Thief!

A thief came our way recently, quietly, secretly, stupidly. They stole part of a plant that I was growing in our front yard. I'll bet this kind of thing happens frequently around here. The wife  & I have walked up and down most of the streets here on our little island, and there are some really beautiful plants and landscaping in some folks front yards. I have even entertained the idea of pilfering something myself from someone else's yard, but haven't. I didn't think it would be very nice, and I'd like to think of myself as a nice person. 

But some not-so-nice person snipped off a flower stalk from a plumeria plant in my front yard. And it's not like the plant is bordering the street and easy to snip. You have to walk about 30' onto my property to get to that plant, halfway up my driveway. Funny thing is, I had been looking for the first flower stalk on these plants and had noticed the new flower stalk the day before. Even took a picture of it. The next morning I was taking out the trash and glanced over at it and noticed the flower stalk was gone! It wasn't lying on the ground close to the plant anywhere, and there were no newly-fallen palm fronds that can slash your face or take your arm off if you're not paying attention. 

It was the only one out of the 4 plumerias in that spot that had formed a flower stalk, and it was the only flower stalk on that plant. That stalk had about 20 buds on it already, but hadn't bloomed yet. It was going to be glorious. I don't know how familiar you are with plumeria flowers, but this one, a Singapore White, has a simply heavenly fragrance that can take me right back to Hawaii. Just a wonderful aroma. Indescribably awesome. 

As far as I know, you cannot force an un-bloomed plumeria flower stalk to bloom. Putting it in water won't work. Putting it in soil won't work. So this ... person ruined a perfectly fine flower stalk. For no good reason. Because stupid? Makes me think it was a Trumper, but that's a cop-out. Not all Trumpers are thieves. Brainless, sure, but probably not thieves.

I grow plumerias and have lots of them in the back yard in all stages of growth and blooming. I would have happily given one to this ... person if they'd asked. 

In the grand scheme of things, it's not that big of a deal, right? Duh. Like I said, I have a lot of them in the back yard, which fortunately no one has invaded. Yet. But it still bugs me. On the bright side, the last time we had criminals visit our property (in Houston) they took their time, trashed everything in the house and stole all my underwear!! Didn't take my wife's underwear. Even took the ceiling fans. And took the pillow cases off of our pillows so they could stuff them full of loot. Left the pillows, though. So this theft is pretty, uh, minor. 

Still...assholes!