Chancey Jobs (Chancey Books Book 4) by Kay Shostak

Author:Kay Shostak [Shostak, Kay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: August Sun Publishers
Published: 2016-09-18T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

“What is wrong with you two?” Shrieking from the back deck makes both boys look at me, but that’s about it. Bryan hauls off and throws the clump of clay-laced dirt at Grant and laughs as he dodges the clump coming his way.

Grant has the good manners to wipe his dirty hands down his shirt, adding streaks to the stains already there. He smiles at me, but leaves any explaining to my son. Who just throws another clod straight up and laughs when it breaks apart and rains dirt on him.

Yeah, my vegetable garden. Can’t believe Griffin listened to me when I told him to make it bigger. Then, bigger still. He started by rototilling about a six foot by six foot area on Susan’s direction. (Apparently I’ve not impressed my friend with my stick-to-itivness.) But this time I was serious. So, he did another row or two. But I wanted more. Bigger. Lots and lots of vegetables.

Now I have a dug-up rectangle in my backyard about half-a-mile by half-a-mile. Probably not that big, but it looks it. And it’s full of clods of clay and rocks, and that’s all. Heard of red Georgia clay? Well, if there was a market for it, I’d have it cornered. But you know, there is no market for it.

“I never did like gardening. Don’t take you for a gardener, either. Your husband do that?” Gertie moseys out of the kitchen to stand beside me on the deck and joins me looking at the dirt.

Grant and Bryan have moved on around the house and out of shrieking distance.

I sigh. “No, it was my idea.”

“You musta been half crazy, or starving to death, to think you wanted to plant something that big.”

“I was bored.”

Gertie huffs. “What is it with folks thinking they’re bored these days? People think they’ve constantly got to have something going on. Gardens are a real good idea, but you gotta be mighty hungry or really love messing around in the dirt.”

“Maybe I’d really love it.”

“Naw. You don’t have a living plant in the whole house. You got artificial plants around like you’re fooling folks. You don’t care for being dirty or sweaty. And you don’t get that look in your eye when you see plowed-up dirt. Real gardeners get all hepped up about tilled-up soil, kinda like you in a bookstore.”

“How are things going with the bookstore?” I ask.

Gertie twists her mouth from one side to the other. “Guess okay. You might need to come back and deal with it. Andy has a junkin’ gene, looks like. He keeps bringing in junk to sell. And he sells it, but really making that Shannon girl upset. It is a little, well, junky looking.”

“I’ve got my hands full here with the B&B and my garden.”

She grins and lumbers around to go back inside. “I better go. Meeting Missus at the church tonight to do some wedding planning. Figured we’d get some things ironed out before the young’uns get involved.” She turns around at the door.

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