| Author | Content |
doccat5
Fredericksburg, VA
(Zone 7b)
February 14, 2008
06:46 AM Post #4536332
| He sounds like a keeper, Carrie. They sell more lilacs... |
Dutchlady1
Naples, FL
(Zone 10a)
February 14, 2008
06:54 AM Post #4536339
| Cute story. I agree; keep the DH. |
Seandor
Springfield, MA
(Zone 6a)
February 14, 2008
07:54 AM Post #4536378
| What a sweetie . . . :-) |
carrielamont
Milton, MA
(Zone 6a)
February 14, 2008
08:19 AM Post #4536422
| He is a sweetie, I am keeping him and next time we're collaborating on the placement of the lilac. . .!
x, Carrie |
CapeCodGardener
Mid-Cape, MA
(Zone 7a)
February 14, 2008
11:47 AM Post #4537137
| Romance conquers all! I love it! Especially on V-Day.
--Emily |
angele
Elephant Butte, NM
(Zone 7b)
February 14, 2008
12:22 PM Post #4537301
| Very fun reading, thanks for writing! |
critterologist
Frederick, MD
(Zone 6b)
February 14, 2008
12:23 PM Post #4537311
| What a fun article! Thanks, Carrie!
I didn't get a bouquet of flowers from the grocery store today... I got a plant I fell in love with last Sunday when my tolerant DH treated me to a stop at a local nursery. He'll stop to browse in a bookstore any time, but plants aren't quite so much his thing. :-)
Happy Valentine's Day! |
tcs1366
Itasca,IL&Lk Delton, WI
(Zone 5a)
February 14, 2008
12:41 PM Post #4537404
| Carrie -- great story!! I actually have tears from giggling. What a great guy you've got...
Happy Valentines day!!
my DH says he does not celebrate Hallmark Holidays ...
so if i want flowers, i buy them myself... but I usually wait til Spring and buy a new Rose bush. |
carrielamont
Milton, MA
(Zone 6a)
February 14, 2008
02:03 PM Post #4537767
| Good plan, tcs. I would prefer not to celebrate Hallmark holidays myself, but I've got a big mushball for husband.
"Oh, sweetie, I really didn't mind that one year when all I got was $5 worth of Godiva chocolates and not $50 worth of roses - dead roses - I mean beautiful incredible unbelievable roses! (How much did he charge you for the balloon? You're kidding me!) Thank you, darling, mmmmmwah!" -me
"You deserve so much better, i should have got the filler foliage too." -him
Yup, he's a keeper.
xx, Carrie |
tcs1366
Itasca,IL&Lk Delton, WI
(Zone 5a)
February 14, 2008
02:09 PM Post #4537794
| ROFLMAO
I thinik DH bought me flowers ONCE in our relationship. It was my 20th Bday and we were supposed to be going out to dinner and he got called away... At the time, he was working for a charter operation out of O'Hare, mostly flying transplant teams... so, when they need ya, ya gotta go. OH, and no cell phones back then... so i came home to a note.
I still have the lil wooden sign that came with the flowers.
|
carrielamont
Milton, MA
(Zone 6a)
February 14, 2008
02:24 PM Post #4537856
| Awwwww. I had a guy when I was 20 - never bought me flowers nor little wooden signs. Sounds like we both got keepers now! x, C |
tcs1366
Itasca,IL&Lk Delton, WI
(Zone 5a)
February 14, 2008
02:28 PM Post #4537878
| you're just too funny!! |
tcs1366
Itasca,IL&Lk Delton, WI
(Zone 5a)
February 14, 2008
02:35 PM Post #4537908
| OH bummer -- i can't add an image to this post
well, here is my lil wooden flower 'card'
http://www.smythcustomknives.com/images/misc/IMG_5095.jpg |
carrielamont
Milton, MA
(Zone 6a)
February 14, 2008
02:57 PM Post #4537993
| sniffle... sniffle... isn't that just the sweetest? Is that the actual exact one? Wow. |
tcs1366
Itasca,IL&Lk Delton, WI
(Zone 5a)
February 14, 2008
03:00 PM Post #4538003
| yea -- it's the same one. I figure, with DH, those lil trinkets are few and far between... so i'd better keep it.
He's a super guy... but far from romantic. |
carrielamont
Milton, MA
(Zone 6a)
February 14, 2008
03:02 PM Post #4538018
| Ha ha, I got super and romantic, just not clairvoyant, and doesn't take a hint, either.
x, C |
amethystsm
New Haven, CT
(Zone 6a)
February 14, 2008
06:31 PM Post #4538842
| great article, Carrie! my DH rarely brings me cut flowers anymore - he's learned that since i've started gardening, i just don't feel the same about bouquets... He doesn't buy me the growing kind either, but he digs out poison ivy for me, and what more can a girl ask for?
amy
* |
darius
So.Appalachian Mtns, VA
(Zone 5b)
February 14, 2008
06:49 PM Post #4538898
| Appropriate message for the day... and fun! |
carrielamont
Milton, MA
(Zone 6a)
February 14, 2008
08:14 PM Post #4539342
| Thank you all... DH still feels like a Real Man would buy me a huge bouquet of dead flowers... This year, lucky for me, we're too broke, so he has to help make compost!
x, Carrie |
Seandor
Springfield, MA
(Zone 6a)
February 14, 2008
10:12 PM Post #4539868
| My DH always buys chocolate - then helps me eat them :-) |
carrielamont
Milton, MA
(Zone 6a)
February 15, 2008
10:28 AM Post #4541403
| That's the spirit!
x, Carrie
(What brand does he buy, though?) |
Seandor
Springfield, MA
(Zone 6a)
February 16, 2008
08:45 PM Post #4548160
| Hershey - we are not affluent enough to buy elite chocolates |
carrielamont
Milton, MA
(Zone 6a)
February 17, 2008
09:52 AM Post #4549690
| See's - if one is going to buy candy once a year, might as well buy what one will eat. Otherwise I'm just feeding the mice, and they could stand to lose a few ounces each. May the spirit of love shine upon each of us. . .
xoxoxo, Carrie
edited to say except the mice in the attic.
This message was edited Feb 17, 2008 8:53 AM |
Seandor
Springfield, MA
(Zone 6a)
February 17, 2008
11:37 AM Post #4550051
| Well, I eat less of the grease-bar chocolate! If it were REALLY good stuff, I would eat it all by myself :-)
No mice in the attic! |
amethystsm
New Haven, CT
(Zone 6a)
February 17, 2008
03:21 PM Post #4551029
| O gee - i can't do Hershey's. If i have to have over-the-counter chocolate, it's gotta be at least Russell Stover's. Choxie at Target has some good stuff, and pretty too. Trader Joe's chocolate bars are inexpensive good quality.
It's pretty cool that FINALLY in recent years there is more quality chocolate becoming available in the US.
amy
*
(chocolate snob) |
tcs1366
Itasca,IL&Lk Delton, WI
(Zone 5a)
February 17, 2008
03:41 PM Post #4551123
| OH -- i just love TJ's Organic Dark Chocolate ... they're good for you too.
This thread did get me thinking... it's not like DH doesnt buy me things on a whim ... but they are things that you would think of ... like a custom marble with a rose in the middle. I get things that are more like his interests or hobbies.
So if i said I got a 25th anniversary Walter Brend ... you'd have no idea what i was talking about... but its' a stunning gift.
So - guess he can be a softy.
Chocolates... he knows better to buy me those... I'll just slap'em right to my thighs!! |
