Since this is my last blog post, I
figured I would do the classic sentimental look-back on the garden. (Sorry for
the following corny lines.) What first started out as a simple class proposal
and me signing up because I have had gardening experience before and it was
something different than the normal paper. Turned into something that I talk
about all the time with my teammates and friends and something that I am
excited about doing while I am here at Lehigh this summer. In my previous paper
I wrote about my experiences of working in a local, fresh fruit market in
California. But now I feel like I have the experience of what it takes to begin
a garden. The uncertainty, the dirt underneath the fingernails, the patience of
reading the planting instructions on the back of the seed packet. I’m looking
forward to that first tomato, and the marigolds that Kim and I planted rising up
out of the ground and blooming (hopefully.) I also want the sun to come up and
the cloud cover to be removed so our plants can soak up some nice sunshine. But
alas, I can’t control the weather or if the plants will survive. Which is a
very hard thing for a control freak like me. So I am glad that my garden days
are not coming to a close and I am looking forward to spending my days escaping
Lehigh two blocks away and visiting the garden to collect our veggies and say
hi to the growing plants.
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