In the 4 days since I have repotted this, it is greening up an bit and has uncurled it leaves some. It has endured a day of rain. It is not a fleurentinorum, although I can easily see where the comparison could be made. I have been told one of the southern California's foremost aloe experts, Kelly Griffin, has not been able to identify it..........

I've seen this on a few cactus. Don't pot up just yet. Try to dry those dark areas out. The one on the right looks like the worse one. The others look fine. At least from what I can tell from the pics. Since they have some size to them they should just scab over. Keep them warm, dry, and in bright filtered light. In a couple of weeks those areas should be dried out;). Then you can plant. Worse comes to worse you just recut;).

I've been a member of GW for a long time and just noticed this forum. It sounds to me like your mom is doing ok. You might look into the medications she's on, if any. Some of them can cause a mental decline, like one did to my grandmother the last 20 years of her life. A lot of drugs deplete or interfere with nutrient uptake too, which can cause a lot of problems over time. 1 or 2 my mom is on block magnesium, which is a very important heart and muscle nutrient, among other things. There's a good book called "The Magnesium Miracle" that tells all that has been learned about its function in the body. It can be related to mental decline in some cases, maybe a lot for all I know. A lot of older people don't absorb nutrients as well and don't eat as much or maybe don't eat the right foods. I've been going through some difficult times with my mom. She has been in the hospital twice this winter. The first time was a result of a medication, one I had tried to get her off ever since she started it, a beta blocker. She's a worrier and at one dr. visit she was voicing her concerns over heart attacks and stroke and he said he could put her on that drug if it would make her feel better, but she really didn't need it at the time. I could've shot him! That drug has some side effects that just gave her more problems. So she was on that for 5 or so years and she gradually declined with the problems it gave her. She was kept in the hospital overnight for observation and in the evening she told the nurse that it was the time she always took her beta blocker. The nurse looked at the monitor and saw that her heart rate was low and told my mom she didn't want to give it to her with her heart rate already so low and she wanted to talk to the doctor about it. So she didn't get it that night, but they did give it to her the next morning. I went with her to her follow up appt. with her doctor and brought up that issue and he said he had noticed that and had decided to take her off it. Now if I could just get her to quit worrying about everything, she'd improve more. I've been telling her that her worrying so much is part of the cause of her bp problem and she needs to just let it go, that if somethings going to happen, it will and worrying about won't change that. Last weeks hospital trip was due to her bp going up too high and the diagnoses was anxiety,so she seems to be trying harder to not worry. She talks to me about everybodies ailments, even people I don't know and she needs to focus on more positive things, but it's hard since most people she knows are getting up there in age and having a lot of problems. Anyone else have that to deal with? My health is down because of drained adrenals and I can't take a lot of stress myself. Last weeks hospital run about did me in. I hijacked this thread. Sorry! I hope you're mom is ok. You're doing a great job with her!

If it is 61 minutes interval, that eliminates nearby scanning radar (some small boats have that). Audio engineers can tell you that sometimes you can elinmate some interferences by reversing the electric power plug. Obviously you cannot do that with a grounded plug. If someone has a USB sound adapter ($4.00 ebay). You can plug it in your computer and find out if the problenm is the computer's sound card or there is another problem with the computer. There is agood possiblity that the built-in sound card is the problem, a leaky capacitor is a possiblity. CD DVD machines also plug into the sound inputs on the sound card. You can try unplugging the power connection to the CD and DVD and see if that would stop the beep sound. I don't think so, but worth a try. dcarch