What is a farm/garden?

I have a secret pal affiliated with my Dear Jane quilt, I received a wonderful gift package from her this week and she spoke of her garden. Where she lives her gardens are growing well. I am not a gardener of flowers or vegetables. I have planted and weeded, fertilized and watered to very little avail. I think we picked 5 tomatoes. Last year I sprinkled some wild flower seeds in my "flower garden" and this year some beautiful black eyed susans did come up. But if I calculated how much money I spend on my plantings each year I would certainly give up.


When I was a little girl in Missouri my father worked 150 miles away from home in the big city of St. Louis, we grew up in the country. Each Friday when it was time to make the drive home he would tell his co- workers or drinking buddies, he was headed to the farm. When asked what he raised, he replied,"Cats,dogs, kids, and h_ll." An appropriate answer.

Several years ago I went to Sears and bought 5 rose bushes $1.00 each. The next morning I worked very hard to plant them before I had to leave for the airport. I dug the holes, fertilized, and watered each one very carefully. I was digging the last hole when my ride arrived. I dropped the bush in the hole, kicked the dirt over it, and said,"This one is yours God, I have to go." You guess it! This was the only one that survived. This rose bush bloomed with the most beautiful, full , huge roses. Each flush of new roses would be a dozen or more. Everyone would ask for cutting from this bush and of course I would share because the name of the rose was 'Peace". God's Peace.

I am not a gardener but I know the Master Gardener and His crop is well tended. We have eight children and the seventh grand baby will be here next month. When asked what I raise I would have to reply Cats, Dogs, Kids, and praises to heaven. I want to plant seeds of anticipation, fertilize creative thought, weed out negativity, and generously pour out love. God will grow the crop, and a bumper crop it is.