Interesting Fact Meme

[brin_bellway]

Tell me an interesting fact about yourself and I will reply with an interesting fact about myself that I think of when I read yours. It may be entirely related, or only related in the weirdest, broadest definitions.

Meme provided by journalmemes.

Comments

[redsixwing]

I keep office houseplants, which lots of people seem to think is some sort of magic. (The actual secret: set as minimal a schedule as possible for watering and messing with them, then stick to it.)

I do way more complex and interesting things, but also I like green spaces and growing things, and people get really focused on the houseplants.

[brin_bellway]

When I was little, my mom got two tiny cacti (one for each of us) as a kind of biology project.

It's been about two decades. We still have the cacti, now about half a foot tall, in our kitchen windowsill. One of them is beginning to grow an arm.

(We might someday have to bring them to her sister in Arizona, when they get too big for the windowsill.)

[redsixwing]

..cute. :D

o.0 Windowsill saguaro! That's quite a feat.

[brin_bellway]

I went and took a closer look (it's mostly been Mom's project lately, she was always more into houseplants), and they've actually grown more than that makes it sound. We have *four* cactus plantpots on the kitchen windowsills, each with several sprouts (though only one with anything that could be called an "arm"; the other sprouts are more separate than that).

(I think each tiny cactus plantpot originally had two tiny cacti in it, all of whom survived and ended up growing big enough to need their own pots.)