Show y PET PEEVE t th h y 1 Scott fh k kA T LAST the gardening season A AT is js about over And I 1 cant can't say BaY Im I'm sorry This year my wife started out with the idea of raising vegetables vegetable to can and feed teed us aU all summer Instead instead In in- stead of the usual small maU plot to putter about In and enjoy In April I spaded ground until my back was almost broken She of ot course stood on the sidelines and cheered me on when she wasn't s screaming at me ma to break up this or that clod 1 I must admit she helped me with the string when I was read ready to mark off the rows After that I took over again I finished planting In earl early May I had a little over a week of rest I before the darn dam stuff started coming through the ground With it came cama weeds For the rest of May and June Jane I 1 hoed and hoed and hoed In JuI July we began to have a few things to eat from the garden but butI I 1 still hoed and hoed even In my dreams Then durin during the first of ot August the garden reached its peak of pro pro- Everything was fine until one da day out comes romes the wife with witha a floppy hat on her head some kind of gardening outfit which I learned later set me back gloves glo and a bl big basket Why the rig says lays L LIm LIm LIm Im going out to my garden to get a few vegetables says gays sheDid sheDid she Did you say lay MY garden gardenT Why yes so 10 I did says she I catfish I 1 yelled and started slashing at bean vines tomato tomato to to- mato plants cabbages etc to-I to She fled in terror to the house shouting for grandmother to come and stop the slaughter They Just cant can't understand why I should get so angry when she said MY garden gardea That's like a woman isn't It In I II I |