When my sister and I were growing up, we had these crazy neighbors whom we were very scared of.  It was an old couple with cranky dispositions and a backyard full of orchids.  I can remember them yelling at us for climbing over our own fence, riding our bikes on the sidewalk (evidently they wanted us to get run over), and for setting our sprinklers so that the overspray watered their precious flowers.

Our neighbors put a lot of effort into their orchids, that’s for sure.  If anyone ever was an expert on orchid flower care, it would be them!  Seriously, if you asked them about phalaenopsis orchid care or cattleya care, you’d probably get a full lecture on the subject.  They even experimented in creating their own hybrids.

Even though they still live next door to my parents today, they don’t seem to have changed much.  I often joke that they were old 20 years ago, so what does that make them now…?  They are still as cranky as ever, of course, although they don’t seem as scary now as they did when I was eight.

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