Chris Erskine: Putting away or planting decorations
by Chris Erskine, Los Angeles Times
Jan 15, 2019
3 minutes
We tried to extend the potted poinsettias by replanting them in the front flowerbed, near the new mailbox my wife liked. Well, she never actually said she "liked" the mailbox. She just never said she didn't.
In a long marriage, that passes for gushing.
The little guy protested that poinsettias can be poisonous, which made me think that he's been reading his Shakespeare after all, because in one of his many stories, the Bard must've referred to poisonous poinsettias.
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