"Do you guys have any books here?"

Today was a pretty slow Monday morning, but I had just finished reading to the second grade class and was opening the inter-library loan bags when the door opened and someone came right in and asked the question, "Do you guys have any books here?" Bonnie went to help him, and I looked up to see a handsome man in a junky green sweatshirt with messy brown hair standing at the counter with a smirk on his face.

"Hey!! What're you doing here!" I was so excited I couldn't get my words out correctly, "Bonnie this is my TJ! I mean, this is my boyfriend TJ!"

It was a wonderful surprise. He was stopping in Conrad to get some maps for the pivot project he was going to be working on that day. He had to be out there in fifteen minutes but made a quick stop at the library to see if we had any books. Now that I think of it, he left without even looking.

This afternoon I was outside cleaning out the layers of dead leaves and overgrown trees. I have visions of what I would like to do in the backyard and I've already purchased many flower seeds. It is going to be a lot of work though and I'm not sure that I have that great of desire and dedication. Yet when I'm out there, I want to transform it. Well, my yard seemed to catch on to my dreams and has already surprised me by popping out dainty little yellow flowers all over the ground. Even in patches were there is no grass, the resilient flower found a way to produce a bundle together. They are always together, not just one flower by itself, but in a bunch. I can almost hear them talking to each other. I think they have high-pitched voices and cheerful things to say.

 If it was any other yard, I'm sure I would wonder at the flowers and why someone hadn't weeded them out from the grass. But I am understanding it to be a gesture of kindness and their funny bright faces don't bother me. Maybe it's an omen of great things to come in my little fenced-in yard.

Free Yellow Flowers