Friends July 9, 2009

Well today I spent an inordinate amount of time online looking up old friends on Facebook. It was fun and sad all at the same time. I found two profiles for old friends who I know have died in the last couple of years and seeing their faces hurt. I found friends who I have thought of often in the past ten years since I moved to Missouri. It was kind of strange puting the faces that I remember so well together with the people they have grown into. I can’t help but wonder if after all this time they even remember me but I guess…. theres nothing I can do if they don’t, right? That Kenney Chesney song “Who you’d be today” is playing and it kinda fits. I wonder who they are today- these people who I grew up with so many years ago.

In other random news Jarell and I were talking last night because I wanted to see about getting some sweet corn to plant. He asked me where people used to get seeds for corn before there stores. I explained that farmers would just save a few ears from the previous year’s crop and let them dry. He looked at me and said, “You mean every one of those kernels makes a whole stock of corn??” I laughed and said, “Yeah didn’t you know those were the seeds? Just like almonds and walnuts are seeds.” He then replies, “So you could grow an almond plant?” and then the conversation moved on to other garden dreams. I had to laugh because I now know my husband will probably never be a gardener. He cracks me up sometimes….