"Happy Father's Day," said my wife.
"Oh, is this Father's Day weekend? Nice."
The box said it was from a rose company.
"We need to bring it in and open it," she said.
The plant's label card said:
William Shakespeare 2000TM (Ausromeo)This was another example of the incisive thoughtfulness of my wife, who thirty years earlier had given her "suffering artist husband" a little book of selected paintings by Vincent van Gogh.
Superb blooms of richest velvet crimson. Strong Old Rose fragrance. A bushy, free flowering shrub.
4ft x 3ft. Zones 5-10.
Apricot Kuchen
And my wife prepared and baked a kuchen for me this morning, using apricots from Visalia, California, a dozen miles from where we met, on Friday, March 4, 1966:My first piece:My second piece:My lunch (with raspberries from Florida, where my wife and I vacationed in the early 'nineties—with our daughter—and in 1995, while the OJ Simpson trial was going on):My dessert after lunch (with blueberries from Watsonville, California, about 45 miles from where my wife and I were wed on Friday, April 15, 1966):My dessert after dinner:Thank you, my dear wife, and "Happy My Father's Day" to you too!
And to Siegfried, shown here distracted from playing with one of the socks I had worn three and a half hours outside this afternoon while stimulating the Bermuda grass to grow in some sparse areas.
What a wonderful day indeed !!
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Love Dawn
man that looks good! high five to Mrs. Moristotle!
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