Personal Narrative: Break-Up The Home

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Have you ever had the privilege of watching a farmer, up close and personal? One my fondest memories are of watching my grandfather plow up the earth, year after year, getting ready to “put the garden in”. I knew what that meant! Yummy carrots and cucumbers and green beans we would be picking and eating just 20 minutes later as part of lunch. Good stuff, good memories and a good lesson that sticks with me to this day. The lesson was simple but profound; before planting, take the time to “break up the ground” for a plentiful harvest. This can mean one or more of many different actions depending on what the planned outcome you desire may be. For instance, in thinking about leaving renting behind and buying the next place where I’m going …show more content…

That's the one I choose to give my contact information and have them stay in touch. I appreciated how they followed up, providing articles about mortgage loans, title insurances and what to look for when I finally got to the place of needing a home inspection. I was very thankful since a lot of the information provided were things I hadn’t even known I needed to know! One other thing that stood out about Grandpa’s vegetable garden was that it wasn’t ever “all business, no show”. Hard to say if he did it to please Grandma or was intended to entice us girls out to help, have those great conversations we always seemed to end up having, or he really just wanted to please us. (I think it was all of the above) Grandpa always planted a few rows of his girls’ favorite flowers. Daffodils for Grandma, pansies for Lucy and daises for me. Those flowers drew us out, day after day, to visit with Grandpa while he worked. Those visits are the unforgettable memories that warm my heart on many cold, hard days. We’d chat while we worked, turning the soil, sorting out weeds from veggie shoots, sorting out the stuff of life as I grew up and moved out into the world. That wisdom he shared has held me steady through many storms as I grew up. A garden was an absolute must have for my

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