Vegetation Vandalism

Today marks the 12th Engage-adversary for the Mayor and the Hobbit Wife.  As the Mayor and Hobbit Wife were sitting on the porch in the sunshine reminiscing, the Mayor noticed that one of the rose bushes had suddenly burst into bloom with flowers that were clearly not roses.

It turns out Ela had picked up fallen blossoms from a neighbor's empress tree and placed them strategically on the rose.

As the Mayor and Hobbit Wife were talking with Ela about engagements, they began laying out the framework of conditions under which Ela could become engaged herself.

1. No long engagements, but...
2. The Mayor and Hobbit Wife will have to have known the young man long enough to know his character, and...
3. He has to have a job, because even Adam had a job before he got married, taking care of the garden..

Ela piped up, "Well, that's not a problem.  I could always just give him a job taking care of my garden and they we could get married whenever we wanted to."

Yikes.  Just yikes.