The ladies talk a little gardening

Margie: Edna, I hate to be the bearer of bad news but your tushie is getting broader by the day. I know you hate exercise but today is Gardening Exercise Day. We need to do some gardening anyway so we can have fun and exercise at the same time. Get up and come on. Maybe I'll fix you some of those sugar snap peas for dinner.

Edna:  Sister, after all those insults you'd best not get anywhere near me while I have this shovel in my hand.

Margie: 911? This is Margie. Send deputies quick! Edna is attempting to murder me.

Edna:  You just keep digging that hole, sister, and tell me when you hit six feet deep.

Spring has sprung!

And Spring arose on the garden fair,

Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Sensitive Plant"

Image from the 1918 Burpee Seeds catalog, courtesy Burpee Seeds catalog cover gallery

Ask Us Almost Anything

Margie: Edna, I have an idea to share with our readers. What do you think about letting them ask us questions?

For instance, they might want to ask why you're so crabby all the time. I'd like to hear that answer myself.

Edna: Margie, I doubt our readers would ask that. They're much too polite to make crass (and false) observations like that.

I do like this idea, though. We have a lot of knowledge to share...well, I do anyway. You're just a blowhard.

Margie: Genteel ladies like me can answer most any question from polite society. I know all about cooking, gardening, handsome gentlemen, rules of dating, and so forth.

Actually, there's not much I don't know. I'm not too good at math or geography though. What do you know, Edna?

Edna: I'm sure there's plenty you don't know, but I'll make up for your shortcomings like I always do. To paraphrase my favorite TV character, Dean Winchester: "I know a little about a lot of things, just enough to make me dangerous."

This could be fun, Margie!

Margie: Fruit loop!

Okay friends, here's your chance to ask us whatever you'd like to know. Please excuse us if we don't answer questions of a too personal nature. Ladies never tell as you know.

Anything else, Edna?

Edna: I think that pretty much says it all, Margie. We'll do our best to answer your questions, dear readers. And I'll try and keep my sister from lying when she doesn't know the answer.


Please leave your questions in the comments, and we will respond to them on Sept. 21st.