Today was quite an adventure. Hubs, myself and a friend were helping my friend in whose orchid greenhouse I've been working pick up a lot of plants from another orchid grower's greenhouse. This guy has severe health issues, is bedridden and has to give up his orchids. My orchid friend oferred to tske the plants and sell them for him.
All was well until we arrived. We didn't have the chance to get out of the cars because the daily tropical downpour began. Anyone who lives in Florida can tell you its a deluge. So we waited in our cars. About 20 minutes later it was over and my friend decided to pull his car by the greenhouse door to make loading faster. Big mistake. His car got stuck in the wet sand. Couldn't go forward or backward.
So…ok…while we waited for a towtruck to pull the car out, we started loading plants in the cars. All went smoothly until I picked up one particular plant. It looked just like the rest. And then the fire ants than were living in it unbeknownst to us…took offense at my trying to move it. They invaded my arm and made sure I knew their displeasure. Mind you this is the same arm that the yellow fly bit a few months ago and sent me to the ER where I found out I had afib.
I have never been stung by fire ants before but had heard that the sting is awful…it feels like you're burning. Well it's no lie!
So we finally got my sting under some control, my friend's care unstuck, the plants loaded up and headed home. We were following my orchid friend who assured us he knew a shorter way back home. Ummm! You guessed it…he didn't…he got us lost. And before you ask, no, he doesn't trust GPS…he knows for a fact it gives wrong directions…never uses it. Hubs and I of course use it all the time so it got us home but not for over twice as long as it could have been if we had not gotten lost and drove quite a distance the wrong direction
So we finally get home, have some chill time and go to bed. Hubs is now bleesfully asleep but me…can't sleep. Besides the itching my occasional restless leg syndrome decided to act up.
I might just stay in bed for the next week
...I have books on my wish list that go so far back in time, that Amazon was primarily a good source for not much beyond books, with what I think was their only warehouse then for shipping, situated in Sparks, NV....
