I am trying to imagine the meeting that took place, those many months ago, as you discussed setting a date for the marathon. I’m told that you consulted with local businesses, so that the route of the race as well as the timing would disrupt them as little as possible. Perhaps that is why, instead of having the race bright and early on a Saturday morning, you chose instead to have it on a Sunday morning.
And then planned the route smack dab in the middle of one of the highest church concentrations in the city of Atlanta.
You FUCKING MORONS, HOW COULD YOU BE SO STUPID??? JUST HOW DEEP WAS YOUR HEAD UP YOUR COLLECTIVE ASSES WHEN YOU DREAMED UP THAT PARTICULAR GEM, HUH? DID YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT IT? DID YOU REALIZE THAT THIS IS THE FUCKING SOUTH, AND EVERYONE FUCKING GOES TO CHURCH SUNDAY MORNINGS, AND THERE ARE 20 FUCKING CHURCHES ALONG THE ROUTE AND THAT MAYBE, JUST MAYBE THAT WOULD CAUSE SOME TRAFFIC ISSUES??? YOU FUCKING WASTES OF SPACE!!!!
So after sitting in non-moving traffic for an hour, and long abandoning hope of making it to the choir warm up, I gave up on making it to church all together and waited until we inched along to the point where I could turn around. And speed away angrily at around 60mph. If I had gotten pulled over by a cop, I would be in jail right now. THAT’S how mad I was.
So instead of church, I drove to Ace hardware (the absolute best hardware store ever. seriously, the one near me has the BEST customer service, SOOO much better than Home Depot) and bought plants. Flowers, actually. I’m giving up on my herbs this year - most of them shrivel and die in the midsummer sun, anyway - though it looks like the parsley, oregano, chives, and surprisingly the rosemary are making a comeback from last year.
Today’s bright sun and temperatures in the 80s inspired me. I want flowers! I want luscious plants that will thrive in heat and sun! And of course, the woman there was MORE than helpful. Within minutes I had a red wagon loaded up with my gorgeous flowers. And this is the result (very image heavy):
wait…something is missing…
thaaat’s better.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh….I’m dirty and sweaty and I feel better.
i bet you always feel better when you’re dirty and sweaty
Oh, it’s nowhere near time for green and growing things around here. I’m trying to live vicariously through all the blog entries from people further south who are digging in the dirt and playing with flowers.
We’ve got a couple of months before we can really plant anything around here. I was really excited to see that I finally succeeded at getting lavender to over-winter as I saw all three plants I put in last year have little baby sprouts at their bases. Yay!
We planted rose bushes instead.
Yeah flowers are the best! What would we do without them?When I was little we took a trip to the botanical gardens. It was a school trip. They made all the kids pick flowers and then bring them back to the botanical garden offices. this one girl was chewing them! They told us to make a salad with it. I was like…at five WHAT ARE YOU NUTS? the plants didn’t taste good.
And Nothing cheers me up like a sprig or oregano…goes good with roast potatoes.