Estate Sale Jackpot

Two estate sales today, but one was about 40 miles away and the pictures didn't show anything great.  The other one also had nothing in the pics calling my name, but at 7 miles, was a lot closer.  There were some things in the pics that looked interesting, not in the "wanna buy it" way, but in a "that would be neat to see" way - a rock collection, including fossilized dino dung, for example.  And there were two gemstone bonsai that were absolutely gorgeous.  Out of my price range, but very nice to admire in person.

 This one is made of strings of some sort of gemstone beads.  It was gorgeous, and I can't imagine the time it took to make. 

But, I did hit the jackpot.  I found these:

Those are true old-fashioned Christmas cactus, Schlumbergera buckleyi, which are very hard to find.  The "Christmas cactus" sold in stores over the holidays are really Thanksgiving cactus (Schlumbergera truncata) - you can tell from the shape of the stems.  True Christmas cactus can be found online, if you want to pay dozens of dollars for a plant and hope it survives the shipping, or you may be lucky enough to know someone who'll share a cutting that you can root.  Or, you can accidentally find a pair of them at an estate sale.  One of these looks really good, the other one was in the cold garage and is not great, but should survive.