Re: Gardening and Remembrance
Hi, Don,
Thanks for sharing that remembrance with us. Made me think of the
number of times my four boys (now men) played in the mud in our
unfinished back yard. When I'm gone, I hope they'll have as fond
memories of me as you have of your grandmother.
Betty (in cold, rainy Delta, BC)
I remembered a
> day many years ago when I was visiting my grandmother in a small town
> in central Iowa. There was a large mud puddle in front of her house
> and being only about 7 years old, I proceeded to get myself pretty
> well saturated in some of Iowa's Finest (MUD).
>
> Mom's now in a nursing home now and hasn't been able to recognize for
> me for several years (the Big "A"), but somehow I think that if she
> had seen me this afternoon, she might have said something like: "My
> God, Donald Robert, you're almost <fill in the blank> years old, and
> you're still playing in the mud!"
>
> How I wish I could hear her say it.
>
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