My grandmother has been gone many years now. She passed in her 90's...but I always think of her in the spring because she was such an avid gardener. She loved to pull weeds and fortunately I am married to a wonderful gardener wife who also loves to pull weeds. :O)
Anyway my grandmother who we called Big Mama, ( she weighed a hundred dripping wet) was talking to my brother one day as he was leaving to go to a local gym. He was telling her about how it was a bargin for what he was paying.
She looked at him in disbelief and said " you actually pay someone to exercise?! Darn...I'll pay you to exercise...start pulling weeds!
I only have a few items left of Big Mama's but my favorite or the royal purple Irises that came to Texas via covered wagon many years ago. my wife and I have kept the bulbs going every year for twenty years and intend to hand them down to my grandmothers great -great grand kids. ....which means they originated with their great-great-great-great grandmother!
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