I don't know whether this is due to some sort of New Year inspired largess, or if I am just an easy mark for locally grown tulips, but I have been buying flowers. Let me revise that; I have been buying flowers for myself. Big E, quick on the uptake, added to this tulip spree last week, but now that he is house bound I have taken up the slack myself. My splurge this week is a bunch of yellow, orange, and green parrot tulips. They are an ever changing bright spot on our dining room table, and they make us very happy. (By "us", I of course mean "ME".)