Friday, April 2, 2010

Molly in the Garden

We are starting to plant the garden.  The Sugar Snap Peas are up.  Potatoes are planted, along with some broccoli, cauliflower, and a few peppers.
We were working in the garden, Jerry, Jack, Molly Jo and myself.  Jerry had gone off to do something.  So Jack and I had finished the task of putting the seed potatoes in the rows. Molly Jo was supposed to be covering them up with soil.  She was using a garden rake. Which she didn't know how to use, by the way.  Jerry had showed her, but as Jack said, "Molly, it is not a broom.  You can't use it like a broom."  In her defense, the dirt was a little hard to move with the rake.
Oh, well.  She was complaining loudly.  So, I decided I would cover up the row next to the one she was working on with my hands.  I was pretty quick and got ahead of her.  She decided she would get rid of the rake and use her hands too.  As she is covering the potatoes with dirt using her hands, Jack says, "Molly, you want to hear something funny?"  All the time he is saying this, he knows the reaction that is coming.
Molly says, "Whatever.  Tell me, Jack."
"The pigs peed in this dirt,"  Jack says.
Well, you can probably guess the rest.  She came unglued.  "OOOooo.  Gross.  Nastiness.  I am not eating these potatoes, they are growing in nastiness."  She wails as she grabs the rake, she looks at me with a look that could make roses wilt.  Jack and I are cracking up.  It was quite funny.

1 comment:

  1. That is hilarious!! I'm going to have fun with this one the next time Molly's over!!! :D

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