Some advice

I went to the local nursery to acquire some plants for around the house. I like to have a few pots of flowers around and my windowboxes are generally overflowing with flowers. I'm not sure why; I guess I like the colors or something.

Anyway, I am walking around the nursery, calculating what I needed and I came to the realization that this little outing would cost me somewhere in the neighborhood of three to four hundred dollars.

I looked in the cart. Probably $100 worth of stuff in there, but that was still more than I was willing to spend and it wouldn't have been nearly enough to finish the job I had in mind.

I pushed the cart between a couple of large planters and decided to scrap the project.

On the way home I pondered the situation. Too late to start stuff from seed. I finally resigned myself to the fact that my household would be devoid of color for the summer. At that precise moment, and I am not making this up, the clouds parted and the sun broke through and illuminated the area before me. A cemetery. A big one. With more friggin flowers than you could shake a stick at.

I pulled my truck through the gate and had a look around. The place was empty. I started loading pot after pot into my truck. I bet I have thirty of them. Some of them I will divide and transfer to smaller containers and others I will attach wires to and make hanging baskets.

Am I the first one to come up with this idea?

I'm going back for another load tomorrow. If any of you have cemeteries nearby I suggest you do the same.

Eventually the flowers will run out.

















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