Sometimes you just have to laugh

If you've ever grown a garden then you have undoubtedly had something stolen, either by man or beast. It can be discouraging to work really hard on something just have it stolen, but sometimes you just have to laugh. I experienced this recently with our demonstration garden here at the Ag center. Now, I knew when we built the garden that problems would take place due to the it's location right in the open, but what took place in the fall garden, I was not expecting. Like most gardeners that grow fall crops, I planted cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower. These crops were growing good and people would compliment me on how nice they looked, but then something funny began to take place. Folks began telling me how nice the collards looked. I would look at them real funny and politely say that the crops weren't collards and explain what they really were. At first I didn't think anything about it but one day I came in to work and found a few broccoli leaves missing. I figured that someone had mistakenly taken the leaves thinking they were collards and they would find out that the leaves weren't that good. Boy was I wrong. About a week later I found a group of people with trash bags in our garden stripping the leaves off the broccoli and cauliflower plants. At first I got mad but started to laugh once I saw the heads of broccoli and cauliflower sticking up like cotton balls...haha. Sometimes people are absurd and we expect more from them than they actually are but I hope they enjoyed their boiled broccoli leaves. I miss the days when people didn't take what wasn't theirs and wanted to work for what they had. I want everyone to have healthy food but sometimes I think that we should all consider honor just as important. After all what is a man with no honor. He's not a man at all. There is right and wrong in this world, if you do the one you're living if you do the other, well, you may be walking around but you're as dead as a beaver hat.