A couple of weeks ago early one Sunday morning, my wife Pat decided it was time to go buy flowers so she could plant them whenever she was ready.
My role is helping to go and pick up the flowers, the potting soil and whatever else she thinks she needs.
I mentioned picking up the flowers, not picking them out. She’s the flower expert. I possess little knowledge of the different types of flowers.
She knows all about the different plants and flowers she puts in the ground and in the pots. Pat knows if they are heat tolerant or not, and all that sort of thing.
My job is to push the cart, keep up with her so I can load the flowers and plants into it, get the potting soil and place it in the cart. Once we’d paid for all this, I headed out and place all this stuff in the car.
We decided we’d go to out for breakfast since it was the morning after our birthdays and the place she likes to buy her flowers and plants all that is needed to go with them wouldn’t be as busy as would Saturday. She was right.
Once we had everything we headed back to the house.
Once we got back to the house, I unloaded them and put everything wherever she wanted for then.
Then we got right after it, with her beginning to plant and I bringing to her whatever she needed.
As she was done selecting her flowers and plants, we decided we wouldn’t use the same color of mulch we had the previous year. It was too dark, she believed, and honestly I agreed. It really was.
But where we purchased the flowers and plants didn’t have or wasn’t carrying the lighter colored much. So, we decided to put off getting the mulch and we would look for it later.
Of course, she didn’t explain to me what looking for it later meant.
Later that afternoon she mentioned when we were finished with the flower planting and we headed to this other store, we could just look for it at that time.
So I knew then my job wasn’t quite finished either.
I went and did something else. She needs no help in the planting itself. In fact, that is off limits for me and I just soon it be.
About the only other thing needed, was to bring her more potting soil, and later to place a pot that had a plant in it to a spot on the patio.
Then I gathered up the tools she had needed, put them up where they belong, and threw away the empty sacks of potting soil.
She handles the watering. We were finished for that day. Not with everything that needed to be done, just for that day!