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The weather was too perfect to sit inside all day watching football. I’d rather heed the blackbirds’ beckoning.
I know, this is blasphemy to the dyed-in-the-wool pigskin fans, but even they would understand the allure of outside when temperatures soared to the sixties and the sun beamed unabashedly from the heavens on Super Bowl Sunday.
Norm gave me two potted trees to use as Christmas decorations before our stuff arrived from France. Now they looked rather forlorn, as though they, too, were enticed by the call of the outdoors. I put on a pot of chili to humor the family then I trekked to the bayou to give my trees their new home.
Ah! Much better! Now they can dig those roots deep into the soil and grow towards the sun. If I were a tree, that’s what I’d do.
Stacy Rambles 
That sounds like a much better way to spend the day than football!
I agree – especially because the Saints weren’t playing. 😉
Hi Stacy: Like you I did other things Sunday than watch football–for instance I finished reading your book, “The Diary of Marie Landry.” Nicely done! I’ll bring my copy for you to autograph at a future SCBWI meeting. Good luck with your marketing efforts. Kit H. Lipps
Oh, you just made my day, Kit! Yes, of course I’ll sign your copy next time I come to a meeting, which will likely be March or April. ❤
The allure of the outdoors is always great for me too Stacy, I love my garden so much and would prefer to be outdoors with the birds any day over watching football! Your tree looks so lush and green, I’m sure it will be so happy by the bayou. 🙂
Kindred spirits, we are, Joanne. ❤
Dearest Stacy,
Those two trees look very healthy and nicely compact too. They will be very happy in their new natural surroundings and certainly reward you with quite some growth for this year! We did celebrate a new American Citizenship with friends, their youngest daughter finally got naturalized too. Somehow she fell between the cracks of the system. So much about bureaucracy. Enjoy your garden being established, one bit at a time. You always must give a new garden about five years for seeing the results!
Hugs to you,
Mariette
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That’s fantastic news, Mariette – tell our new American congratulations for me, will you, please?
I will wait patiently for my little wooded friends to do their thing. ❤
Good for you. Good for us: trees, roots, blackbirds, soul, spirit, life…
You get it, don’t you? 🙂
Do I get the lunacy of NFL football? And how planting a tree on superbowl Sunday is one huge gesture towards sanity? I get it.