Ok...this is not about guns or game or cars or sports...just something sentimental about Mother's Day. You may want to look at another thread instead of wasting your time with what I've got to say on this subject.
However...we (my two grown daughters, aged 33 and 38) and their husbands and my three grandkids made my wife and their mother about as happy as she could stand. It was something as simple as planning a workday (today) in our yard planting roses and flowers for her which she has been unable to do recently due to her back problems.
They had bought all the materials, including the red bricks to line the new 4' x 25' rose garden, and we all jumped in to do the work. I had dug up the ground last week with my roto-tiller and removed all the tree roots which come from a nearby maple tree. All the materials were setting in the back yard waiting for us to digest our steak dinners. After that it was all elbows and axxhoxes as we dug, planted, laid down black paper, installed the red bricks level and straight, and tried to involve our three grandkids, too.
My wife was about as happy as she could be as we took a family group picture of us all standing behind my wife's newly built rose garden, which holds seven beautifully planted roses of different colors, all blooming.
In addition, they planted flowers in all of her other flower boxes and pots, too.
Sounds like something simple to do but none of us will forget the fun we had today doing something together for my wife and their mother. Every time we look out of our back kitchen windows we'll remember and appreciate what happened today.
Yes. She was beaming the whole time. Made me really proud of my kids for thinking of something like that...and we really had fun working together on the project which took about three hours.
One thing for sure...that cold beer really tasted good after all that work.
Actually OX, kinda funny, I bought a bunch of Moss Rose and Hybiscus.......spent the morning planting them for Melissa while she was out. She said it was a great gift!
Although, we live in an apartment so I had to plant them in pots outside for her.
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Ox you old romantic you, that was great, you to 1*Id do that for mrs 7mmag, but with this drought we cant even grow grass, even the weeds are dying, i have a nice rock garden in back
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Yes, Oneastrix...Mother's day is for that special lady and a person's mother...not for what we guys want to do or have. Whatever makes Mom happy makes the rest of us happy. I was glad to donate my time, plus I got to be with my family that much more while my wife told us what/where she wanted the flowers.
Only wish my mother was still living. She died in 1969 with leukemia cancer at the age of 57. Can't take anything for granted. Got to make every day on this earth count for something worthwhile.
My yard is 75' x 175' so I have plenty of space for trees, garden, flowers, and plenty more. Every time we plant something that's just a little more grass that I don't have to mow.(ha)
My wife and I started out our married life 41 years ago living in a rented house before moving into a four-plex apartment in Lawrence, Ks. We rented a home for three more years in Kansas City, MO and then in 1968 we built our present four bedroom home. Told her I was through moving and now she believes me.(ha) Guess you could say we have established roots here in Gladstone, Missouri. I planted all my trees and have seen them all mature. Every thing in my yard I've either planted there or built. This addition was previously a wheat field before our home was built.
It's better to go along with them sometimes rather than to live with them unhappy. I've found that my wife reciprocates in a like manner. For instance...she bought me the out of box Remington 700 BDL in 30-06 last Christmas. I'd say that was a fair trade off...wouldn't you?(ha)
ox you better appreciate a women like that, she is number1, my mom is still living, and she gets anything she wants from money to yard work from me, as is my wifes mom, you better believe we will do any thing for them, good job ox, my wife has no kids from this marrige of 25 years, I have 1 daughter from a previous marrige
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Here's what we did for Mother's Day today. 
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