Friday, October 26, 2012

The clock is ticking...

Out of the generosity of others can come burdens.  Good ones...but taxing nonetheless.  This is the situation we were pleasantly in this week.  (Remember we just moved in last week). This week we were blessed with some perennials (Plants that come up each year, regardless of how terrible we treat them - mostly).  A trunk full of plants to be more accurate. As they were given to us, our beloved friend said 'just get them in the ground before it freezes and then sort it all out in spring' - mindful of the crazy timing of getting settled at the house and the looming changing of the season.  Sounded easy to me - 'just get them in the ground'.  Or it did until what I heard was translated (differently) by my beloved wife. When I heard 'get them in the ground' I imagined dig a hole insert 5 boxes of roots into the ground and cover.  Seems simple enough. (Isn't it amazing in marriage how we can hear the same thing differently?!).  So Sunni, interpreted ('correctly', mind you) that the plants should be laid out in a planned landscape design and then in the spring we could slightly alter their location based on actual height, diameter etc.  Remember we started with 'just get them in the ground'...

So all was fine, until we heard the weather report.  Yesterday it was in the mid 70s.  We had a picnic lunch at the park and then the kids and Sunni went to the Zoo. Gorgeous. Enter a weather warning of a drop in temperature of 30 degrees and the potential for snow this weekend. But before the snow was coming a couple inches of rain...The Clock was ticking. I got home from the office a bit later than expected and the rain clouds were quickly moving toward us.  THIS is when I heard the Spousal interpretation of 'just get them in the ground'.  With 1) a toddler still napping - to be up at any moment 2) an infant in a bouncy seat on the front porch - relatively content, for the moment 3) rain clouds literally above us AND 4) a variety of neighbors driving by to see the 'New Crazies' out landscaping...We did it.

I took some pictures last night (notice the night vision feature on my cell phone - that is because it was dark...not dusk...but DARK).



And then this morning...a sense of wonder, celebration and joyous laughter as I looked at what Chaos and Blessing can produce.  (Thanks Sunni for your gift of interpretation - although mine would have allowed for some mindless TV watching)


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