Northeast Gardening: February's Coffee in April!!!!, 1 by grampapa

grampapa wrote:
and yesterday my very best friend since we were 15 came (she was working Saturday) and brought HER very good friend, who is a lovely person. they brought a beautiful bouquet of mini carnations, a jar of my favorite applesauce, pickles and fancy breakfast cocoa. that's how well she knows me :0)

so it was like a whole new birthday! and there was plenty of cake left. gave them a tour of my new gardens. my friend was widowed a few years ago and her DH, who we were also close friends with had given her a Double Delight rose on one of their anniversaries. She told me recently when we were talking about my rose garden that it had died on her one winter. So I ordered one for her when I was ordering my roses for my new garden. Should be here this week. I'm going to dedicate the Double Delight in my garden to our friendship (we once had a bowling team called 'Close Friends').