just in case

just in case you thought

i might be prone to exageration,

i can be, i often am,

but not about this...

nacho as my witness...

the wisteria

one day this spring i went into my pantry and i thought there was a curl of paper, like the kind you get when you open a package of food, poking out of a drawer.  when i bent to pick it up i realized that the wisteria that covers my pergola had grown under the deck, over the sill plate and into the house. i laughed so hard.  when i showed my husband he shook his head slowly, knowing he was going to have to deal with the invasion. 

truthfully, that made me laugh even harder.  that's wrong, right?

wisteria reaches for the house, curling against the screen of our second floor bedroom.  it grabs at the garage.  i'm not sure that it doesn't swallow the occasional bird.  i am sure that it is beautiful and lush and cooling in this heat-wavy summer.  and even though my husband dislikes it with a passion, he prunes it and beats it back without hurting it too bad.  and he does that just for me.