Grace Notes

Someone has said, “Plant, and your spouse plants with you. Weed, and you weed alone.” (Author unknown) My late mother often expressed a similar sentiment. “No one ever comes and bothers you when you’re walking beans!”

I’d best pause for a note of explanation. When I was growing up, a common summer job for kids was “walking beans.” This involved walking up and down rows of soybeans (half a mile or m…