OK...so it's an odd combination. Why not?!! As usual, I'm listening to the soundtrack of "Gettysburg" on this the 145th anniversary of the third day of the battle when Generals George Pickett and Johnson Pettigrew marched 15,000 Confederate troops against a highly fortified position at the behest of General Robert E. Lee, much as the Union had done at Fredericksburg where Great Grand Pappy fought. Just for the record, as far as anyone can tell, 50% of those brave Southerners ended up casualties, including Ted Turner as a colonel at the rail fence by the Emmitsburg Road in the movie version! If we watch the movie tonight or this weekend, it'll be the 33rd viewing!Now, the left photo shows how well Watermelon Henge is growing. So, what's so odd about the connection? There was the Wheat Field and Peach Orchard battles and fighting all around Trostle's Farm at Gettysburg. Why shouldn't Watermelon Henge be the sight of the Battle in my post-Reformation, Van Tillian, Zen Buddhist Feng Shui sort of Tao while I'm getting it to grow with some judicious watering...like the troops watered themselves at Spangler's Spring at Gettysburg?!! The KJV calls us "God's peculiar people" in some text that's slipped my memory. I figure I'm just living up to the nomenclature!
When you run out of things to say, go to work!
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