CABIN FEVER

CABIN FEVER! After all the years I spent in hospitals and nursing homes you'd think I'd be inured to cabin fever, especially since less than a month ago we'd traveled to Washington, DC in order visit our son. You'd be wrong !! After a week of reasonable weather I need some escape.

Grandma suggested the "S0RTICULTURE" exhibit that was happening at a local park. Essentially a once a year outdoor garden show it served the purpose of getting out of the house.

Gardening and Painting

Joy and concentration radiated from her while diligently doing what can only be described as a very important job. She didn't know it but important jobs are scarce and she was lucky to have this one. Fortunately it didn't matter because she did it for the pure delight she felt while helping tend the garden.

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Lettuce not Forget

It started by necessity and ended in ignominy. In my defense I point out that we were student poor and had to get food somehow or abandon our dreams of a college education. Besides it wasn't such a bad idea. It's just the execution that was somewhat flawed.

Early in our married life my wife worked to enable me to attend school. By early I mean literally we were poor. Indeed had they had such statistics back then we would have scraped the bottom of the poverty barrel. We were always struggling to buy not just school supplies but such basic necessities as food and housing. Consequently we were ever on the lookout for ways to save money and one particularly enticing idea was to plant a garden.