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Green and Growing!
With the children (for the most part) off and enjoying the fruits of early adulthood and my wife and I rattling around the home left vacant in their departure we came to the conclusion we needed to continue to care for something, to nurture, feed, and mostly to love (or boss around)
So we choose a garden, yes of course a vegetable garden! My wife was brought up on an Iowa farm

and I not so experienced but some nevertheless, prepared the ground and planted or over-planted as the case may be. We obviously did well our jobs as the veggies thrived from the beginning.
I believe the children, at one point, even joined the lush green growth yet envious when they over-heard me talking, urging and directing our newly found offspring with praise and ever so prideful (maybe not) In any event, my wife told me of some fertilizers all natural and monetarily free from expense which I quickly embraced. Coffee and Tea grounds she stated one evening at supper as we sat across from one another, the dog beneath the table stretched out so to touch the both of us. Yes, Coffee and Tea grounds she reiterated. No thanks, I responded, I'm full!
Laughingly she started over, I heard recycled coffee and tea grounds filters included are a wonderful method of fertilizer and even a repellent for certain insects, which of course we had not instance one. Great I said while reaching under the sink to retrieve a plastic Folgers Coffee can. After about a week of collecting these tiny nuggets of acid I spooned out, at the base of each plant, an appropriate amount and worked it into the rich soil promising the leaves and infant fruit a delicious jolt of energy. We laughed (the plants and I) and I bid them good-night opting not to a kiss individual but one collectively cast.
As the morn pulled away its thin summer sheet and a beautiful crimson, orange and blue sky appeared my dog and I were making ready the sprinkler when, What the @ # >*!@ nestled firmly atop those luscious Big Boy" tomatoes were two, not one but two cute little, fuzzy Chipmunks!
They were slurping away at our kids, er veggies. But they are so adorable thought I when finally accepting their visit. Morning Chip, morning Dale said I as I turned the hose to on. They scattered at the high pitched squeal to the vale disappearing beneath the ground next to the very stem of the middle tomato plant. Wait! was this not the very place I offered those coffee grounds? Hmmmm, Hey wifey, which is my pet summons of my wife, Hither come ? She approached a nearby window and I offered her the absolute best vantage point of the freshly harvested half ingested remains for her inspection. Care to comment? Uhmmm, I guess we should have left some donuts too. What a sense of humor wifey...

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