| Show Papa very often declared that fruit and vegetables watered with spring over our water land and were fanned the by the canyon sweetest and best breeze that that could be blew grown That tiny stream of spring water brought life-giving refreshment tolarge patch of raspberries an enormous vegetable garden and fruit trees of all varieties GooseYerries and currants grew between the frult trees Mama hired help to pick the berries Often she carried then to town to sell to customers Sometimes she took the white-topped buggy when she also had butter and cream to deliver Papa picked all the apples himself--early harvest red astrachan yellow transparent Jonathans and took them over the mountain to sell in Clear Creek and Scofield He lined the wagon box with straw so the apples hadnice soft bed to ride on He took great care to make sure that not one apple hadsingle bruise on 1t On the return trip Papa stopped at the Albert Christensen nine and boughtload of coal Oh howlooked forward to going with my papa socould sleep out under the stars and feel the closeness of the Heavens and the stillness of the night broken only by the sound of horses munching hay We grew many kinds of vegetables melons and cantalope sweet and julcy from plenty of water Beside the pasture fence away from the spring and the stream Mama also parsley catnip had an herb fennel garden rosemary where oregano she and grew sage thyme for use in the kitchen She carried the water up the hill inbucketboth from necessity and because she loved having herbs and flowers that much Water for washing clothes cooking and that Saturdaynight bath all had to be carried up the M1l Papa said that next to his family the spring was the most thing on the farm God was good and the valuable spring con tinued to bublle and gurgle from deep inside the earth and it never went dry |
