My wife is the gardener in the family. She was away in Europe visiting children, grandchildren and friends for three weeks and while she was away I had to take care of the garden – one of my least favorite activities. It was pretty hot for a while and just watering all of the plants took on average 2.5 hours. I usually manage to kill a few, but this time I was a bit more diligent. When she’s away for 1-2 two weeks I tend to take the attitude that they’ll probably survive even if I do nothing. However, for three weeks I wasn’t at all sure that this was the case. So I was more careful than usual.

Although I don’t care much for gardening I do like it when the garden looks nice, and all the flowers are in bloom e.g. the two roses here (unfortunately I don’t know their names).