I should have done my homework!

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

Mitch Hedberg

I just came across this quote and had to chuckle at myself.  Sometimes, it is funny, that I will do something and think that I am so smart and have fooled the world.  If it wasn't dark outside right now, I would take a picture of my flower boxes.  I have a flower box that runs along the whole front of my house.  Now, I have no green thumb.  Every live plant I have ever tried to own, shrivels up.  I even tried a bamboo plant.  My husband told me not to buy it, but, I had to have it because we bought new bamboo furniture for the guest room and I thought I could handle it.  It only needed to be watered once a week or was it two weeks?  Anyway, yep, I killed it.  The leaves started falling off and well, it was done.

Back to my flower box.  I do not enjoy the dirt under my nails or the smell of earth, so I decided to put some fake flowers in the boxes.  I mean Jo Ann Fabrics has any and every kind of flower and color you could want.  I went to town and bought red, purple and yellow flowers for my box and my husband and I stuck them in the dirt and they were beautiful.  From the end of the driveway...they looked real and I never had to water or fertilize them.  The only job was to change them when the sun faded the colors, no biggie, I could do that.

Well, we had some friends over for dinner.  A "know it all" gardener, who kind of laughed at my flower box.  I couldn't understand what her problem was...they looked just fine to me.  She then proceeded to tell me that "sure, the flowers look nice and colorful, however, those type of flowers don't grow this time of year."  I was like, "What?"   Okay, so there have been other times where I felt I could crawl under the carpet or hide in the closet because of something I had done or said, but, it hit me just then, Not only did she know that about flowers, I bet lots of other people knew that too!  How many neighbors were laughing at me.  And people driving down the road thinking I am crazy.

What else could I do, but, laugh at myself....which I am getting used to doing more and more, but hey, there's got to be a few driver by's that point to their spouse and exclaim "Wow, honey, look at those beautiful flowers.  Let's do that at our house."   

And, my hands are nice and smooth with no dirt under my well manicured nails.

I have also learned to go on the internet and find out which flowers grow at which times.....I'll show her!