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Trying to Make a Green Thumb 5/30/23

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Can I be candid with you for a moment? Not that I have been false with you before, but I am about to be really transparent with you.

I have NEVER been very good at gardening. There I said it. Wendy was always the gardener on the homestead. I also benefited from my father Pa's prowess as a botanist. He wasn't a scientist, Ph.D., or went to school for it botanist, but the man could plant and grow a garden that would be the envy of many a farmer.

I hated gardening when I was growing up. I would fight tooth and nail to get out of it. I literally spent more time and energy fighting Pa and trying to get out of it than it would have taken me to just do what he asked and weeded for a little bit.

Yes, in the words of the immortal Spongebob Squarepants, I was and am a "GOOFEY GOOBER".

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