Farm Girl oozed charmingly through the
Shed’s garden side doorway. She tugged off her earth stained gloves and tossed
them in the corner. She approached the lopsided picnic table where Uncle Mac
was using his lap top to study potential first round draft picks for the Green
Bay packers in the upcoming NFL draft.
He noticed Farm Girls angst.
“What?”
“The spinach is stuck.” She said.
“Stuck?” said Unc
“The beets becalmed, the chard is
checked, the kale, comatose, the radishes reluctant and as for the turnips!”
“What about the turnips?”
“Torpid!” said Farm Girl.
“Say it ain’t so!”
“It ain’t so”, said Vida G, entering
through the same doorway which FG had used. “But I’m afraid it is all true. The
veggies are kaput.”
She was looking unusually sweet, clad
in cute sandals, spray on jeans and a lightweight pink sweatshirt captioned “Born
to Jiggle.”
“Is kaput a real word?” asked Uncle M.
“Yeah kinda”, said Vida, “Heepy will
be along directly to correct the spelling. What’s with the lethargic legumes
and the enervated eggplant?”
“Neither of which are planted yet.” observed
Farm Girl.
“I know. I just like illiteration.”
“Alliteration.” said Uncle Mac.
“Not when Vida tries it.” said Farm
Girl.
“Hey!”
“Calm yourselves ladies,” said Uncle
Mac, “all will be well. It is going to rain gently overnight and be sunny and
70° for at least the next three days. That will revive the dormant dill and all
the rest. You’ll see.”
“But”, he waggled an admonitory and
somewhat crooked finger, “it will also perk up the weeds. So I’ll need you two
plus the old battleaxe…”
“I resemble that!” croaked the
haystack.
“…and get Mallory and the Ripper to
help. You’ll be done in no time.”
“And what do you plan on doing while
all this weeding is going on?” asked Vida.
“With any luck, Milly.” Said Uncle M
Farm Girl crossed her arms over her
ample bosom.
“You are, beyond any shadow of a
doubt, the vilest, most degenerate old sod I have ever…” her voice trailed off.
“had the misfortune to meet.” finished
Vida.
“Whut they said.” added the haystack.
4 comments:
All's not a happy home in the shed this week. Sounds like someone is sowing the weeds of discontent, or trying to.
I sure miss everyone's pictures.
I hope you are right and warmer weather comes...I need to start doing something in the garden and I can't do it in the cold rain!
i think i know the reason for all the discontent in the shed...uncle mac is a green bay packers fan!! ;) go lions!
And I used to like Amycita
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