Home Depot? They have plants there? Sure. [He smiles] Yeah, I'll go with you. We could probably use more at Monmouth. [Though he has a feeling Kavinsky might pee in them. He shudders] Maybe I'll wait with those.
[Forget Cabeswater. Adam would take the job of killing Kavinsky pro bono if that happened.] They have a garden center, yeah. They should be able to tell us what can survive the winter and what can't. And even if we don't get lucky on new stuff, they have tools.
[It takes a while, but they finally arrive at the store. Adam's been here before for various items, but never with Gansey. As they start to browse the store, he can't help but watch him. Certainly he's been to places like this before, but he still can't imagine him having done so, with how collected and put-together he always seems. It's almost like using a Ken doll for a GI Joe.]
[Gansey has been to home repair stores before, but he tends to stick to the smaller mom and pop shops. Home Depot has never been a place he set foot in] This place is huge. I should pick up some stuff for Monmouth here.
What, you don't like everything being in one concise place? [He smiles, taking the sheers from Adam, opening and closing them] What makes one gardening sheer better than another? [He knows nothing about this stuff. Nothing at all]
Never really gave it much thought, no. Think we should put a separation in there? Maybe we can nail some pieces of wood together. [He's mostly kidding]
This one looks pretty tough. [he opens it, then snaps it shut again]
We'll test it out on Steve later. [He tosses them into the cart, along with various other things needed for garden maintenance and landscaping.] Nursery or bathroom wares first?
Nah. [He starts pushing the cart toward the nursery.] Rubber tree plants are apparently impossible to kill. So I'll stick with things that are already alive before I try to grow something from scratch.
[He nods, following along] I like this hobby. Making things grow. Much better than stamp collecting. It leaves you with a good sense of accomplishment.
He did for a while. But unlike my mother and her plates, he didn't really stick to it. I think he saw the way she was about plates and decided that was too much for him.
I was wondering. Your disdain for stamps is kind of obvious.
[And then they're in the nursery. All kind of plants are there, from young trees down to grass samples and while it's calming, it doesn't feel like how it should be. There's life, but it's only its potential. Having it sectioned off and only thriving to the point of being commercially appealing is almost a disappointment compared to what they experience on a daily basis.]
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[And thus his hobby is found. Watch out, Gansey. Come spring Monmouth is going to look like Oz.]
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Really? Is there a hidden gardener in there we didn't know about?
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[Currently he's inspecting a set of gardening shears, opening and closing the blades before running a finger along one edge to check its sharpness.]
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[He hands him the shears.] What do you think?
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[He shrugs.] You want them to be tough and pretty sharp. Not every plant's going to be easy to cut through.
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This one looks pretty tough. [he opens it, then snaps it shut again]
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We'll test it out on Steve later. [He tosses them into the cart, along with various other things needed for garden maintenance and landscaping.] Nursery or bathroom wares first?
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[He pokes at a few things out of curiosity, but doesn't pick anything up] Nursery. Help me pick out a plant, too?
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[And then they're in the nursery. All kind of plants are there, from young trees down to grass samples and while it's calming, it doesn't feel like how it should be. There's life, but it's only its potential. Having it sectioned off and only thriving to the point of being commercially appealing is almost a disappointment compared to what they experience on a daily basis.]
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