Wonderful to have you here on a day when everything is ‘comin’ up ROSES.
We have a sturdy little rose bush in our front yard out next to the road. I wonder that it hasn’t been smashed by an errant car or something. It’s just blooming its little heads off… Actually I would love to cut some blossoms from it and bring them in to Barbara who loves flowers so much. The problem is this is not the long-stem kind of glamour roses. The blossoms – or whatever the proper name for a rose gardener to use – are lovely in themselves. But I can’t see them in a vase with their rather short stems and not too large blossoms.
Perhaps when I get rich enough to buy a Kindle I can figure out how to get the most out of the little bush. Last summer I watered it regularly (we had a really Dry Summer) and I didn’t want the little ‘volunteer-but-lonesome’ plant to feel left out. Last summer and fall I kept it trimmed in my unintelligent way about roses – hoping the stems would be longer this year. I guess I really don’t know what I’m doing. I kept it watered and the small bed of Impatiens Barb and I managed.) We’re just starting on that this year.
My Dad – who graduated from
But I did help with cutting back trees and shrubs… (actually I piled the brush) … he figured out which ones ought to go. And he loved to grow asparagus in the shade of the backyard garage. I loved to eat the tender little spears… Don’t let ‘em get too big or they become stringy.
I guess I picked up a little agricultural knowledge… it just sort of rubbed off. Don’t cut the grass too short… it’s better to let the clippings get back on the ground and enrich the soil again etc. We had no livestock to replenish our manure pile… I guess that was easy on me and didn’t help the yard much. Dad was a Rwy Mail clerk so he was away a lot of days… but in the summer time he was home enough to get the planting done… and get me instructed on weeding and hoeing etc… but I must say I just was not as attentive as I now which I had been. House building stopped during WWII – so we had our choice of a LOT OF GROUND in which to grow veggies etc. in a REAL VICTORY garden. I just don’t remember a lot about how to do it.
My farm-wise cousins would have loved to work with him more – but we lived some considerable distances away from our relative farmers… and on a ‘real’ farm I wouldn’t have been much help anyway. But it’s nice to think back on those things. Whattya think?
Looks like our political season is upon us in a ‘starting gate’ way – ready or not. Probably doesn’t mean a lot… but it makes one weary and rather tired of it all – so I pity the candidates that are trying to light the fires… and we turn out to be wet wood. Maybe we’ll get better in a HOT summer.
God bless you all over this weekend. Thanks for your prayers…I pray for you also.
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack and Barbara
“JUST A MINUTE”
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ‘MR. COOL CONGENIALITY?
Just a Minute: Dan Henninger, deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page, declares the Obama of 2011 is a very different animal than the one which was selected as the candidate for President in 2008. He further states the ’08 model was, “… engaging, open, optimistic and a self-identified conciliator.” Whereas the Obama 2011 edition has been “…testy, petulant, Impatient, arrogant and increasingly a divider.” That’s quite a change!
Example One – as recently as Monday, wrapping up an interview with a Dallas TV reporter – Mr. Obama said in what Mr. Henninger describes as a ‘snappish tone’ into what he obviously thought was a ‘dead’ mike: “Let me finish my answers the next time we do an interview, all right?”
And in
Question: Does the American public get the same idea? Mr. Gallup reports something north of 60% or so do.
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