The bills in my collection. If when I was a teenager I started collecting bills, as an adult I would have bills and coins. But it was only when I became an older adult that I began to realize that I had a good hobby, It's when I started to look for information on the coins and bills I had collected for so long. The things I looked for where the basics; the countries where they come from and the year it was manufactured, and I kept the data on my little agenda. At some point…
My aromatic plants. I have been a nature lover for many years, in my garden I plant many plants and among so many that of them are aromatic plants. My favorite aromatic plants are basil, rosemary and cilantro. Basil: My basil plants are the easiest ones to plant, transplant, and harvest. I can get a new plant from a stem of the mother plant. A stem is cut and then placed in soil with abundant organic compost and in 15 days there will be a new plant. These are plants that are…
My student days. In this city many disastrous events happened. Let me tell you that the city of Mérida is a charming city, it’s a city of students and I will tell you why. The state of Mérida is located in the center of the Venezuelan Andean mountain range, 1600mt above sea level. Then there is the city of Merida which is located in a lower place, inside a depression. The city has a temperature that goes from 18 ° to 24 °, of course if you go up to the peaks by cable car you…
Strolling through my garden. I was walking among my plants since I spent a long time without seeing them. Not because I didn't want to, it was because I couldn't. And this is how I found them. This is my *Philodendron Monstera Adansonii*. It's a climbing plant, with a green stem and leaves. The leaves have a peculiarity, they are leaves with holes. This plant is semi-shady, it does not tolerate direct sun because it burns the leaves. In addition, its soil must always be…
The problem with water! The water problem in many countries is terrible, especially in countries where they do not have rivers or one of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world. Venezuela is fortunate to have the *Simon Bolivar* hydroelectric plant, one of the largest in the world, but the inhabitants of this country have to live in the terrible situation of not having this vital liquid flow on their homes and neighboorhoods for months or weeks. However, my son and I…
Thanks for your comments! I like to write, once I started I quickly realized that more and more things to write come to my mind. I also like to interact with people who make good comments. Many of the writers I saw here just want users to subscribe to them and then they don't make any more comments, but that doesn't matter to me, I keep writing and commenting. I don't see many of the users that I found when I was invited to this platform anymore. Even the person who invited…
Do you know the "tuna"? Its scientific name is the *Nopal* or *Chumbera,* depending on the populace. Its initial leaves are strengthened to support the next ones that join and make their long branches. They make it so that the initial penca can get a cylindrical shape. Sharp 5 cm long spines develop on each stalk. These stalks are widely used in Mexican culinary art, there they use them in different ways like stews, salads, soups and others... Flowers develop at the upper…
Recycle and plant Many of my plants are planted in plastic containers. Most of them are chopped at the height of the plant that I am going to sow needs, with this I manage to reduce the garbage that I have to throw away. I managed to recycle many soft drink containers, water, juice, and oil and vinegar containers I make a cut with scissors and with a knife, then I open the holes below the container to drain the water that I'll place in our artisan pot. Once the pot is ready,…
The ladybugs in my garden. One of the insects that I like the most in the garden are ladybugs, they are beautiful insects that help control harmful insect pests on our plants. When I see them on one of my plants, they are signs that that plant has a plague. In the time that these ladybugs have been coming to my garden, I have been able to take photos of three species. But the photos I took of the third ladybug got lost in the files of another computer. The first ladybug is…
Mean People. Evil has always existed and in these times I think it is more accentuated than before. People want everything for themselves, very rarely do we find people who want to share what they have. Evil expresses itself in different forms, people envy what you have, or simply envy the way you are. In these moments, people do their evil through false comments about you, about where or how you work. They purposely give the wrong information about other people, just so…
A land turtle. We have a new pet at home. Since our turtle disappeared, the same lady who gave us *Tronkín* now gave this other one to my son. This one different, this specimen has a different shell, this little girl eats a lot more than Treetrunks. I think it's older than her. She eats much more greedily. She is gluttonous, and again this is a female turtle, you can tell by the shape of its shell; The female has it flat and the male has it concave. These turtles are very…
Spooky stories of my country. Long ago I read a story about roads, but I really don't remember where I read it and I don't even remember where this story took place. The truth is that somewhere in my beloved country a taxi driver, of those who travel the roads at night, decided to drive at night because it was much better to drive in the moonlight than in the sunlight. At night there was less traffic, as well as more passengers who really wanted to take a taxi and not just…
Small cacti!. I really like planting cacti; these that I have here are small cactus children that I planted months ago. When the cacti were already of a good size to plant, I transplanted them into these plastic pots that I recycled myself. I cut plastic containers of soft drinks, water bottles and others... I removed the bottom part, just to serve as a pot... and it’s ready to put a small plant inside. Graptoveria Fenix: This is a son of the Graptoveria Fenix. It’s a…
Something about big bones! I've wanted to write something like this for a long time, I always hear this phrase *"I'm not fat, I just have big bones."* For ordinary people this is definitely true but let me clarify on the medical part, it's also true. Now, there are physical differences between the bones of obese and thin people, differences that can be seen through the naked eye. You can notice how the bones of the legs of obese people are deformed; you can also notice it in…
My beautiful Bromeliad. This here is a Bromeliad. Its scientific name is “aechmea fasciata” This is plant comes from Brazil and it is an epiphytic plant, that means that it grows on the trunks and trees of the mountains. In this case it's a plant that was sown in a pot. It tolerates sunlight but can be grown indoors. It has to be done carefully though, this one got some of its leaves burn from exposure. The plant itself doesn’t need a lot of soil, so if you want to put one…
Legends of my country: the legend of "El horcón." They say that it was a day of torrential rain, a good fire was lit and a man who had more than several years of life used that occasion, while sitting under a *horcon* (a tree from which the branches were cut, leaving three "cubits" cut off) and in the presence of many people, to tell a story that had apparently happened many years ago. He started by saying that it was a love story which did not have a good ending. He asked…
One about butterflies! There is a plant in my garden, I don't know its name. She bears some beautiful yellow flowers. This plant attracts butterflies, they get on the leaves, then they fly away and land on another leaf then it flies and does it again. At first I didn't know why they do that but now I know. Do you know what this butterfly is doing on my plant? It's laying its eggs on all these leaves. In a few days this plant will be full of the black caterpillars of this…
Delosperma Echinatum, how succulent! This is a succulent that belongs to the aizoaceae family. Its originally from South Africa. It's a perennial succulent, it grows for as long as it remains with the ideal conditions. It grows as a shrub with erect stems, highly branched and disorderly. It's usually green like a very leafy bush and it can measure up to 40 cm in height. The stems and leaves are covered with villi that are not spiny. Their leaves, if they receive enough…
The Spirits. I don't know how to explain or speak of spirit. Lately I've been listening to people talk about ethereal shapes, about the spirits that appear around those people whom they were close in life. I have many opinions about how they, our loved ones, communicate with us. Many strange things happen in our lives that we cannot explain. Sometimes we feel the presence of something... that does not disturb us in the least. That feeling of having a close presence, we feel…
Legends of my country: "The Sierra Nevada" In Venezuela we have in the mountain range of the Andes the *Sierra Nevada* national park. From there you can see the 5 peaks that form it. Legend has it that the *India Caribay* existed at that time, she was a woman of one of the prevailing tribes, the *Mirripuyes* , and she was considered the daughter of the sun and the moon. Legend has it that her voice was as beautiful as none in the world and she was a lover of nature. When she…
Stories of my country: "Lieutenant Pedro Camejo" Ever since I started studying in high school and received history classes from my chemistry teacher, I began to want to know more about the stories he talked about. Yes, my chemistry teacher knew a lot about the heroes of my country, and when he finished the subject of his class, he began to gather with his students. I loved when he talked about the heroes of the country, but because of the way he told them, not the way…
A fairy cactus. Cactus Acanthocereus Tetragonus: It belongs to the cactaceae family and is native to Central America. Its common name is Fairy Castle, due to the way it arranges its branches. It's my new acquisition. I have grown this cactus before but it didn't turn out well. It's a slow-growing cactus and does not exceed one meter in height. Its stem is light green. It grows in the form of a column, where its highest branch is located in the center, and the smallest ones…
The decadence. Venezuela is mired in a series of shortages of all kinds. I don't know which shortage is more disastrous than the other; problems with public telephone networks, problems with the water supply through the urban aqueduct, electrical problems... it comes and goes the whole day as many times as it pleases. There's also the problem with the supply of gas, not to mention the supply of gasoline. I don't even know how we are living. At present, the gasoline…
Flowers of Voburnensis. The flower of my Mammillaria Voburnensis: It's a cactus whose body is columnar and globose. It's not very tall. it grows to 20 cm in height. The adult plants are dark green in color and have many children around them, forming numerous and stacked groups. This cactus is blooming for the first time. He has been with me for a long time and I have taken small children from this cactus and reproduced them, but he never gave me flowers, until now. They have…
Do you know him? Kalanchoes: It belongs to the Crassulaceae family. Its scientific name is gastonis-bonnieri. And Its common name is Oreja de Burro, among other names, because of the way it arranges its leaves, drooping like a donkey's ears. They are of African origin. Its a shrubby and invasive plant And its height can reach 60cm. Its leaves are pulpy light green and gray. They are covered by a white powder. With erect stem and leaves on the sides of the stem. They are wavy…
Good memories I remember it was quite an odyssey when I decided to study nursing but everything happened long before… when I was a 10-year-old girl my older brother gave me a book about the history of **Florence Nightingale**. Reading this book greatly influenced my decision to be a nurse. I had no family members to influence me to take a certain college degree. So reading how this woman from an early age had so much compassion and pity for those most in need, to the point…
Succulent Adromischus. It belongs to the Crassulaceae family and its species is Adromischus. Its origin is from Africa. It belongs to the Crassulaceae family and its species is Adromischus. Its origin is from Africa. I grew it for its beauty, because it fills the pot with its beautiful round light green leaves. It is not taller than 5cm tall. It spreads wide, around the mother plant. To reproduce it, separate a stem from its roots, or you can perfectly obtain a leaf and…
Lying. People come up with anything to get out of a sticky situation. These times you can be a teenager, a young adult or even an old man and not have the grace to tell the truth. It’s worth nothing to have been raised in families with a lot of power, or in families with very little productive capacity. The fact is that the power to lie is so strong that the ability to tell a truth was totally lost. We don’t make simple lies, whenever people think and create a convoluted…
Audacity. I like to see people who work by doing dangerous things. I recently saw a documentary about a man who travels to remote countries while looking for river monsters. This man looks for fish in many rivers of the world trying to find any fish never seen by him. But they are fish that most of the inhabitants of the population already know of, eat and know by their own names. By monster fish he means that they are fishes that he has never seen. What can I say about this…
Pets. These are our beloved pets, members of our family group. In our case, my son has a cat and a turtle at home. There are pets of all kinds. I know families who live in a single house with four separations. Each separation made a house different and independent from the others. But each of the four studio home owners has a dog, of different breeds even. In other words when counting everyone’s pet in that house, there are four dogs in total. Another family has a small…
Dolphins. They are playful animals, they walk in herds and they are familiar. They also talk to each other and help each other with their little children. They are spectacular creatures to be observed. They say that dolphins feel a certain kind of connection with humans. I read once that they seem to have had some kind of friendship with the legendary sea mermaids. So our bodily resemblance to mermaids is what makes them have this friendship today with humans. I once read…
Snake stories. In Italy there is a town named Cocullo, where they annually celebrate the festival of snakes. In that town there are some people who are in charge of looking for the snakes; these people are named “serparios”. They look for as many snakes as they can and on the day of the festival they are in charge of placing them in the image of a saint. The saint of the population is “San Domenico”, and his peculiar characteristic is a series of snakes around his neck and…
Things to come! New things are coming to my country. Stores and sites that were closed for a long time during this pandemic are opening; I hope people take care of themselves so that we can take care of all of us, though this gives me a lot to think about because during all of this pandemic I saw how people took this disease very happily. Schools, high schools and universities are still closed. Classes continue online, which is fine with me. Classes will have to be…
Unforgetable experience. When I was little, around 9 years of age, one day I thought of going for a walk with my brothers and neighbors, for a walk through the neighborhood where we lived. It was a Sunday afternoon. My dad was not very given to taking his family out for walks so I just asked him for permission to go with the neighbors and my two younger brothers and we left. We walked through the streets we knew and then went a little further. We walked a lot and when I…
A human error. 14 people died in a plane crash. It was its second flight from one city to another in the United States. A short flight, the second flight of the day and it was to Texas. But something went wrong; the plane destabilized, exploded in midair and plummeted until exploding again on the ground. Now came the inquiries, what, or who, is the reason behind this terrible accident? Several members of the specialized technical personnel are deployed, engineers,…
Garden Plants. I was in my garden, after being several weeks without seeing my plants, and I came across several pleasant surprises. There is a hot pepper plant! Several chili peppers are growing, they are long, thin and green. The plant still has flowers waiting to open, that means that I will have a lot of peppers for my family's dinner this Christmas. I am also surprised by this paprika plant. Only one of them is growing but it has several flowers as well so I topped it…
What do you do when there is pain on your back? What do you do when you feel pain? What do you do when you have pain? Do you go immediately and take a pain reliever or do you go to the doctor's office? What should be done in the first instance is to find out the cause of the pain and then proceed to calm it, which you will only know if you go to the doctor. If it’s a pain in the back that is reflected in the abdominal area you should find out where specifically the pain is,…
The most intelligent species. Scientists say that sharks do not attack humans, that when they bite it us it’s because they want to know what kind of meat we are. But you can see more and more videos about shark attacks on humans, even on beaches where it was thought impossible. On the soft sands of the beaches of Cancún in Mexico, many tourists go to these soft sands during their vacation, but lately there are too many shark sightings roaming the shores of the beach. In…
Strange events She was talking about trivial topics with her son when she remembered an event at her university. She remembered that she had to study for a very important exam in one of those subjects that is important in the career she chose, but had some degree of difficulty. Many of her colleagues were also there, taking that same exam. Passing the exam was of the utmost importance as it was the last chance. If she did not succeed she would have to study the same subject…
A strange death! It was a strange thing. He was a family man, a father, had two daughters and his wife. The eldest daughter was 19 years old, her name was Rosina and his youngest daughter, Angela, was 7 years old. Everyone would believe that they were a happy family. At least that's what everyone saw in them. The father, Lorenzo, had a "funny" personality. Whenever there was a family gathering there was only laughter around him, tales and more fun all the time. He had every…
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