Ann

Aside from my lovely recovery garden in my backyard, I had two hanging plants of yellow begonias (No Smoke...my Smoke Begonias are in my garden), that hung from my front porch.

I bought them early spring when I needed something to perk me up. I tended them and nursed them back to health when the weather was cold, and they looked sooo pretty.

Well, dang. <img border="0" alt="[Mad!]" title="" src="graemlins/../graemlins/mad3.gif" /> I looked out this morning and one of them was gone!! I went out to see if it blew off or fell off into my front garden, but nooooo, they had been stolen and I was furious. Really furious, and I had to sit down and figure out why I was sooo furious.

I can go out today and replace it, no big deal. Relative to all the other problems I have had in my life, no big deal. And "Thank you God' if this is the biggest problem I have today.

But I realized that I was sooo mad, because yet again someone had stolen from me. My son did it for years and all that pain came rushing back. Even though I know he didn't take them (he doesn't give a tinkers dam about begonias), I was mad at him and everyone like him who ever stole from nice people like us. Is there no end???

I know I have to pray for whoever did this (my program and she-devil sponsor told me that), and I pray that they will find some peace and enjoyment from them, that maybe it was a child who wanted to take something nice home to a home where there was nothing nice, or that some smart-ass teenager took it just to be mean, and that they will have a stab of conscience somewhere in all this that will help them learn to be honest and kind. Oh, yes, I pray for them all, whoever they are, and pray that today those begonias will send some kind of beautiful message to their hearts. And I pray with gratitude that,as I pray, I know I have already forgiven whoever did this.

And today I will go out and buy some more yellow begonias, and hand them on my porch. And I will sit there looking at them and work on why I still have pent up resentments over past thefts.

This is no big deal compared to the chaos in most of your lives right now, but I really needed to vent and not carry this around all day.

Thank you for being here.

Hugs

Morning Glory

I know just how you feel, letting the anger out concerning the missing flowers. I came home and the gardener used a weedeater on my entire flower garden. It was the straw that broke the camels back. All my bulbs and wild flowers gone. I mean how stupid can you get?

Then I came home 2 days ago and my son was so proud for weeding my entire backyard. All the flowers and vegetables gone. I had been watering and watching everything grow for 2 months.

Well needless to say, the gardener is gone, but I just told my son, good job, thankyou.

I'll buy him some bulbs and seeds. It will give him something to do. I'll tell him it's his recovery garden. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

Hugs,

MG

piggle

I am so sorry to hear about your begonias. I know, for me, my plants become little friends (OK, maybe now all will know I am insane!!). Each one has its own qualities (read personalities LOL) and you watch them grow every day. You know when a new leaf is forming...and while you can get new begonias, there really isn't a replacement! Sorry for your loss and the memories it brought back <img border="0" alt="[angel]" title="" src="graemlins/../graemlins/angel2.gif" />

smoke gets in my eyes

Motherless cretins!

A couple of memorial days ago I went with my family on the great Mason county cemetary tour. We have relations buried all over the place up there and my mom likes to decorate with flowers on memorial day.

We did the cemetary where her parents are buried first (that's WaRshington, Ann!), and after we'd finished all the other ones came back through that way. Mom wanted to talk to her folks one more time, so we stopped again. In just the couple of hours we were gone, someone had stolen the flowers off their graves. How low can you go?

I identify with your outrage too. Grrr.

Hugs!
Smoke

Ann

You all make be laugh so hard. "Motherless cretins?"LOL. And the cemetary flowers...boo hiss.

And MG - you are so sweet, and this just might be his "recovery garden" and think how special that would be.

And Piggle, sometimes they are better little friends than the onces we are dealing with.

And it DID teach me something about myself that I was not aware of...so all is not lost.

It is raining here today, but I am going out anyway. Ain't nothing gonna stop me now!!!! I am a woman on a mission. I WILL SURVIVE!!!

Hugs

Rose56

I am sorry Anns about your Begonias. I have impatients on my front porch, 4 hanging plants. And I water them every night and they give me so much pleasure. In past years I have tried geraniums and bosten ferns. The geraniums didnt get enough light to bloom much and the ferns were nice and green but I missed the flowers. So this year I decided on impatients and they are perfect! They are blooming so nicely and they make me feel so successful! If even one of them were missing, I would be so mad. Not for the flower per se, but for the stolen symbol of my success.
Anns, I respect you. You are so insightful and thoughtful about your recovery. You inspire me, so in a way you are a recovery flower for me, blooming so nicely and making me feel successful! Have a great day.