This past Thursday, Patti and I made our Summer 2026 visit over to our local Home Depot to pick out our Summer 2026 Flowers.
It's like Home to us!
Gee Dad! Thanks! /s/ Your Home Depot.
Into the back of our truck our flowers go, safe in their box!
Patti and I have so very many memories of the, not years, but several decades when, without fail, Patti lovingly planted and thoroughly enjoyed "Her Summer Flowers" here at our Condo in Anchorage, Alaska.
Then in the Summer of 2022, for several good reasons, Patti made the decision in late May to NOT plant flowers.
Then I had a dream. A dream that I could NOT forget. A dream that was so real that I actually thought it WAS real.
A dream where I bought and I planted Patti's Summer 2022 Flowers.
When I arose from the dream , I said to myself, "THAT does it. I am going to buy, if nothing more, one small plant and I myself will plant my one small plant into one of Patti's planter boxes.
Patti WILL HAVE summer flowers the Summer of 2022!"
Just in case you are interested, you can read about our Summer of 2022 Flowers by clicking onto the below link.
https://bobbacaps.blogspot.com/2022/07/jul-28-22-pattis-flowers-summer-2022.html
Sadly, and neither Patti nor myself can remember why, but we did not have Summer Flowers in 2023. Oh but last year, the Summer of 2024, we planted flowers and showed and wrote about them in four (4) individual Posts.
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Last Friday, on July the 4th, 2025, together Patti and I visited our local Home Depot Store and Patti very carefully and lovingly selected the flowers she wanted us to have this summer.
Off we headed home to our Condo to continue our process.
We will see you all in Part 2.
A very happy Patti and Cap
Traditionally, going back farther than either of us can accurately remember, each and every summer, Patti has planted outdoor flower boxes.
"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, July the 27th, 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. Saturday I came home with eight (8) and yesterday two (2) more flower assortments because we wanted at least three plants in each of three 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.
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.
Here Porch are your "Flower treasures."
Cap and Patti
A little over one year ago, June the 21st, 2021, we signed off on our post titled : PATTI'S FLOWERS .. SUMMER 2021 .. with the following words:
"It gives me a tug of my heart to realize, that at our ages, neither of us know for sure what next Summer will bring us."
At this juncture, a little over a full year has passed and, for better or for worse, having now experienced the covid-19 virus two times, we are still here.
The two of us contacted the Covid-19 virus for the second time during two long airline flights on May 13-14, 2022. Complete with a seven hour visit to a Detroit area Emergency Room, this Covid episode has really taken its toll!
As a result thereof (long term fatigue, lack of stamina, and other lasting symptoms) Patti (more or less) made the decision in late May to NOT plant flowers this summer of 2022. To say the least, the way that Patti traditionally does her summer flowers, is quite a process. And honestly, Patti was just not up to planting summer flowers this year.
This past Monday evening / Tuesday morning, I had a dream. A dream that I could NOT get out of. A dream that was so real that I actually thought it WAS real.
In my dream, I had purchased a very, very, small tree. A teeny weenie small little tree (say 18-inches long) with its boughs or branches pressed down flat against its trunk so it was really a cylindrically shaped combination of its truck and branches.
As I took it home, it began to grow! By the time I got it home, it had grown to be 5 feet tall!
So I decided to dig a hole in the ground and push it down into the hole because it simply would not fit into a mere flower planting box.
And??
When I awoke from my dream, I actually got up and went out to our back yard to see my newly planted tree!
OH My, OH My, it was only a dream!
And??
I said to myself, "THAT does it. I am going to buy, if nothing more, one small plant and I myself will plant it into one of Patti's planter boxes.
Patti WILL HAVE some summer flowers this summer!"
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And now (Thank You Mister Paul Harvey) ..
THE REST OF THE PETUNIA STORY
When Patti awoke, after breakfast, after explaining my dream and the fact that I would do all of the work, without one whimper of opposition, out and off Patti and I went to Home Depot and Walmart to purchase ME a small plant.
And??
Patti got involved in finding me MY plant. We ended up going to two Home Depot Stores as well as our local Walmart.
