It’s a Jungle in There!
So, you’re thinking, “Why would people with a minivan stuff a garden into the back of a little blue Cavalier coupe?”
It’s a long story… and I’m too damned tired to type it. Let’s just say that the van is full of something else right now.
(Cool! We figured out how to do extended entries! 
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Anyway, after we got back from the LaRocca gig, we decided to head over to the local big orange box home improvement emporium to get a new shovel to plant the trees we picked up from my parents house yesterday. (BTW, we visited said same local big orange box home improvement emporium last night after our trip to pick up the trees, but then, who’s counting trips at this point.) The results of our trip to the local big orange box home improvement emporium to pick up a shovel are shown in the picture. After we dragged all those goodies around to the back yard, we staked off the lot, so I know where to dig the appropriate holes in the ground.
That was one heckuva ’spensive shovel.
(Coming as soon as I figure out how … GardenCam)
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Ah, yes. The “just need a bag of mulch” trip to the garden center/nursery. Said trip turns into “Holy hell, I’ve got a vehicle full of plants, bags, and tools, and my wallet is $100 lighter.” I think we both black out upon entering the nursery, ’cause it gets all fuzzy between “Buy a shovel” and “Come home with a dozen new plants”.
Of course, I now have lilac, roses, monarda didyma, catmint, astilbe, skimmia, Provence lavander, and lily of the valley in the front. At least it all smells good.
All I can say is that this was the most expensive shovel I’ve ever bought! (Well, actually, Donna bought it, not me, but you get my point)
I’m sorry, I don’t feel a bit sorry for you. You’ve never gone to the Big Orange Box home improvement store with The Hub. That place is like CRACK for a handyman!! Early in our marriage, before I learned to confiscate his credit card before we went in, we once went in there for a can of paint and came out with 7 cans of paint, 2 light fixutres, 3 rosebushes, a faucet for which we had no immediate need whatsoever, but it was “a good deal”, pruning shears, electrical wire, about 30 different types of screws, and a toilet. He had a pick up truck, and he was not afraid to use it! At least in your case your yard is really going to look terrific and everything you bought was related to a single project. I just sold that stupid faucet, still in it’s box, at a yard sale last year!
I really don’t understand why you had to point out that Donna brought the shovel and not you. So, no i don’t get your point.
The point, I guess, is that I went in for a shovel and we came out with a whole garden.