I ordered some seeds and plants last week and totally forgot that they would ship the seeds right away until I noticed part of the order had been charged to my credit card. Oh shoots! They were going to ship it to Colorado right away and I'm not there yet.

UPS has an arrangement with the post office to deliver packages to our mail boxes, but not Fed Ex. Just in case, I called my friend who works at our post office and warned her that a package might come. But that didn't do any good: the seed company emailed today that Fed Ex wasn't able to deliver the package because 'that business is closed for the winter.' That business being my house.

I told them it surprises me that Fed Ex is so caring all of a sudden because even when we ARE there, they won't come down the driveway to the house, they tie the package to the gate up there on the highway where anyone could steal it, and we don't even know it's there until we stumble across it.

I'd figured they'd do the same with this one, and I'd get it when I arrived. So they contacted Fed Ex and told them to re-deliver it on Friday, the day I'm driving to Colorado.

Well, they are not going to find me there, because I won't arrive until late that afternoon, so I hope to heck they tie it to the gate.