Re: [nafex] Digest Number 1057

["Pete Benfield" <pete@cmpsource.com>]

Gardening in Our Blood
>                   By Jean Little
>
> When autumn time arrived last year,
> I said, "I've really had it, dear!
> I've raked and hoed and picked and canned;
> Just see that callus on my hand!
> You know what I've been thinking, dear?
> Let's let our garden go next year.
> We'll buy all those things in the store -
> They wouldn't cost us too much more.
> When summer comes I'll sleep till ten,
> Get up and clean the house, and then
> I'll make a glass of lemonade
> and go and sit beneath the shade.
> When you come home at night from work,
> I'll put the coffee on to perk,
> Then we'll sit down and talk or read
> And never think of garden seed."
> Remember how you smiled and said,
> "I think you've really used your head
> To save us all this work next year.
> I'm sick of gardening, too, my dear."
>
> But then one day, the sky was blue,
> The sun was warm, the tulips grew.
> The April days grew long and free,
> The ground lay waiting patiently.
> The sleeping grass awoke to green,
> And then in every magazine
> Were ads for bulbs and plants and seeds -
> In fact, for all your gardening needs.
> One day you picked me up downtown.
> With bundles I was loaded down.
> No need to try and hide the facts
> With "Burpee Seeds" stamped on the sacks.
> Remember how your face got red
> And how you turned away and said,
> "When we've unloaded all that junk,
> I have a few things in the trunk.
> I'll need some help, for it is hot
> And seed potatoes weigh a lot."
>
> So now we stand here, hand in hand
> And gaze at our productive land.
> The berry beds are weeded clean,
> The vegetables are tall and green.
> We love our land in drought or mud,
> For we have gardening in our blood.





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