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[vfem]

I think this one reminds me of the times:

No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.
~ Henry Ford

 

[Collector]

Gadening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.
Unknown


Plant carrots in January and you will never have to eat carrots.
Unknown

 

[hoodat]

Everyone will eat a peck of dirt in their lifetime.

I think I posted this story before but that saying reminds me of my grandfather. My grandmother cooked some spinach and didn't get all the grit washed out. When grandpa complained she said,"Aw Charlie, everyone has to eat a peck of dirt before they die", to which grandpa replied, "Do I have to eat it all at one sitting"?

 

[Collector]

Everyone will eat a peck of dirt in their lifetime.

I think I posted this story before but that saying reminds me of my grandfather. My grandmother cooked some spinach and didn't get all the grit washed out. When grandpa complained she said,"Aw Charlie, everyone has to eat a peck of dirt before they die", to which grandpa replied, "Do I have to eat it all at one sitting"?

hoodat that is funny reminds me of both of my g- pas they would have said something like that also.

 

[jojo54]

Everyone will eat a peck of dirt in their lifetime.

I think I posted this story before but that saying reminds me of my grandfather. My grandmother cooked some spinach and didn't get all the grit washed out. When grandpa complained she said,"Aw Charlie, everyone has to eat a peck of dirt before they die", to which grandpa replied, "Do I have to eat it all at one sitting"?

Have to love the things our gparents said. :rainbow-sun

 

[LVVCHAP]

My neighbor always told me that a crooked row in your garden will hold more plants.

 

[Ladyhawke1]

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. - Joseph Campbell

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul. - Walt Whitman quotes ( Poet, 1819-1892) :watering

 

[digitS']

I just read this and, tho' Deepak Chopra is talking about life, would I be so wrong to think of his "field" as a garden?

Life is a field of unlimited possibilities. ~ Deepak Chopra



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[hoodat]

I've always heard the term "In the clover" meaning living a life of ease but I only recently found out where the term came from. Many farmers plant a crop of clover at the end of the growing season as a cover crop or as pasture for their herd animals. When they are "In the clover", it means that the harvest is finished and they could relax a bit till next Spring.

 

[Kim_NC]

"Tough row to hoe" - guess that's the opposite of "In the clover" :happy_flower