Many people consider “The Twelve Days of Christmas" to be a fun, non-religious song celebrating the Christmas season. The song tells of 12 gifts -- one given each day to someone’s true love throughout ...

Partridges live in Eastern Washington, the nation’s No. 1 pear producer. Even so, you will probably never see a partridge in a pear tree. How could that be? After all, the repetitive first line of the ...

A partridge in a pear tree. On the second day of Christmas, my true love sent to me ... European goldfinches, European turtle dove, finches and greenfinch feed on seeds in a snow covered garden, after ...

Partridge prices were flat this year, but the cost of pear trees jumped more than 25%. PNC bank has run the numbers on all 12 days of Christmas — as it calculates its annual Holiday Price Index.