Do you remember back in the Sixties and part of the Seventies, when you and your two older sisters and your two older cousins would enter a month-long state of frothing mania beginning on or around each December first? No, wait, sorry, that was me. Anyway, when we were kids, Christmas was a time of […]
Tag: Christmas
A plant for all seasons
This little cutie-pie is what we used to call a Christmas cactus. The flowers are lovely, and it doesn’t have a sharp edge anywhere. We had one of these when I was growing up. As the name implies, it was supposed to bloom at Christmas, but ours preferred the springtime. We took to laughingly calling […]