The clock is ticking. Only 10 days until Memorial Day, which is the day we honor our war dead.
It is also the traditional day for planting one’s garden in these parts. I do like the idea of starting to grow something from the earth where we have buried our fallen heroes.
This year I am quite excited about the impending arrival of a package of seeds from our financial adviser.
He’s Italian and he and his family are into growing herbs and vegetables and figs, including varieties from their family village back in the old country.
Once our adviser knew I was rather into food, he took it upon himself to teach me the “Ways of the Seed.”
Thus the package, which will include three varieties of Italian basil grown only around their ancestral village. He is including instructions on how to grow herbs from seed, which I have never done.
Also included in the package will be an ounce of oregano, also grown from seeds from the old country.
Our adviser also wants us to visit his family’s farm about 20 miles south of here, where he will give us some fresh figs and homemade salamis and who knows what else.
Now this is just the type of financial adviser everybody should have: Somebody with a keen sense of money and food.
After all, what’s the use of the first if you can’t enjoy the second?
—Lou
Memorial Day is a day of mixed up emotion. Honoring our veterans, with parades and commemorative events. Also joy for the arrival of spring and summer which signals picnics, planting fresh figs and salamis.
Not really on those last two.
— LUCY