Last week, at the very end of May there was a frost overnight here in Wisconsin. Since it had been warm during the day and I am not one to check the weather for the night, I didn’t find out about it until the next day. When I checked my garden most plants were OK. The basil did take a beating but is doing well now. However, two of the bell pepper plants didn’t make it.
It wasn’t until yesterday that I was able to go to the garden store and pick up two replacement plants. This is not the same place where I got the other plants and the plants were more expensive than the other place. Here I paid $1.85 for each plant instead of both. This was a quick stop at the store with my husband and kids waiting for me in the car. I had one plant in each hand and when I got in the car I put one of them on the roof to open do door.
Do you see where this is going? When I went to get the plants from the car to plant, one was nowhere to be found. Yes, I left it on the car roof and it flew away as we drove home. So that was the flop of the day yesterday: $1.85 on a plant that bit the dust two minutes after I paid for it.
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I’m laughing as I type this. Last spring, my hubby bought a ticket for geraniums from the local Rotary Club fundraiser. He went to the greenhouse to pick them up, and was going to also pick up a gift certificate for a gift for my parents.
He called me on his way home and I asked him what color the geraniums were… long pause…. then “Oh no!”
He’d left them on the roof of the car! At least he’d put the gift certificate in his pocket!
We wrote it off as a kind donation to the Rotary Club…
Hi Christina, that was NOT my smartest moment. I have a couple of worse ones that are pretty funny too but too embarrassing to share.