General Discussion & Chat: NIGHT OWLS ONLY - OPEN: 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. (2nd Call), 1 by AmandaEsq

AmandaEsq wrote:
Good morning everybody. :)

Thanks for those heady thoughts, Blue! Got my brains churning about poetry and my beloved books. Wanted to share one in particular from my collection.

When I was in the Master Gardener program I spent a lot of time in the office after I left my day job. I enjoyed answering the "info line" and some old folks used to call just to chat everyday. Funny - they would call and ask for Amanda, and when I wasn't there staff would actually take messages for me.

We received book donations regularly most of which were added to the stacks in the office tidily arranged by topic with homemade labels someone made to identify the category - not Dewey Decimal, but thoughtful.

This little book came in one day while I was there, and I had to have it. I thought it needed to be treasured and not labeled somehow and put on the shelf in the Ag Extension offices. I don't know if it was "right," but I feel strongly that it was right for me. :D

The cover is handmade of a cotton cloth design with peacocks and lion and deer and birds and flowers. It has its own bookmark sewn in.

Published in 1924 "Gardening by Myself" by Anna B. Warner it is a charming garden almanac written in the first person and arranged by month with observations of the garden, growth, tasks, what is blooming, and her prose. It is so quaint and lovely. There is an inscription and the handwriting looks eerily like my mother's. hahhhahhahaha.

I never tire of reading it, and I dutifully turn to the appropriate month when I pick it up to see what was going on in her garden in comparison to mine.

It's been a long day so I will try to get a few Zzzzzs if I can. That is if the dumb dog will stop with his booming barking. >: /

Enjoy your morning!

A.