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05/26/2003 Archived Entry: "SPRING CLEAN UP"

SPRING CLEAN UP

This has been a long week of spring cleanup. It’s very nice to have two willing grandsons who lend muscle to some difficult chores to help “the elderly”. Once those chores were very routine for us, but time takes its toll.

Have you noticed how much stronger kids are these days? They go to conditioning early every morning to lift weights and run. The two who help me are nothing but muscle and bone (how delightful it would be to be like that!). They are trying to “bulk up” this summer, as they say. That means they are eating all the time too.

Anyway, the thing about tending to plants is that as they grow, they need larger and larger pots. And they get heavier. Even the boys can only barely budge the pot the century plant is in. It has a large part of the century to keep growing so I don’t know what the future holds for it. I wonder what happened to the century plant that was about 8 feet tall that lived in the nursery south of Lyons? The nursery is no more, but maybe the plant found a new happy home. I wonder about it.

Morfords are closing out some of their plants at greatly reduced prices. We took advantage of that yesterday and planted more things of beauty around the house. Mrs. Morford gave me some larkspur out of her garden which Tyler planted for me in ours. My grandmother always had larkspur around her house and it is sort of special to me in that regard. I’ve just never had any luck getting it to grow here.

We also bought more of their eggs…those pretty little pastel blue and green ones that my friend in England steadfastly denies exist.

All this is to say, I'm getting a hold on the plants and clutter and making some headway. It always feels good this time of year to clean things up that seem to accumulate during the winter. What I need most of all is for three offspring to come claim what they want out of this house and take it home with them. The other alternative is to wait a few years and just let Tyler come take it over. For many years now, it has been "his" house too.