Right on time for botanical season's greetings.Merry Christmas Eve!
* I am well aware that the plural of "cactus" is "cacti," but that just looks and sounds so pretentious, I can't make myself use it.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Living Up to Its Name
I just think it's nifty that Christmas cactuses* bloom so obligingly at, you know, Christmas every year. Just like the name promises. It's just so . . . reassuring.
Right on time for botanical season's greetings.
* I am well aware that the plural of "cactus" is "cacti," but that just looks and sounds so pretentious, I can't make myself use it.
Right on time for botanical season's greetings.* I am well aware that the plural of "cactus" is "cacti," but that just looks and sounds so pretentious, I can't make myself use it.
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Merry Christmas from Las Vegas! LA&A Railroad
Aww...that brings back many fond memories of my grandmother's Christmas catuses. I bet she had 20 and they bloomed every year. So pretty!
Phoo-D, that's exactly what I was going to say! After she passed away, a bunch of us grandkids took cuttings from them, but in keeping with my abilities (or lack thereof), I promptly killed mine. My two older sisters still have theirs going, though.
One of ours is blooming away, but one did its thing in November. I guess it thinks it's a thanksgiving cactus.
We have a Thanksgiving cactus this year as well :-)
What kind of word verification is "coinedop"? Too easy.
Anyhoo....I killed my christmas cactus a few years ago and decided not to subject any others to my murderous ways.
==lennie==
you're lucky. i never could get mine to bloom. merry christmas.
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night's sleep! Or something like that.
Firstly, I would like to say that my stupid Christmas cactus has halted all blooming and begun to yellow. It's annoying.
Secondly, I have a funny story about a boy we overheard in the garden department of Home Depot telling his mom that he got, "stinged by cactuses" only to have her correct him by saying, "No, Billy, that's STUNG by cactuses."
At which point Bubba and I looked at each other, word nerds that we are, and began to howl with rude and uproarious laughter while pointing sort of inconspicuously at the rubes.
So, Kris, please - I beg you to carry on your typically close attention to grammatical detail by using the plural form of cactus, cacti.
And that is all the A/R bitching I'll do today.
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