Deployment Journal - Day #108

Today, we abandoned our regular plans and bought - impulsively - 61 bulbs.  Three were obvious duds.  So, we planted 58 of them - tulips, irises, freesias, crocuses across eleven individual pots, and one corner of my freshly raked garden box

And it felt so good.  The relief I'd felt, being "done" with gardening a few weeks ago was replaced with the instant joy of hard, gratifying, physical labor - plus, the anticipation of what beauty will appear in six or so months.

This must be a little what it feels like when you didn't think you wanted to get pregnant yet, but somehow are inexplicably gleeful, 24 hours after an unexpectedly positive test result...