Taking a break

13 years ago

Leone has me digging up about half of a rather large flower bed. Both nimblewill and bent grass have become pests and I have to use a spading fork and theen carefully make sure the weeds and their roots are out of the soil but, as I was digging I remembered the names of two towns in Nebraska. One I would have liked to have graduated from high school there, the town was Harvard. Would have liked to say that I was a Harvard graduate and the other town is named Colon, yes Colon. Can you imagine the remarks you would get if you said I lived in Colon.

I was in boot camp with a fellow from Colon and tthe bad jokes were constant.

Comments (16)

kathyjane
13 years ago
SNORT! SNORT!
COLON??!!!!
That poor guy!

gandle, if you get bored working on that bed, I have TONS of Wiregrass invading beds you can have a go at!
Do you like PIZZA? :o)
KJ
(You be careful out there!)
agnespuffin
13 years ago
Harvard? Ah yes! My father-in-law studied and learned a lot at Harvard. He was born there in fact. The family left Nebraska for Ga. when he was quite young.

We don't have wiregrass, but you are welcome to come and help the Husband Guy dig out the Betony and bermuda grass.
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west_gardener
13 years ago
Oh, how the mind can wander when weeding and digging. Somehow your post reminded me of Intercourse, Pennsylvania, close to where DH grew up and close to where we used to live. My mind wanders in the garden during spring.
anneliese_32
13 years ago
My enemy is crabgrass. Ky has some funny town/village names. Anybody wants to live in Monkey's Eyebrows?
mawheel
13 years ago
West, I'm sure you know that you have to go thru Intercourse to get to Paradise? LOL

(Paradise is another small town in PA., not far from Intercourse.)
gabriell_gw
13 years ago
Texas has many towns with funny names, one is Bug Tussle.
User
13 years ago
Those flower beds are more work than they look, breaks needed. So many strangely named towns each with their own special history. Fun thoughts.
Janis_G
13 years ago
Kentucky always reminds me of my famous King reunion.
batyabeth
13 years ago
My personal favorite: Hump Tulips, Washington. Gotta love it.
kathyjane
13 years ago
---Hey, Jan; mayhaps we could have a refresher reading of that there REunion?!
C'mon. :o)
botann
13 years ago
My brother lives near Athol, Idaho. He says the town council just voted on a new name, .....for obvious reasons.
"What name did they decide on?", I asked.
He said, "Anus".
Mike
kathyjane
13 years ago
snort!
west_gardener
13 years ago
mwheel, yes, I remember Paradise.
Don mentioned that each had their own history. When our subdivision was built, on an apricot orchard, the names of the streets do not reflect the history of our town.
mjmercer
13 years ago
There's an Oblong and a Normal, both in south-central Illinois. So a few years ago there was the inevitable newspaper headline "Oblong man marries Normal woman."

Karen
gandle
Original Author
13 years ago
Forgot to mention that Colon is near Wahoo Nebraska.
lindac
13 years ago
we've got What Cheer here in Iowa....as well as Brooklyn and Nevada, Madrid Tripoli and Buffalo.
And we have Manley and Fertile fairly near to each other....but a lot of miles from Dike.
Linda C