed me that poem when I was quite small. In light of that poem, it's not a bad name. But I need something more original.

Throughout the summer I will be taking various routes to various places to see where my scooter will go. Some places have no ramps onto/off the sidewalks. Driving in the street is bad during rush-hour. Places where I used to walk often had stairs. Sometimes there are ramps beside the stairs, but they're pretty steep.

Besides my five succulents, I picked up three jade leaves off the floor of the nursery. If I'm lucky, they'll sprout roots. I don't know why they sometimes do and sometimes don't.

Besides succulents, I broke a stem off a Solanum bush and stuck it in water, and now it has lots of roots. I didn't know it would be that easy, or I would have chosen a Solanum with better flowers. But my purpose is not really flowers, but greenery. Next best thing to a cat.