Small town

Yesterday, a lovely Saturday, Mike and I hopped on the motorcycles and went for a little bit longer ride. This was the longest ride he had gone on since having his groin surgery. It went very well. The ride part of the trip, anyway.

Our purpose yesterday was to place some flowers at his mother and grandmother's graves.We went yesterday as we will be on our way back from New Mexico next week for actual calendar Mothers Day.

The plan was to go to Pittsburg, Texas, where there were several flower shops listed. Find such flower shop and purchase a couple of nice arrangements. Then go on out to the cemetery and place those flowers. That part didn't go so well. We found a couple of flower shops, both closed on Sutrday afternoon. We had certainly not anticipated that there would not be any flower shops open on a Saturday afternoon, only a week before Mothers Day. We were disappointed. Fortunately, we found a grocery store with a small amount of fresh flowers. We got a couple of small boquets of roses, one red for Mike's mother and one pink for his grandmother.

Pittsburg, Texas, the home of Bo Pilgrim and Pilgrims Pride chicken products. A small but decent sized town in east Texas. I am pretty sure that in Grants, where we are moving to, finding a flower shop open on Saturday would have been fairly easy. But then again, I am not there to check this out. I know that years ago they were always open on Saturdays. Maybe people just don't purchase flowers as often as they did back then. Maybe some people prefer to get their floral arrangements at the local Wal-Mart or grocery store.

I do no know the reasoning behind a flower shop not being open on  Saturday but would hope that once I get back to Grants, if a need for flowers should arise, I would be able to find them , not only at the Wal-Mart but a real flower shop;.