What You Gonna Do?
Back a few years Old Fuzzy, Young Fuzzy, and I spent sometime doing a bit of mission work in Quebec.
While there we worked with the preacher and his wife, Anne. We were there to help with their work on renovating a shop into a church building.
We stayed at the motel, but ate at Jean and Anne's home for most of the meals. Anne was a bird lover, especially of parrots. She also had a great sense of humor and we shared a few common interests.
She shared with me a link with Victorian Kitchen Gardens. The instigators of the project set out to find an old fashioned "Master, head gardener" who would remember and be familiar with running a Victorian garden and take a sample renovation through a year.
I really liked that show and watched it over and over again while I cut okra that summer. It 'starred' Harry Dodson who had begun his journey as a gardener under the tutelage of his uncle, a true Master gardener back in the late 1800s.
Another interest was our sense of humor, which she combined with her love of parrots/birds.
This was not the video she sent me. The one Anne sent was much longer of the bird singing and dancing as it sang its 'Bad Bird' song.
I wonder at life around us. How can two people standing at the same spot in time see two different views?
How can different people take the same set of circumstances and some succeed where others fail. How does that happen?
I read of a poor black man, his wife left him and their six children. This was back in the day when food stamps first came out. A government woman felt sorry for the man and issued him food stamps.
The man had a large garden from which he fed his family, now he had food stamps, so...
He went to the grocery store and bought a great number of ribs. A couple of the kids were sent to the garden to dig potatoes and whatever else he needed for a barbecue ribs meal. They made fliers and sent some of the kids to pass them out in the community: Barbecue meal, $5.00 a plate, 3:00 P.M to 5:00 P.M.
After several meals like that two things happened. One the government woman found out about it and took away his food stamps, and two, he had made enough money he could now open his own restaurant.
