Volume 8 , Issue 25

How Our Garden & Legacies Grow...

You should see how our garden is growing with the temperatures in the high 80s during the day and cooling down in the evening! The tomatoes seem to be progressing marvelously. We must be doing something right around here. We have planted another variety of tomatoes and the name escapes us for now, but they both are yellow, golden variety -- one being a cherry and the other being a regular size tomato. As for peppers... we planted some Pablano, jalapeno and sweet bell. All those yellow flowers you see are the marigolds we planted around the tomato plants. We have been told that marigolds help keep the insects off the tomatoes. We do not know if that is fact or myth, but we shall find out, huh?!

Our cucumber seeds are sprouting at about an inch high now. Cucumbers bring to mind a family story that this NW Okie's sister (Dorthy) told her of the times when they were younger. We had this farm out near Two Buttes, Baca County, Colorado where we would grow a big vegetable garden in the Summer. Everyone took part, even this sweet young thing when she was not much higher than a yard stick. It seems this NW Okie could be seen scooting along the rows of cucumbers on her behind -- picking the cucumbers -- taking a bite out of the end -- placing it in her bucket. Hey! She was just a kid. What did she know? NW Okie's own memories are vague about those younger years, but "ain't" it great to have an "older sister" to remember some of those earlier days?!

We were talking with someone this week (through email) about family legacies -- wishing some of those ancestors were still alive so we could learn a little more firsthand about what they lived through in the early stages of when Oklahoma and Indian Territory merged into a State, September 16, 1907. Wondering "Why" -- when we were younger, Why we were too busy to take the time to learn our family legacy from our elders. There are lots of questions we would love to ask our grandmothers and grandfathers. This NW Okie never knew her grandpa all that well, because he and grandmother divorced in the early 1940s. BUT... we do have photos, scrapbooks of his professional baseball days. Our uncle Bob died when when this NW Okie was about 6-years-old, so those memories are a bit faded as well. BUT... that is another treasure chest of memories that we inherited from our grandmother in a collection of photos, letters, journals, etc... that we have been archiving on my "OkieLegacy websites.

Hey! We hear that Kansas, Oklahoma and on east have had some much needed cooling down with thundershowers this week. That is great news about the rain. AND... we hear Oklahoma's gas prices are still fluctuating up and down. We just looked at the gas prices in Bayfield, Colorado at the Conoco station this Friday afternoon, about 5:00 p.m. MDT and saw where it dropped 6-cents in price from $3.169 to $3.109. You Oklahomans are have it great as to gas prices compared to Colorado.

Look for the weasel in the tree; hummingbird nest & Daisy. Don't forget to checkout the Alva High "Goldbug " Class of '53 NEW website. There are reunion information, pictures of the 50th Reunion. For more information on their October 2006, 53rd Reunion, CONTACT: Janet Woodward Holland - Email: Janet@goldbugs53.org
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