Posted on 02/13/2008 7:18:25 PM PST by Soaring Feather
We had a Victory Garden as well. WIth all of the current landscape being torn up to place houses literaly on top of one another, I do not think that Victory Gardens would be common place like they were should they be needed. Sad!
Our city has set aside an area for Community Gardening. I think cities are doing more of this as people wish to grow their own-well some do.
I can garden in pots, but don’t.
Everybody needs a break once in a while and actually to me the fact you are indecisive about staying in the States or going back to Iraq is good news about Iraq.
You’ve been over there for how long now, five years or more? Do have an assessment to offer about life and progress in the area?
The first good sign that happened here was the rapidity at which Iraqi males changed into western dress after Hussein was hanged. That changed must be an expression of an attitude adjustment . . .
In this day and age, there are too many vandals that do not care about other peoples hardwork or belongings.
Yupper, so true.
Years ago, in the Italian part of town, there were huge gardens straight up to the curb -they were behind chain link fences for the most part. Those folks had beautiful gardens and grew a huge amount of crops in the little space.
I can understand why Father’s Day is hard..God bless your mother for being so hardworking and resourceful for you kids. Those war years aand the Great Depression were difficult times..I cannot imagine the added hardship of being without my dad.
More or less yes, my grandparents gave the cow to mom, we had chickens, too, and raised some pigs for butcher.
My beloved Mom was an angel with Iron Gloves. She was tough as nails and soft as velvet. She was beautiful, her laughter sounded like bells chiming. She remained beautiful until the day she died. She was a good woman.
She had what the Finns call SISU, it means guts, I have my share too. ;0)
And that makes you different today than any other day?
Oh my, I didn’t think you noticed! LOL
Paging Tomkow6, are you out there lurking, huh, huh??
I guess the open spaces around newer developments would be turned into community gardens in an emergency. Having a garden was always common in the small towns where I grew up..My husband and I had one at our last home. There was a space out of sight behind the garage we dug up...a tough go in that black clay soil N of Dallas. The plum tomatoes spoiled me forever. My DIL ate them like grapes.
Indeed!
More than four years now. (YEEEESH!)
Do you have an assessment to offer about life and progress in the area?
I have finally begun writing my book. There is so much material to cover - bad times and good times. I believe there will be a happy ending. :-)
The first good sign that happened here was the rapidity at which Iraqi males changed into western dress after Hussein was hanged. That changed must be an expression of an attitude adjustment . .
It took a while, since they had been pretty much a brainwashed society for decades, but they finally realized that we are the good guys. That was the turning point and the progress has accelerated since then. Once the coalition and the Iraqis had a common goal, it became much easier to achieve this.
It's chugging right along now and if we can keep the Democrats from derailing this, it will be quite the amazing success story.
My parents were city sorts of folks who moved to the country because of me, wanting to raise their kids there for some reason, so they didn’t know much about rural living when they bought two acres way out in the boonies.
Parts of the family moved into our neighborhood and one decided to try raising chickens. That began coming to an end when he tried to kill his first one with a bunch of us little kids around. Some of us were grossed out before we started chasing the headless bird while unc looked on completely dejected.
I tried not to watch what it took to get them from the chicken yard to the point of plucking the feathers..The chickens were my responsibility to feed and water.
WHY?
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