Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Happy St. Barbara's Day!

According to the Detroit Free Press, today is Saint Barbara's Day, a day "when a young woman can plant a twig in water and if it blooms by Christmas, expect to be married within a year". Being the smokin' hot single women we are, Martha and I quickly searched the tree in our front lawn for suitable twigs:

(mine is the one on the right)

Saint Barbara, as it turns out, has quite a story associated with her. Check out one version here. She's also the patron saint of artillerymen. Boom!

2 comments:

Lisa Block said...

Any Luck?

Anonymous said...

yeah, I'm curious too, any greens sprouting from your stick?