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THE FANATIC

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  It was Saturday. My favoritist of days. On most wintertime Saturdays I get comfortable in the recliner with my coffee, my hound dog Satchel and a Bugs Bunny cartoon (don’t judge me I love cartoons) but on this day I was told in no uncertain terms to ‘get up off of that thang’ as it was time to go.   Sigh.  My job is to do whatever she tells me to do, and to do it efficiently with great zeal and dispatch.  So, we load the truck and head off to the Gardens at Brookdale, where herself is conducting yet another class—todays lesson— seed starting, is a follow on to her    previous classes on pollinators, composting, early spring planting and yada yada yada, E-I-E-I-O.  I’m not going to say she’s enthusiastic about these classes, I’m not going to say she enjoys this whole gardening gig, but I will say that she attacks this madness as if her hair were on fire. Rather, in an efficient manner with great dispatch and zeal.  She’s a fanatic.  Planting...