G’day Again…
Here we are on a Monday – starting a new week as the month of May rolls on.
Although there’s been a lot in the way of rain promised locally – not much has actually arrived. It’s easy to tell because the grass does not thrive… and I have to keep watering the Impatiens around the mailbox as newly planted. If I don’t, I fear they won’t make it and what we intended to be attractive will turn out as just a brown patch.
Well… those are often the results of good intentions but bad executions. One thing I remember about my Dad as a gardener… he didn’t want to waste anything. We even had a compost pile in the city. It wasn’t very big and I don’t really think we produced enough compost to make it worth the effort – until apple harvesting and cider makin’ and it grew mightily then – but at least the efforts wasn’t lost on me.
Dad having grown up on a farm in the South… and married a girl from a similar background … was of the “Wear it out.” – “Use it up.” – “Don’t throw away something that could possibly be used for something else.” – school. From the looks of my ‘cubbyhole’ tool room and boxes of things I wonder why I’m saving them… or what I’m saving them for… I think I’m fully enrolled in the same school.
Even on both my grandpa’s farms – one in SC and one in
In our own relatively small family – only five children in the household – we seem to live under the curse that clutter expands and multiplies in direct proportion to fill the available space no matter how much it is. Our youngest daughter is doing her best to make a living as an artist and a designer and manufacturer of… “Famsters”… as well as a painter on fabric… I can’t explain it all… but sometime I’ll post her website and you can go look if you’re so inclined. There’s always a use… we think…
Matter of fact I had a distant cousin – second or third or “once removed” whatever those designations are. She made little costume jewelry dolls out of buttons – as well as doing very attractive water colors… and I don’t know what all… I guess it runs in the family.
Sorry for the ramble… Wednesday may be better. (J)
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
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