100 holes

In this new life I'm getting used to new things, Costco being one of them.....I've never been a regular Costco shopper so when Jim "goes to the grocery store" and comes home with something somewhat random, I am still a little surprised.

As I am writing this I am reminded of the day Jim called me a work to ask, "what size pants do you wear?“ my immediate thought was that we ran out of milk and Costco had a killer deal on clothing, and you know what?, the plum capries waiting for me when I got home proved my theory to be correct.

Several weeks ago Jim came home with two bags of tulip bulbs he bought because we were out of pineapple and because they were purple (the tulips) we decided to place them in the basement until the weather cooled enough to plant, which turned out to be today.

After trimming the shrubs and cleaning the flower beds we began digging holes. I had a garden trowel and tulip planter but quickly realized that with small tools this would be no simple task. Jim wanted no part of the garden trowel and retrieve a big boy shovel from the garage. Soon we had as system down where he would pierce the soil and open a small crevice where I would put the bulb in, then he replace the dirt.

After a few minutes of aggressively planting, Jim paused to ask me how many bulbs needed planting,  I told him that each bag of bulbs contained 2 smaller bags of 25 bulbs each, so in total he bought a total of 100 bulbs so we would need to dig 100 holes!

I'm pretty sure this was the first time I had planted bulbs and I am really glad Jim did not buy three bags of bulbs. I'm already excited for spring and for the opportunity of seeing our hard work translated into a carpet of purple tulips.