God is Enough

Bob's Gardening

"My friend TJ wrote, Their shared passion for things that seemed common to the people was evidence of their partnership. Take gardening, for example, who else updates a growth chart daily for the quantity of squash and cucumbers growth in a season? Speaking of gardening, Bob loved planting a summer vegetable garden. It was a lot of work! Bob would use the tiller to plow up the land. Bob was a perfectionist and that characteristic applied even to gardening!!! We would each take a hoe and facing each other pull the dirt up to form rows. Bob wanted the rows perfectly straight and if they weren't we would have to start over. I came up with a plan that I thought might work. I took two wooden stakes and wrapped string around each of them. I would hammer one stake at the beginning of the row and the other one at the end of the row. Thus the string provided between the two stakes helped to be our guide. Bob loved gardening so much that every year he kept a chart of the number of the vegetables we grew. I miss gardening and his great sense of humor is evident in the paragraph about the vegetable chart."