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DONNA'S PLANTATION 

1/23/2014

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                                                                DONNA'S PLANTATION


                                  Inevitable. We knew it was going to happen.
                                  And, we were virtually unable to prevent it.

                                  About a year ago, my wife, Donna, cajoled,
                                  pleaded, and begged me to let her purchase
                                  just one little indoor plant just to liven up
                                  the breakfest room. 

                                  Knowing the extent of her husband's most 
                                  benevolent, tenderhearted nature, she appealed
                                  to him at a most apropos time...Her entreaty
                                  reached our ears just as the band was playing
                                  the Star-Spangled Banner prior to the start of
                                  this year's Super Bowl.*

                                  So, Donna acquired her one little plant 
                                  and placed it on a small round table by our 
                                  breakfast room windowseat. Today, three 
                                  months later we took count, and there are now      
                                  seven (count them) different plants...from a
                                  cactus to a poinsettia on the same table.

                                  In pursuing her floriferous proliferation, my
                                  sweet botanical wife has now placed two ferns
                                  in our dinning room, a hanging vine in our 
                                  downstairs bathroom, and a Japanese vine that
                                  raps around our neck as we enter the kitchen.
                                  Ah so.

                                  Donna recently informed me that the upstairs
                                  would  be next to receive the addition of any 
                                  new frondescent foliation.
                                  As for me, I'm thinking about opening a discount
                                  floral shop. 
 
                                  (*This article was originally written in March, 1977.
                                  The Oakland Raiders beat the Minnesota Vikings
                                  32-14 in Super Bowl XI, that year.) 
                               

                          






















      
                                             


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