End of the Month Ouch

Made it through a month. Didn't post every day. Would like to get these up on a little more consistent basis instead of flooding you loyal readers with a dozen in a day or two. I find this photo a good end to the month of January because this month was both prickly and colorful. You can tell its been a mild winter when cacti looks this good in Kansas at the end of month of Jan. 

Picture my goals underneath this pile of prickly. That's kind of where I am right now. Everything is right there, just a little hard to obtain with drawing a little blood and enduring some discomfort. I know, boo fricken hoo. Don't cry for me Argentina. I got it under control.  

• We do not like the confiding, the intimate, the ingratiating, the hail-fellow-well-met, but prefer the unapproachable, the hard-bitten, the recalcitrant, the sinister, the malignant, the saturnine, the cross-grained and the cankered, and the howling wilderness to the amenities of civilization, the irascible to the affable, the prickly to the smooth.We have no damned fellow- feeling at all.
  
  -Grieve
    'The Dour Drinkers of Glasgow', in The American Mercury, Mar.