Wednesday, June 17, 2009

I saved it!

As I've mentioned before, we lost several Asian lilies to children and dogs this year. One of the more recent ones was already a couple of feet high with buds on it when it was snapped by a rampaging tiny dog.

My dad made a valiant effort to splint it (involving a wood stake, string, and masking tape) but I noticed it was slowly dying from the ground up, and the buds were still closed. So a few days ago I plucked it and brought it inside. Couldn't hurt.
Voila! The moral of this story is that we are all just fragile lilies, trampled by the fluffy dog that is life.... I got nothing. Except that I saved the flower.

4 comments:

BJS said...

. . . we are all just fragile lilies, trampled by the fluffy dog that is life....
immobilized by the wood stake of addiction . . .
tangled in the string of deception . . .
bound by the masking tape of jealousy. . .

EG said...

HA HA, I like it. This could be one of those progressive stories things that we had to do in english class.

Pop said...

Can't believe the fluffy dog is taking a hit.

Corinne said...

You're hilarious E. I look forward to more of your musings :-)