George Shirley wrote:
> Reg wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> I probably should mention that thirty years later John and I are still
> good friends and we both still garden. He in Ohio and me in Louisiana.
> We actually only live exactly 33 miles from where we started our
> married life but traveled the world in between those last two moves.
> I'm glad you enjoyed the post, at my age short term memory is
> fleeting but things that happened 30, 40, 50 years ago are clear.
> <VBG>

It was indeed a lovely post)) Incidentally, someone (I think it might
have been Dora) who said, she remembers the war years very well but can't
remember why she went to the fridge)