Saturdays

Now that I'm in school, I'm working a lot less.  There's just not a lot of time left at the end of the week to devote to more nursing.  I'm finding myself with a lot of Saturdays off, in part to an ill-experienced scheduler at work, and my own doing. 

I just want my Saturdays.

Doing what, I don't care.  Last Saturday I had my adventure. 

Yesterday, was a great Saturday. After relishing in our day at Little Buffalo last week, K asked me what I wanted to do for the next Saturday.  "I just want to have a fun day," I said.  And that we did. 

He ran errands in the morning, allowing me to sleep until 10:30, actually eat something (without the wrath of what happened on Tuesday),and sit in my basement room, soaking up the sunshine and watch two dogs play a little-too-aggressively.  K got home around 1:30, said let's go, and off we drove.  Our first stop was the Mall, for some Orange Juliususus, and browsing the perfume/cologne at Macy's.  An employee complemented me on my scarf.  Nice.

Next stop, Ashcombe's nursery. http://www.ashcombe.com/

We browsed country-style decorations, smelled candles, and he smiled while I oohed and aahed at all the little things that I saw.  How come this was my first visit, I'm not really sure.  But, that's not the point. 

The garden house---oh, my favorite.  A sunny room filled with budding tulips and daffodils, herbs, orchids, and lilies.  Seeds begging to be planted.  Birdhouses and feeders.  Birdies and bunnies in their cages, munching away.  I love it all.  I love nature.  I love gardening.  I ahhh, was so happy. 

I bought wooden labels for my soon-to-be-planted seedlings (more on that later).  He bought me an orchid in need of a little loving.  We picked out a bird feeder for the front yard and some house plants.  It was all very simple, but meant so much more to me.  It was inspiring--because gardening is just that, but more so, for the fact that someday, we'll be doing this for our own little place, and that's beautiful. 

Mmm...Orchid slime.  But kinda cool, right?

Then, we had hotdogs and chicken corn soup, and beautiful, moist yellow cake with chocolate icing.  Perfection. 




And then we went to the shitty PA Garden Show............ 


But, even that didn't touch our Saturday.  Our perfect, sunny, lovey Saturday.