Tuesday, June 9, 2009

The beginnings of the crops are already sprouting!

How many days has it actually been? We are now in the reality of crops sticking their tiny little heads from beneath the earth; at least the radishes and mixed lettuces are!
We are now farmers in the truest sense of all that entails, which is a huge responsibility!
Yes, we will be feeding ourselves and perhaps with our overabundances of veggies we may even feed a small portion of the masses, friends, relatives and neighbors; who knows. The possibilities are endless! At least I believe that it would be so nice to have enough to have it all spill over to be able to do that.

Any-who, we are not as generous as we once were. Perhaps over the years we have become jaded, due to people being people and not always doing what you expect them to do.

Years ago, about thirty odd, we offered our home to a homeless person, not a vagrant, a person my husband worked with and he was homeless due to a spousal fight, and he robbed us. I even offered my car to a neighbor that used it relentlessly and therefore I wasn’t able to when I needed it; I found myself negotiating my own use of my own car.

Too trusting we were, but we did stop for awhile but foolishly we forgot about those incidences and again did silly things in the name of generosity and trust in others good nature, but unfortunately again we were taken, and so even though we are not that old and have been volunteers for many organizations in a nearly over forty year period we are cautious who we allow to come into our sanctity and open bigheartedness. As my Dad always said I would rather believe in the goodness of mankind than to think that people are bad, and he would say that 99% were good. And so I too would like very much to think that way.

This veggie thing may turn into not much, but if it does I would like to think that sharing would be a large part of our agenda, better that than to let fresh food go bad. We used to share our fruit from our trees with the seniors that I taught Aquacize to, and my husband brought quite a bit to work, and even one of his co-workers had cattle that took the overripe fruits, but harvesting them became quite difficult as we got physically unable to. Due to the hurricane we don’t have nearly as much as we once had, we lost our orange tree and the grapefruit tree didn’t do too well, the lemon finally came back but our Key-lime is still not there. We replaced our orange with a tangelo, and we also put in a Crape Myrtle and Verbena, but they are not fruit trees, purposely, fruit trees are too much work. I have a new respect for migrant workers from all the harvesting we initially did when we had all those fruited ones.

Now on that enlightening note I will wish you all a good night and to all count those blessings and I will too!

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