A Piney 29th Anniversary

[RednekF350]

Today was my 29th wedding anniversary and true to form, I didn't spend a lot of money on a present.

My wife and I were teenagers when we started dating in the late 1970's and I also started land surveying back then as a summer job in high school and later, in the summers during college. Whenever I came upon fresh laurel blooms while surveying in the pines I would hack a few branches off with the brush hook and bring them home to my sweetie. She was enamored. Or pissed.

We both remember that like it was yesterday and I have brought a laurel blooms to her on just about every anniversary since. The timing of the bloom is perfect.

Tonight I outdid myself and made a full arangement out of mountain laurel and multiflora rose. The rose added a little color and fragrance. I finally found my feminine side.


So, with a glass of my homemade jet fuel strength pinot noir, I greeted her at the door with the piney bouquet.
She truly loved it

Here's to tweny nine more years !


The killer bouquet.

The multiflora in bloom.

 

[LARGO]

Good stuff. Congrats to both of you.
Fine people, friends, and neighbors.
You both must be very blessed with your shared interests and all the well spent time enjoying them.
(Either that or Dottie has patiently put up with a lot of your insanity and road kill for 29+ years)
A fine set of boys out of the deal as well.
Well, good spirits of Pestletown, best wishes for many years ahead.
Here is a place abundant with your flower of celebration, well chosen.

George

 

[dogg57]

Happy


29th Anniversary

Piney Style !

 

[oji]

I really like the fact that you used a real vase and not an old mayo jar. Happy Anniversary!

 

[bobpbx]

Very nice and sweet Scott. Congratulations.

PS: Keep that Multiflora rose away from your yard. I hacked three plants up yesterday.

 

[long-a-coming]

Congrats Mr. and Mrs Smith. I'm happy to know such a great couple. Here's to years and years of adventures and great times!

 

[Pine Baron]

Scott and Dot-

Congratulations on your first 29 years! Here's wishing you continued blessings for your next 30 or so.

(Nice work with the laurel, Scott )

John-

 

[Teegate]

I really enjoyed this post. Congrats Scott and Dotty!

Guy

 

[RednekF350]

Thanks everyone.
It really has been important to have common interests over all these years. She loves to fish the ocean, crab, clam and she loves the woods as much as I do. With the exception of hunting, if I am in the woods or on the water it's with her.

 

[Boyd]

Congratulations, and I hope you have many more happy years!
_________________________________________

Hey, Tom Banjo,
Hey, a laurel.
More than laurel you may sow.
More than laurel you may sow.
Hey, the laurel; hey the city in the rain.
Hey, hey, hey, the wild wheat waving in the wind.

(Garcia/Hunter)

 

[manumuskin]

A teenager in the late 70's? That would make you an old man like me! Perhaps even older!
I live in Laurel Lake (actually not in the lake but on high ground along the southern side) and the Laurel be kickin here and I have wild taking over type rose bushes in the woodlot beside the yard,problem is my anniversary is in september,have to make up some Goldenrod arrangements.Not good for Momma allergies but very purty!

 

[turtle]

Al,

Give the goldenrod another try! It's most likely ragweed that Sweetpea is allergic to. They bloom at the same time and the lovely goldenrod gets all the blame....

Happy Anniversary Scott & Dottie! May you be blessed with many more.

Terry

 

[manumuskin]

Al,

Give the goldenrod another try! It's most likely ragweed that Sweetpea is allergic to. They bloom at the same time and the lovely goldenrod gets all the blame....

Happy Anniversary Scott & Dottie! May you be blessed with many more.

Terry

I had heard that before then I heard that Goldenrod and ragweed are both to blame.I know ragweed is everywhere and the nearest goldenrod to the house i know of is over a mile away but both being wind pollinators distance probably doesn't matter much.ragweed is much less showy and blooms exactly when Goldenrod does so your probably right,the weed is the culprit but the showy flower gets the blame.

 

[Boyd]

I was really allergic to ragweed as a kid growing up in the midwest - I was miserable in August/September. Maybe we have a different variety here, but I don't seem to have much of a problem any more. More likely, my allergies just changed as I grew older (which seems pretty common). The tree pollen bothers me now in the Spring and it never used to.

 

[manumuskin]

ragweed grows everywhere here a lawn mower can't get to and the other plants don't choke it out.When pollen season gets close I start checking it by flipping the flower heads over and looking underneath.As soon as I see the yellow pollen grains I know my wife is about to get it.she has allergies all year though.tree pollen in the spring,she takes a deep breath mid summer and then gets slammed in september again.