Planning the first out-of-town trip for the brand, spanking new year. Going to Decatur tomorrow, with the usual 1/2 way there before the sun shows up. I hate, despise that traffic, and in an effort to avoid whizzing commuters, usually try to be on the road north by 5:00 a.m., putting me in Decatur, knocking on the door by 7:00, when everyone one else who stayed in bed fifteen extra minutes is tearing across town to get to work on time.
Someone cleverly ordered 100 spring-blooming bulbs, but has yet to get them in the ground. How will they know to wake up when the sun starts back north again if they haven't even been put to bed yet? I guess there is something about them that knows when the days are getting longer, to cause them to want to begin to show their smiling faces and gorgeous blooms as the seasons merge, but if they don't get planted, they can't put on the show!
I suspect it may be too late for the tulip bulbs to really perform, because they should have been put in the ground back in the fall, needing 'way more hours of cold weather than they will get with January planting, but hope that the assorted daffodils, hyacinths and others will come up with vigor once they get established. We shall see.... provided we can remember where what was planted when they start showing themselves above ground!
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