As much As I Love Flowers......!

    This flower shows how I'm feeling today! There's a story behind this flower involving my 'Chef' hubby. He has moved on to flower arranging...sorta. :-/ I'll tell you about it in a minute, but I've got some other business to take care of first.
   First order of business?! THANK YOU to all of you who were so encouraging to me! I had a couple of days of feeling like this...

    ...but today I'm back to feeling like myself, like this!

     I love flowers!!! They say it all, without words. Do you get what I'm saying to you?! :-)
    Next order of business?! Thanks to Melissa Blake over at the blog, "so about what I said". She hosted the Giveaway for my Purse Sueded Hand Bag yesterday. A winner was chosen.  It's "Whitney"!! Congratulations Whitney!!! My 'baby' will be coming to stay with you today! I hope you find a good and happy use for this little "baby" of mine!

     *Me talking to the 'baby*...."Now you go to Whitney's house and behave yourself! You're representing our family and I don't want no stuff!!!...Have a good time!"
    I also have some other good news. Remember utary, from this blog post about giving some Etsy sellers their first sale?! Well, WOOHOO!! She got her first sale!! I thought it was so nice of her to contact me to let me know. It feels so good to know I might have been of help to somebody!! (Definitely one of the things I like most about blogging....besides talking my head off, of course! ^_^)
   And there's some good news for me too! My Red Wired Brown Butterfly Necklace, that I made with wire and crochet thread,

     ....made it into a beautiful Treasury on Etsy, curated by dreambelledesign!

      It's entitled "Dulce De Leche With A Chocolate Twist-TT Team". Please click over there and check out the shops. There's some great gift idea items in there. One I really love is this "Butterfly Variegated Jasper Purse/Zipper Pull" by my dear friend Cindy!

    Isn't it gorgeous?!
WHEW!! Finally I can tell you my story about the flowers!...Hubby hasn't cooked anything else since the "Meal" he made the other day. We're still nibbling on the pork chops and steak he made. Well,...I'M still nibbling. I'm trying to prolong this "dry" cooking spell as long as I can!! LOL
    The flowers are another story!....My friend, because I haven't been well, brought me the most beautiful flowers!!

     They were so beautiful! But unfortunately, as soon as I started sniffing and hugging them up, I started coughing and wheezing and my throat started to burn. :-( So, I told hubby to take them and put them in a vase and arrange them pretty so that other people coming into the house could enjoy them.
     What was I thinking?! My husband's idea of "pretty vase" and "arrange them pretty" looked like this...

     They're all bunched up in this green plastic vase, with the protective cover still on some of the flowers!!! You're probably saying: "What's the problem?!"....Well the problem is that I got these flowers on Wednesday of last week! Why is the protective cover still on there while the rest of the poor flowers are wilting?! What exactly are they being protected from?....HIM?! LOL
     My friend came over yesterday...now it's a whole week later...saw these flowers and said: "Uh....What's up with these?!"

      *Sigh*....Not only are there little flowers all bunched into a cocooned girdle protector, but when she turned the vase around in the light of my window, one little sad 'baby' was hanging there as if to say: "Please help me". It reminded me of that movie "The Fly" that I saw 40 years ago!!...And why is there hardly NO water in the vase?!...Now he can check TWO career choices off of his list!! It's a good thing he's lovable, and that he's not standing in an inch of water propped up in a green flower vase!! After this incident I might be tempted not to water him!! LOL
    My friend took the flowers out of this 'Flower Jail', while I was starting to cough and wheeze again, arranged and photographed them in the other room, and brought me these flowers...ones I can keep forever and not have to water! :-)

     Oh! And you want to know what his reaction was when I called this to his attention and directly asked him the questions I just mentioned?!...He said:...And I quote:..."You know I'm not no flower designer!"...You are exactly right! And you ain't no cook neither, but that doesn't seem to be stopping you from doing it!!! LOL (I said that last part to myself! ^_^) I'm thinking good thoughts, remembering how hard he's trying, and in how many OTHER ways he's my perfect match!!.....And staring out the window at my backyard, starting to get the "FALL" feeling, brings me back to calm again. :-)

     I'm thinking it must have been nice for him when he was a boy. No ovens or flowers in sight!!! LOL

 When Jeff Was A Boy

He had an orange bicycle
that he rode all over town;
A banana-seated 'Stingray',
and its handle grips were brown.

At12, to make some cash,
he had a great big paper route.
He'd either walk or ride his bike.
Come rain or shine, he would go out.

He had a fast-red wagon
he pretended was a car.
He hauled everything in sight,
from sister's dolls to dirt-filled jars.

He played little league football,
basketball, kick soccer too.
Despite his having asthma
(which his coaches never knew).

He had lots of toys to play with-
matchbox cars and small 'Hot Wheels',
'Pick-up Sticks' and building blocks,
and model planes, which gave him thrills.

All his responsibility
was to take 'Skippy' out to run.
That's all his dog and him would do.
This made his childhood lots of fun!