As you may be able to tell
today we picked up some seeds to plant. But the caveat here to these particular
seed packs is that although we live in Florida
in a semi-tropical climate we are in zone 10 for all plantings and according to
their packaging we missed our plant date, since the different packs state from
March to August at the latest to plant these specific types! We are the last on
the maps for such things. And even though my idea to plant pretty colorful
different types of Marigolds that actually are beneficial in the respect of
preventing insects from becoming a problem, and these would be going in terra
cotta planters at the end of the pool decking, against the white fence. The
other issue here is the fact that the sold by date is November and December of
the upcoming months of this year, 2014! Something is not quite right; is it me
or do you see it too? These seed packets were in the rack at our local Home
Depot in Port Charlotte Fl, our always go to home improvement store and where
we bought most of the 80K of our rebuild needs for our home that had been
destroyed by Hurricane Andrew in 2004, basically our whole home! Any-who, we
love them and their helpful people and so I went over to the Customer Service
Desk and explained the situation to the people there, and between Gwen and
Carol I asked perhaps that these due to being iffy if they will come up at this
time of year and will be way outdated by next season, I suggested maybe they
could discount them. Bold move on my part, but if you don't ask you don't know,
ya know? And after some discussion and careful consideration Gwen said to take
them for free! I said thank you! Still I offered perhaps a discount would be
alright, but she insisted and said no take them and so I did.
Any-who, that was our third stop for the day our first was at Sam’s Club Optical where I had ordered my contact lenses for my right eye on Thursday they had arrived, my answer to no free glasses and a cheaper way to go, even without insurance coverage for them,… a six month supply for around thirty-three dollars, used to be twenty, five years ago, if I recall correctly, next we went to TGI Fridays for our lunch.
Between the fruit and OTC medications from Sam’s I was concerned for their freshness and spoilage of them being left in that very hot car. So after we had lunch we took a couple of my ice packs from my cooling vest for those leftovers too and so we proceeded on to the Home Depot for the seeds and some seed starter soil to add into the compost as well as the components for Hubby to add on to the fence where there is a gap, on the shed side, and so the across the canal neighbors could not see me when they come back in the next few months, if I am still swimming, which for many years it has been warm enough, even then in November, really!
The man there is the one we caught using a pair of binoculars to see into our yard one time, what a way to take away our privacy and create paranoia!
Our final stop was Publix up
near there by those stores nearly five miles from here; we have quite a few Publixes in county.
They were quite helpful, but not as
great as our own back here in our neck of the woods, where they really do know
our names and we know theirs too!
On that note of our
interesting outcome, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very
happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all
those overages with you know who and we will too!
And next time please be here
or be square, ya hear!