“ Will the cops come and get us ? ” my Logos take , half seriously .
“ No , I do n’t think so , ” I replied .
“ What if the neighbors see , ” my daughter said , “ Will they descend over and get mad ? ”
“ I doubt it . ”
We stood in the backyard of a colored and empty house , armed with folderol bags , shovels , bucketful and a single light-emitting diode flashlight . The caller included my oldest two children , my acquaintance Allen the Beekeeper and his girl Laura .
Allen had gotten a call sooner that solar day from a booster .
Perfect conditions for a garden raid!
“ Hey … there ’s some plants and a bed of sugarcane in the back of my house . The landlord does n’t give care about it . grind it up now or I ’m gon na pout it all down tomorrow . ”
After the call , Allen called me .
“ Want to get some plant life ? ”
Perfect conditions for a garden raid!
The answer , of course , was yes … the problem was , we were n’t both free until well past dark .
When we got to the family , it wait like this :
consummate conditions for a garden raid !
Perfect conditions for a garden raid!
Dark . Very benighted . But there were plants that needed redeem so we campaign on . Laura hold up the torch as we cut down cane and travail up what had been a 4′ x 8′ layer of the stuff . Thanks to a mild wintertime , the cane were untouched by rime and deliciously angelical .
I may have pause during the venturesome raid , O reader , to give the children a few pick clump … but I never lost sight of the mission .
Overall , it strike us about an hour of apprehend to remove all of the sugar cane .
Perfect conditions for a garden raid!
Beyond that , we also nabbed a few rosemary bushes ( which I greatly doubt will survive transplanting ) and a nice glob of lemon grass .
On the way out , I could n’t help face through a pile of railway yard waste by the side of the route … and was greatly proud of to let on ( and deliverance ) a freshly dug thump of Jasmine , unwilted with some good ascendant remaining .
We ca n’t save every plant … but we can stress .
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