Do overs

Have you ever told your kid something because at the time it’s what you really think and then you talk to another Mom and you want a ‘do over’? Well that’s what happened to me yesterday. I was talking to another Mom who’s daughter went with William to Europe and I asked if she heard from her daughter at all? She then said that she heard from her so much since she left, and is excited every time she gets an email. So far she’s got 6 emails. Yea, 6.   Well….. I told William that no news is usually good news, and he shouldn’t take the time to worry about calling us while he’s in Europe or trying to email us. OK, this is where I want the ‘do over’. I think maybe one email would have been good, you know just to let us know how everything is going. But then Daryl reminded me that he is a boy, and usually girls are so much better at those kind of things. And even though this is a little stereotypical, he is right. And I DID say not to bother unless something is wrong. So this other Mom sent me her daughters emails and it sounds like they are having a good time. I’ll just have to wait until William gets home to find out how everything went.

I planted my hazelnut bush today. Man is the ground hard and dry. After I went to the other farm to get the sand shovel, I worked pretty hard to get the hole dug for the bush. I also planted a rose bush today and this didn’t go as well. When I picked it up at the nursery yesterday, the lady (crabby one) told me that it had a one year guarantee on it. I wasn’t sure what this meant, so she told me that for some reason if it didn’t grow back next year that she’d give me a new one and I just had to keep the receipt. So I said what was all in the guarantee? She said pretty much any reason, but if cows ate it or anything like that – it wouldn’t be covered. I laughed and said would anyone actually try to get a new one if their cows ate it, and she said that you’d be surprised just what people would do. OK, so today I got my hazelnut bush planted and was going to plant my new rose bush. But I couldn’t find it. I found the bucket that it was in the night before, but no plant was in sight. First I thought that I was in a Twilight Zone movie and someone was playing tricks, and I was walking around trying to see just what in the heck was going on. I was glad that no one drove by when I was trying to figure out what happened because I was just standing there with no idea at all.  Then I found it. You know where it was? It was in the COW PASTURE! The cows reached in between the fence and pulled the nice green parts of the flower bush into the pasture and ate almost 2/3 of it. The first thing I thought of was that, ‘it comes with a guarantee’.. but then the second thing that I thought of was that we laughed when we said that no one should ever even try to bring it back if the cows ate it.  Shoot! Maybe we shouldn’t have had that whole cow eating conversation. So it was still looking not too bad and I planted it anyway. But if I could get a  ‘do over’ on this , I would put the plant over by a shed. Far away from Rion and No Ears.