Memories

I'll never forget...

• Fertilizer on the feet and water drops on the head to make us grow.
• Crawling into the dog pen to play with the hunting dogs -- Lady, Beauty and Rock.
• A long day at the hunting trailer somewhere in New York.
• Helping Uncle John pick carrots -- huge carrots -- that had wintered over underground.
• The yearly tarring of the driveway, and walking the planks between the driveway edges and the garage.
• Sitting in folding chairs in the shade of the garage listening to Uncle John's stories from the past.
• Sitting in the little breakfast nook after kindergarten, waiting for Mommy and Daddy to come home.
• Wrapping the fig tree in winter clothes and enjoying the summer fruits (except for the fig jam Daddy insisted on preparing one year).
• Picking birthday pie apples from the ground beneath the old apple trees.
• Uncle John on his lawnmower.
• Planting a maple sapling that Uncle John swore he would never see any shade from.