Family Tree by Signe Wilkinson for December 20, 2024
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Transcript:
man says, "I'm tearing up my yard to plant veggies. It's to survive the depression." Ames says, "Ok." Ames says, "Have you gardened before?" man says, "No. How hard can it be?" Tree's Trees Nursery Man says, "Plant seeds. Water. Weed. Presto!" Man says, "Pick the fresh cans of peas right off the vine!" Ames says, "This will be an amusing depression!"
My mom grew up in a small town in Iowa. She was a Navy nurse during WWII. When she was stationed on New Caledonia she saw a couple of sailors trying to feed a tin can to a goat. The goat wasn’t interested. She thought the origin of the cartoon gag was the labels on the cans. She believed that some goats discovered that they liked the taste of the glue.