A very good friend and his fiancé gave me a present this Christmas before heading off to visit family. It happens to be a lucky bamboo plant submerged in a complete biosphere. There are two frogs and a snail in the plant and the plant itself is submerged in water and rocks.
Please meet my new friends, Algernon and Duffy, and Dog.
I have always like lucky bamboo anyway, but I have never received it as a gift.
I plucked this from a website (Fastfengshui.com) about lucky Bamboo:
The Lucky Bamboo
Over the past few years “Lucky Bamboo” has become one of the most popular Feng Shui accessories on the market. If you don’t yet have a Lucky Bamboo plant, once your friends and family find out that you are interested in Feng Shui you’ll probably receive one as a gift someday soon. In fact, Lucky Bamboo is said to be luckiest when it is received as a gift. That doesn’t mean you can’t buy one for yourself if you want to, though; just think of it as a gift from you to your home or office…
Bamboo is a symbol of luck and success because of its rapid growth, strength and fortitude. In this newsletter issue’s article, Stephanie shares some things she has learned to ensure that your Lucky Bamboo continues to bring you good fortune for a very long time.
Apparently, the frogs feed off the bamboo, and their poop feeds the plant (technically a grass) and the plant puts oxygen in the water. The snail cleans up the Algae. It s a maintenance free system. Perfect for me.
I also had he hardest time deciding what to name the frogs and snail. It took me more than 24 hours. I didn’t want to be cliché like Kermit or make literary references like Romeo and Juliet. I must admit, I had no luck in picking out lucky names for my new, easy to maintain, family.
It came to while I was buying eggs and butter at the store today.
The two frogs names are ‘Algernon’ and ‘Duffy’, and the snail is named ‘Dog’.
Dog is Hidden somwhere, but here are Algernon and Duffy
I have no reason, it just simply felt right.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
