Gold leaf

Yesterday I harvested the first fruits of my labor.  Actually it was the second harvest.  Four hungry caterpillars got to the cabbage first.  Guess they are organic savvy, going green and all, and proving you are what you eat.  They were exactly the same color as the cabbage!  If that’s the case, maybe they did me a favor.

I grabbed a pair of scissors, those little safety kids’ pair that keep your fingers intact (can’t be too careful since last Rosh Hashanah), and marched out to the colorful growing (except for the cabbage) garden.  I snipped a couple of leaves from the green and red romaine lettuce plants for my tuna sandwich. 

Let’s see five leaves.  I calculated in my head.  Based on the $325 price tag for the “clean dirt” in the organic gardening boxes, that’s a pretty hefty price for five leaves of lettuce.  More like gold leafed.   I’m counting on a bumper crop of corn to break even. 

I’d been babysitting two peaches (and I don’t mean my grandkids).  I mean my cute dwarf peach tree expecting twins.  Right on top were two of the most perfectly formed fruits (the only two on the whole 2′ tall tree.)  Then today I went outside and they were missing!  Without a trace.  Fred, the large neighborhood cigar smoking, squirrel stole my two peaches.  Since he’s eating the fruits of my labor, I might as well adopt him.

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