John, One day someone in College View is going to write a book about you. The Day Johnny Farmer Got His New Name. Best, Johnny Jump Up Leland R. S. Torrence Leland Torrence Enterprises and the Guild 17 Vernon Court, Woodbridge, CT 06525 Office: 203-397-8505 Fax: 203-389-7516 Mobile: 203-981-4004 E-mail: [log in to unmask] www.LelandTorrenceEnterprises.com -----Original Message----- From: adaptive re-use is from the department of repetitive redundancy division [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Leeke Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 9:21 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [BP] A Good Crop >>knowing John to be the good organic horticulturist he is,<< Looks like a Good Crop this Year As a little kid out in Nebraska, maybe when I was in third grade, they called me "Johnny Farmer" because I liked to plant seeds. In September we would go to the state fair on the last day. I'd make friends with the farm kids and we'd help their fathers as they took down the crop exhibits. If I asked, they'd give me a few if the long yellow ears of seed corn. All winter long I had half-a-bushel of the ears of corn rolling around under my bed. About January, I'd get my scissors and cut a 3" strip off the edge of the blotter on my mom's desk. (Don't tell her I did that!) Then I'd reach under my bed and sweep up several kernels of corn, and fold them up in the strip of blotter; folding one inch up all along the bottom, one-third over from the left, one-third over from the right. If I asked my older sister real nice she would get me some wax-paper from the kitchen and I'd wrap that around the blotter making a neat little packet, open at the top, just the size of my shirt pocket and sort of water-proof. I'd sprinkle just a little water in the top of the packet every morning, right after I brushed my teeth. After a week or so I'd get a nice little crop of green corn sprouting up out of my pocket. It looked real nice, growing up to the collar of the red flannel shirt I got for Christmas. Johnny Farmer 1957, Lancaster Co., Nebraska -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html> -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>