May 1, 2015
Good rainy morning from Collegeville,
It would be nice if it would rain all day. We need the moisture. Years ago I got interested in gardening because of my brother-in-law, Jackie. Jackie grew up on a farm and gardening was not a hobby, it was a matter of survival. When they sold the farm in 1971 and moved to town, Jackie convinced the members of the church next door to let him till up a plot of ground west of the old parsonage so he and his parents could continue growing the fresh vegetable that they were used to enjoying.
Jackie had bad knees and so he bought a Yamaha three wheeler and he did his gardening from that. By June, his garden was overrun with weeds, but it still produced. As his arthritis got worse, I offered to do some tilling for him on a weekend. The next time I came by, he growled something about how many vegetable seedlings I had destroyed. My only defense was that the rows were not straight and as a “town kid”, I was not schooled in knowing which were weeds and which were plants. The next spring, I introduced the idea of stakes spaced three feet apart and string. Yesterday, I planted the first two rows of with Yukon Gold potatoes. Love those Yukon Golds, in rows exactly three feet apart.
The APHC show this week is a live broadcast from the Sauder Concert Hall in Goshen, Indiana. It is a singing show from a big town with a rich tradition of harmony and participation in song. The hometown Goshen College Chamber Choir will perform both sacred and secular pieces. Garrison is hoping to entice the audience to sing along. Indianapolis-born sister duo Lily and Madeleine will sing in breathtaking sibling harmony their songs of longing, heartache and paradise found. National Mandolin Champion Ethan Setiawan will perform along with the Royal Academy of Radio Actors and the regular cast of characters. Enjoy the show.
“You will never find a better sparring partner than adversity” Golda Meir
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