Re: Gifts for gardeners/humor

Silly or functional? You be the judge ...

Last Christmas my grandchildren gave me a PooPet for my iris beds.

For those of you not in the know, PooPets are animal figures (mine was a
duck) "molded by Amish craftsmen from sanitized, deodorized 100% cow
manure.  They will feed your plants for up to two years while providing
fertile ground for garden variety humor."  (Quote is from the Plow and
Hearth catalog which sells the Dung Bunny or Toad Stool but not my Compost
Quacker.)

Quacker is a little rough around the edges after a summer in the iris bed.
I'm sure his loss is the irises' gain.

The grandchildren were very proud of themselves for having found a
functional, practical gift (except where irises are concerned I have a
reputation for being a very practical person) that related, more or less,
to two of my hobbies--iris growing and bird watching. :-)

You might be a redneck irisarian if you get a PooPet for your iris beds
for Christmas?

Lois Rose, in central Virginia
25 mi. SW of Fredericksburg in southern Spotsylvania County
on a little hill overlooking my murky farm pond in the middle of 50 acres
Zone 7; peak TB bloom May 15
(I have no idea what my average temp or first and last frost dates are)
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