March 16, 1992: Helen and I played Scrabble in p.m.
March 17, 1992: Finished piecing the Shadow Box quilt top."
I am pretty sure I remember an amarylis going crazy with blooms. Whether it was this one or not, I'm not sure. Seems the one I am thinking of had to have some kind of support or it would fall over.
I know she didn't miss them, but I did. Grown-up kids do, but younger ones probably don't know that Grandma used to have lots of plants in the bay window on the front of the house. I honestly do not remember what kinds she had but only that there were lots of different ones. She grew tired of caring for them and I understand that completely (over 20 violets I had at one time...yikes) but I was sad to see the live plants go and the artificial ones come in. I used to have to be careful around those plants when I was plucking up box elders bugs and dropping them in a mason jar of oil to kill them. And of course, Jack famously used at least one plant for a litter box. Or tried to anyway. Maybe that was the icing on the cake for Grandma to not have live plants with dirt anymore. I wish I had a photo, but I don't.
Since there was a mention of Grandpa planting the garden in the last post, I'll put a photo up that is the best I've found lately showing the size of his garden and it is still not showing at least a third of it. I wonder how many hours he spent each year keeping that thing looking so good.
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