Geek And The Bully Grapes - July 2

  Have you ever been to a plant nursery and fallen in love with the most pathetic, ridiculous looking flower there? Well, mom and I did today. We were out, running a few errands, and we stopped at Agway for the plant nursery. While checking the clearance plants, under the tent, we noticed a scraggly, half dried out, wilted, and very tall, flower. He was two feet taller than any other of his kind. We picked him up and put him on the wagon, calling him “Geek”. After getting the flowers that we wanted from under the clearance tent, mom went to search for some grapes to grow along her pergola. It wasn’t long before mom found her grapes.  Of course, she picked out the most handsome looking of them all. They were tall, deep green, very robust, and, of course, full priced. Mom set the grapes on the cart next to “Geek”, not realizing that her decision was poor, and could have been fatal to innocent “Geek”.

Bully Grapes

    Mom and I were at the checkout paying for our plants. Everything was fine and well. We were talking about how Geek was finally going to have a decent home in our gardens. We would make him feel special. But when mom reached down to take the grapes off of the wagon, she yelled out “Annie! Quick, save Geek!” While we weren’t paying attention to the plants, the grapes decided to gang up on Geek. Of course, Geek was just too little to fight back…the Grapes were strangling him. They probably said to him “Oh, it’s you again. I thought you got shipped to the clearance tent, Geek! Ha-ha-ha!” and then pounced upon him. Their vines were all tangled around Geek’s stem. I, of course, rescued Geek by untangling Grapes arms from him. I set him up on the counter, but Geek was too weak from his tragic experience with those nasty, bully grapes. His little stem was bent over and he was lying against his friend, who was also a geek. When mom, Geek, and I got to the car, we got some medical tape from the trunk and bandaged him up the best we could. Geek rode in the front seat with  me so that he wouldn’t break anymore. I believe that made him feel special. He had air-conditioning in the front, while the other plants, including those bully grapes, had to sit in the hot trunk.

    When we got home, we immediately brought Geek to the garden, dug a deep hole in the earth, planted him nicely, and gave him a drink of cold water. He is now a happy little Geek in the garden, soon to be amongst many of his friends from the clearance tent. We hope that Geek will have a many good months in that dirt, and Lord willing, the frost will be late this year.

  

“For lo, the winter is gone, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard on our land. The fig tree puts forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grapes give a good smell…” 

Song of Solomon 2:11 – 13