What's Looking Good in May 2024

[Tetters]

I feel a bit inadequate posting mostly greenery.
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Well I have always liked your photography. You have a good eye with the camera, and I like green too - very much.

 

[Tetters]

Grandparents homestead was in the hills south of Ava, Missouri.

Grandmother brought 18 children into this World starting at the age of 14 or so I was told!

Amazing woman...she forgot more about gardening than I will ever know.

My grandmother gave birth to my father when she was fourteen, but she only managed 8 children and two of those died of consumption at the ages of 6 and 18 months.
I cannot imagine having 18 - three was quite enough for me.

 

[Meadowlark]

They actually needed children growing up to help with the work on the homestead back then...no tractors or machinery to help them live off the land.

I wish I had paid more attention to the methods they used to grow and especially preserve food. Too bad youth is wasted on the young.

I do remember a root cellar which was a magical place full of all kinds of jars of food...and a huge crosscut two person saw they used for felling trees. You don't know what work is until you cut down a big hickory tree with a two person crosscut.

 

[Tetters]

The Western nations need children now, but one way or another it is being discouraged - sadly.

 

[Meadowlark]

The Western nations need children now, but one way or another it is being discouraged - sadly.

We need better parenting first. When I see what college students are doing on America's campus today it makes me sick.

 

[Tetters]

The incoming population are having loads of children, and they are using our young women to produce their offspring. There will be trouble ahead, as the song goes....

 

[gary350]

Rain every day. Potato plants like this.

 

[Esther Knapicius]