The neighbour provides for good Saturday morning entertainment and education.<\/p>\n
He has a tangerine tree in the back yard and for the last two winters has been donating a bag or two of the fruit to our household.<\/p>\n
Grandboy and I are eating some, and picking out the seeds. Therein starts a vital lesson in survivalist theory: How To Grow Food From Seed.<\/p>\n
The littleun drops our bowl of seeds on the ground and laments the fact that they’ve gotten dirty.<\/p>\n
“That’s ok”, I said, “they’re going into the dirt anyways”.<\/p>\n
“Ooooohhh I get it, haha they’ll be all dirty” was the reply.<\/p>\n
So he pokes his skinny little kid finger in a planter I’m using to keep LAST year’s seedlings alive and pops the seeds in there, covers them up and we water them.<\/p>\n
And then sits there for a few minutes encouraging them to grow. These sounds can be heard from the kitchen while I’m tidying things up:<\/p>\n
“Go little seed grow grow!”<\/p>\n
“C’mon you can do it”<\/p>\n
“Gwampa why they not grow? Are they sick?”<\/p>\n
The concept of “A Long Time” is yet to be learned \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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