Granny! Please Please Please...EAT! Get a chicken leg from Robert and chew on it! Something, anything, a Peanut butter sandwich or cheese sandwich.
@BigBlueHen53 I attempted to do my own potting mix using our soil only I ran into a BIG problem with it that killed my Grande Champion Christmas Cactus 4 years ago. Turned out that there is some sort of fungus amongus in our soil that killed off all the roots on the cactus and two other plants that I transplanted into it. I won't try that again.
I did try to mix sand (we have a stream that runs through our property plus a big creek to our east so sand is no problem. Some of my plants are doing really well with the Miracle grow soil mixed with sand...just not that darned crown of thorns.