#12

I weeded our garden area and the dirt looks fresh, ready for some plants. We have six empty pots sitting on our doorstop, prepped for flowers. But we do not right now have the resources for plants. I am grateful for this, because it make you pray for things like free plants, and also because it makes you think things to yourself, like how clever of a crime it would be to go out at night with a shovel and steal all your neighbors' plants.

Turns out such a thing was a regular occurrence in Russia - whenever the government would plant flowers, everyone would come and steal them, because they had no money to buy flowers of their own. The government stopped planting flowers, which is sort of a sad resolution.