Congrats to my Dad who has finally sold his greenhouse property and entered the world of retirement. For nearly forty years, Dad has grown cucumbers and tomatoes; first working for my grandfather in England and eventually owning his own business here in BC.
Weird as it sounds, cucumbers and tomatoes have always been around since I was a kid. Some of my earliest childhood memories involve the smell of sawdust, the scratchiness of cucumber plants and pretending that tomato stems were little green spiders. If it wasn't for Dad taking a new job as a greenhouse manager in 1978, we would never have moved from England to Canada. In 1980 or so, I remember my sister and I buying a T-shirt for Dad with the words 'The Duke of Cukes' on it. He was nice enough to actually wear it out in public a couple of times.
Anyway, congratulations on your retirement Dad... you deserve it.
2 comments:
Yes - Congratulations from me too Dad!!!
And us too, uncle Nod!
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