

“I am 85 years old today!! I never thought I’d make it to this age. It was a nice morning and I took a little stroll around the yard and admired Ruth’s garden. It is a perfect example of her green thumb and her love of being outside working with her plants. Over the years, we have put in a lot of work fixing up the place — walks, fences, deck, raised beds, trees, etc. It is certainly a reflection of both of our personalities — but mostly Ruth’s. It will be hard to leave this place. If we leave next summer we will have lived here for 28 years, longer than we have lived anyplace else.”
I don't know if the wall of plants in the one pictures is tomatoes or cucumbers, but whatever they are they were still growing
As I write this we have lived in Idaho for almost a year. We are reasonably well acclimated to the area and to our home and family here.

If there is a bright spot in the coronavirus debachle it could be the return to backyard gardening. I remember the Victory Gardens of WWII in the 1940s. Then, as now, it was good for the environment, it provided a source of inexpensive nutritious food, and it brought families together. What could be better than that?
Greeting from Doc and Ruth Holliday — now firmly planted in Idaho!
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