Bedraggled

Now finally three weeks late, all the buds have opened. But another full day of rain from morning till night with cold temperatures made it look like this. Only two days open but the constant rain gives the white petals brown edges.

A really good workout around noon and the punctual delivery and installation of our new appliances made me happy. As a little extra, the ordered microwave also came today although it was announced for the 26th. A perfect size for the limited countertop space.
The ordered planter boxes with self watering feature and trellis, shipped from Shenzen in China 20 days ago, apparently have been delivered , but not to us and nobody knows the shipping company.
65 $ for two big wooden boxes, two trellises and the plastic inserts for the self watering feature, that is too good to be true. 35 per piece. And for that , the material has been bought or produced, hardworking people built the boxes, welded the trellises , packed it and transported it on the big freighters?
Then it would be shipped from China to Oregon ? And all that would still produce a gain for the company?
That was an offer too good to be true.
So I lost 70$.

But the weather is so cold that I was not able to plant anything so far.