OT:More tales of missing plants

In a message dated 7/1/2002 10:24:05 AM Central Daylight Time, 
tan0301@yahoo.com writes:

<< It 
 > is a change in the attitude of too many Americans. >>

They've always been around, but we hear more about them now that news spreads 
so fast.  And there are more people so there are more incidence.  

Remember how I brought home irises from the neighbors, freely given, when I 
was 14.  Well, when I got married and moved to the big bad city, St. Louis, I 
missed the country and plants so much that I would buy bedding plants at the 
grocery store and take them back to the country for Mom to grow.  That way I 
could see them on weekends that we went home.  I picked up a number of 
Peonies for about 70 cents each.  One pink had blooms as large as a dinner 
plate, and Mom was especially fond of it.  She had planted it against the 
house at the Southeast corner.   

Everything went fine and the clump grew well.  Then my parents started going 
away each summer, June thru August.  It was only a couple of years until she 
came home one fall to find a large hole and nothing else at the corner of the 
house.  She eventually lost all of her favorite plants.  People knew she 
still lived there for 9 months of the year.  They knew it wasn't abandoned.  
Some of the neighbors were even involved.

I wouldn't be surprised to find things missing when I come home at night from 
work.  The very people who love looking at my garden could be the same ones 
that "help themselves."  I would be sad, but not surprised.  

Betty Wilkerson Zone 7 south-central Kentucky

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