Down in the Well & Other Short Stories by Lorri Moulton

Author:Lorri Moulton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Clean Romance, Sweet Romance, Historical Romance, Short stories, Christian Romance, Early 1900s Romance, Famliy Life, Rural Romance, Farm Romance
Publisher: Lavender Lass Books
Published: 2016-06-18T00:00:00+00:00

A garden and so much more

My grandmother loved her plants. She took the little vegetable patch my grandfather had behind the house and turned it into a real garden. It was filled with herbs and flowers, fruits and vegetables. There was a lilac hedge on the northwest side to block the winds from the mountains and two beautiful rose bushes that were grown mainly for the hips.

She knew about herbs and their uses from her own grandmother, who made medicinal teas and tonics. Fruit grew against the fence all around the edges of the garden. Her blackberries, blueberries, and strawberries went into my grandfather’s favorite dessert...pie. And her grapes ran over the fence and eventually up onto an arbor my grandfather built for her. It covered a long bench with hand-carved vines and leaves along the front. In the spring, the bench was surrounded by the little white blossoms of sweet woodruff. She liked to read there in the late afternoon, when it was too hot to be in the house.

She enjoyed spending her free moments in her garden, often having the children help with little chores, or teaching them about medicinal herbs and flowers. She would read to them, sitting together on the bench, or share stories of her own childhood. And the seasonal joys of picking fresh strawberries or sampling the first ripe tomatoes were looked forward to, almost as much, as birthdays or Christmas.

Many afternoons, my grandmother would take a break from gardening and sit on the bench under the grape arbor. The older children would be at school with the little ones napping in the house. My grandfather would bring out two glasses of his homemade root beer, sit down with her, and they would talk about their day or plans for the future. Those little things couples discuss everywhere. Then, they would get up and walk to the house, with him carrying her basket of food for dinner. He would kiss her and tell her how beautiful she was, especially with that bit of dirt on her cheek. Then, he would go back to the field, and she would wake the baby and start getting supper ready, often smiling to herself as she worked.

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