JUL 29, 24 .. PART 1 / 3 .. PATTI'S FLOWERS .. SUMMER 2024..

Traditionally, going back farther than I can accurately remember, each and every summer, Patti has planted outdoor flower boxes.

Then "life or old age" caught up with us. Back in the Summer of 2021, in our June the 21st, Post we ended with the below words.. 

"It gives us a tug of our hearts to realize, that at our ages, neither of us know for sure what the Summer of 2022 will bring us."

Then came the Summer of 2022. 

In early June of 2022. After returning from our trip back to Detroit, Michigan, during which we were in the E.R. with our third Covid-19 infection, Patti declared that she was NOT going to do flowers! 

In mid-July of 2022 I had an amazing dream. If you would care to refresh your memories of this dream, please click onto the below link. 

https://bobbacaps.blogspot.com/2022/07/jul-28-22-pattis-flowers-summer-2022.html

After I awoke from the dream, I said to myself, "THAT does it. I am going to plant, if nothing more, one small plant and I myself will plant it into one of Patti's planter boxes. Patti WILL HAVE some flowers this summer!"

And we most certainly did just that!

And Patti "Got the plant flowers fever." and Patti went with me, picked out her flowers, and Patti "Did the flowers!" while I watched and snapped photos and published the above Post.

Last Summer of 2023, we did not have any outdoor flower boxes. I don't recall our even discussing it. 

Two weeks ago, while Patti and I were "out and about", I casually asked Patti, as we were passing our local Home Depot, "Would you like to stop and get a few flowers."

Patti said, with a  bit of a sigh, "No."

Then I repeated my question, "Would you like to get some flowers while we are here at Walmart?"

"No." Patti would reply, again with a poignant sigh.

Last Saturday, I said to Patti: "I AM going to Home Depot and get some flowers!" 

Unlike back in July of 2022, Patti did not go with me.

Thanks to God and Our Good Lord who gave me first, Arlene last Saturday, and then Kellie yesterday at our local Home Depot. 

They picked flowers for me. They each gave me an enormous sale discount of $5 off each flower package (all of whom were crying and pleading "Pick me Dad. The season is over and we all will be thrown away Dad!").

Home I came with our treasures. Yesterday I came home with six (6) and today two (2) more flower assortments because we wanted three plants in two of the flower Planter Boxes.

And with Patti's encouragement "Away we began."

Let's begin at our local Home Depot and see how far we get here in what will be Part 1.

These are what Arlene and Kellie picked for us.

"On Sale" I got eight of them for $2 each out the door!

And home to our Condo I came with our "Flower treasures".

Our back Porch was just waiting for its "Flower treasures"!

(By the way, notice the "weed" hanging over the front edge of the one box on the right in the below photo.  Patti opted to let this weed continue to grow since it did give us one dose of something green and growing in one box.)

"Oh My Goodness Dad! It's been two years since I have had flowers Dad!"

See our "weed flower" sprouting out the front of its box?

Here Porch are your "Flower treasures."

And this will be "it" for Part 1 of our Summer 2024 Flowers.

Cap and Patti