Comments on: Spring Massacre

By: James Oliver

James Oliver — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 16:21:00 +0000

funny and sad. Enjoy everything you write.

By: Linda Jenkins

Linda Jenkins — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 12:01:26 +0000

I feel bad for that little boy. And I feel sad that the tulips will never bloom as they did then. However, I believe you and Jon taught him a very important lesson. There are consequences to all our actions, even when those actions appear to be so much fun.

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 11:53:48 +0000

I hate to bring a negative note to this story-telling, but Round-up and other such weed killers are bad chemicals to have around. Better to bend over and pull every weed like my mother did who lived to 95. My husband is now fighting nonHodgekins lymphoma (aka known as Farmers’s Disease), which may have been caused by just such toxic chemicals.

By: Ginger Worrell

Ginger Worrell — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 03:43:43 +0000

So sad, too bad……that’s the way I felt when Robbie was just a little guy about five years old because we had only been in Easley about two years at the time. Guess what he did Allie…..this is over 20 years ago now. Robbie, in his little boy mode of going to be Mommy’s helper, found a spray bottle full of ROUND-UP and gleefully sprayed it all over the pretty green grass beside the driveway. There has never been a single blade of grass to reappear again in that area. We are still a sea of mud in our front yard by the front door and neither would new grass seed take root there. I’ve always been thankful that the ROUND-UP did not kill the beautiful oak tree that graces our front yard in the middle of Robbie’s good deed for Mama that day. Oh well, so sad, too bad I always say. Always makes for a good story just like your pretty red tulips that never came back either!! 🙂

By: Susie

Susie — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 14:48:27 +0000

Okay, so here’s a confession….Tell “M-E” that I was way older than him when, not thinking about the shrub that lay below my stream of wasp spray, I went after a mean bee with my can of repellant and sprayed with fury. Forever after there was a dead spot on a portion of that shrub and I had to look at it until it was removed from the ground. Felt kinda dumb, yes I did.

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 14:03:40 +0000

Made me laugh!! Reminds me of the spring over 40 years ago when David and I were living in California and our kids were 5 and 3. They were playing with the neighbor children next door and before long a very upset mom arrived at my door with all the kids in tow. It seems she had a prize miniature lime tree whose fruit was just too tempting to ignore, and my kids had stripped it clean in their pure delight in picking. What could be done to make retribution for this devastating though innocent crime? At this point I can’t remember whether I baked and took them a pie or what, but I do know that my two kids are still excellent pickers and we have had many a raspberry or blueberry pie or strawberry shortcake because of their expertise and joy in the picking!

By: Aunt pinkie

Aunt pinkie — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 14:02:06 +0000

Oh, dear -what a story! Interesting to learn the power of ” off”!and I assume the bulbs were never replaced! As Bob was the gardener, I can only imagine the time it would have taken to do a major ‘replant’!

By: Leslie / LittleGemsUSA.com

Leslie / LittleGemsUSA.com — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 12:54:52 +0000

Haha. That’s great. If it was me I probably would have sprayed them myself to keep the bugs off. If you want to bring blooms inside later you don’t want to bring bugs in too. But I gave up gardening years ago. Too much effort for little to no results and I didn’t even think of Off.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 12:34:46 +0000

Crazy boy!

By: Julie

Julie — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 12:13:06 +0000

Hysterical. Always funnier when it’s someone else’s kids!! 😉