Plumming Issues
Plumming Issues
My disgruntled spouse surveyed the plum,
squeezed it between palm and thumb,
saw that there were plenty more
in the tree that grew next door,
and though the crop was most abundant,
merely saw it as redundant.
There were no grapes for him to filch.
Bananas? It had proffered zilch.
No oranges or apples to
seed and peel and slice and chew.
No limes or lemons to produce
a glass of fresh-squeezed zesty juice.
It made him sad and rather glum
to see plum after purple plum
hung on the tree. Could I dispute
his claim that we’d have to commute
to steal instead various fruit?
I felt his argument was moot.
One must make do with what might come.
The progeny of plum was plum.
If he required figs or berries,
peaches, kiwi fruit or cherries,
he’d have to head out to the store
or plant a a dozen trees or more.
He’d have to mulch and trim and spray,
water every other day,
and wait for years for fruit to grow,
but he was hungry now and so
he went outside and picked him some
plum after plum and plum and plum.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
I wish I had a bunch of those- hard to find good ones in stores
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I know. And if they aren’t quite ripe when I buy them, I put them in the fridge and forget them and have to just throw them away after they’ve gone mushy.
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It’s early for plums here. We get very nice big juicy one at the peak of summer.
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This made me think of when my bro and I were kids staying with our grandma. She went out one morning to pick plums for preserves. She set the bowl on the kitchen table and told us to keep our hands off or we’d get worms. My bro and I ate the whole bowl. When she saw that, she just laughed. 💜
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And did you get worms? I think not, but I bet you got something else….;o)
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No, strangely enough…
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I wish our tree would yield so many plums, Judy!
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The last time I had a plum tree was when I was a little girl. This one is just a photo I borrowed!!
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My grandmother had plum trees. Once when my aunt made jam, it didn’t set, but it made a fabulous topping for vanilla ice cream!
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Ha.. and a great excuse to eat ice cream.
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Who needs excuses?😋
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