Christmas in February

I've had a Christmas cactus in the library since the first holiday after we moved in, 2005. It had blooms on it that year and none at all since then. This month, it has started blooming and it looks fabulous!! We gently refer to it as developmentally delayed. I am just happy that it is flowering at all. People think I have a green thumb because there are lots of plants in the library, and every so often a new one appears on a bookshelf tucked in among the natives. When people ask, I tell them that the plants thrive on neglect; if I started paying attention to them, they'd probably die. That's not totally true, but pretty close.