I love flowers! I get excited to plant them, to watch them grow, to see how beautiful they are. I love them. Last fall, I planted Pink Tulip and Purple Hyacinth bulbs alternating around all three trees in our front yard. I have been watching them slowly come up this year, knowing that the first year it takes a little longer to bloom, I have been excited to see their progress.
Today, while at work, I got a call from Colby asking "you didn't plant anything around our trees? did you?"
Me- "YES! I planted Tulips, why?".
I then hear Colby tell my neighbor in a laughing tone...."yeah, she said she planted tulips, they were tulips". Then he says to me "I might have pulled up a few, thinking they were weeds..."
Me-" WHAT!? are you kidding me?".
Colby- "No, I will put them back in the ground though, I asked Rachel(neighbor)what she thought it was, and she said she thought it was a tulip".
I had to go to work, so we continuted our discussion when I came home to see this.....
He pulled the buds of the flower right off...
does this really look like a weed?
The "weed" carnage.
As soon as I came home, I could see the damage...It looked as if he took a weed whacker to them
Me- "How could you have thought they were weeds, you knew I planted them last fall".
Colby- "I don't remember you planing anything."
Me- "Yes, you do, you were working on the Jeep, and I had to ask you to watch Devon a little while so I could finish planting them."
Colby-(giggling)"Oh, now that you mention it , I do remember. I was thinking to myself 'why are these weeds in a circle around all the trees' ".
Me- "Yeah, because I planted them, weeds don't just grow evenly spaced around all trees."
Colby- "Well, I put them back in the ground, they might not bloom this year though, maybe next year" Me- "Yeah, I know!"
Colby- "I don't remember you planing anything."
Me- "Yes, you do, you were working on the Jeep, and I had to ask you to watch Devon a little while so I could finish planting them."
Colby-(giggling)"Oh, now that you mention it , I do remember. I was thinking to myself 'why are these weeds in a circle around all the trees' ".
Me- "Yeah, because I planted them, weeds don't just grow evenly spaced around all trees."
Colby- "Well, I put them back in the ground, they might not bloom this year though, maybe next year" Me- "Yeah, I know!"
While I admit that this event is a little humorous, OK quite a bit humorous. Colby is still in the dog house for a couple of key reasons:
1. He watched me plant those last fall.
2. I pointed out their progress to him on Wednesday evening...to which he replied "yeah, uh-huh".
3. Even though he thought it odd, that "leafy weeds" were growing around all of our trees...he still pulled first and asked later
2 comments:
Colby....go to the store and buy your girl some flowers! Preferably tulips!!!
Wow, I hope he will remember the tulips for the next lawn care maintance day. I would have been so mad!
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