George Shirley wrote:

> When we lived in Texas, where I grew up and our kids still live, we had
> a large garden. We also had a good friend and neighbor who also had a
> large garden. We synchronized our trips so the other could take care of
> the garden and for that chore he got to harvest what came in. My
> favorite time we did that is when his huge thornless blackberry patch
> all ripened in one week. My word, we made blackberry jelly, jam, put it
> in the freezer, made cobblers every night for dinner, even made about
> ten gallons of blackberry wine. I think John's favorite time was when
> our tomatoes all got ripe while we were gone, he loved those things and
> about made himself and his whole family sick eating them. Not to mention
> canning a ton of them. We had fifty tomato plants that year and it was a
> good year for tomatoes.
>
> Sigh! We miss that garden and that old house of ours but someone else
> lives there now and they don't even garden, just mow everything like a
> park. Good memories come out of gardening and then putting the food by
> you grew.
>
> George, off to bed after a long day of doing nothing

I'm speechless. What a picture you paint.

Thanks for posting.

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Reg