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Slim Randles' Home Country
Deed with a heart for future
generations
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[April 28, 2007]
When old Joe Gilliam began digging that hole in his front
yard, out there close to the street, neighbors watched and wondered.
When he got his grandson to help him carry the shade tree sapling
from his pickup to the hole, people nodded. |
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Mystery solved. Old Joe's planting a tree.
After removing the root mass from the five-gallon pot, the
grandson disappeared and Old Joe was left to care for the baby tree.
He carefully spread the tiny feeder roots out and tucked them in
with soil. Then he packed more dirt around the tree's base and
soaked it well with the hose.
No one else saw anything odd in Joe planting that tree, either,
but Joe's been retired now going on 20 years. He's old and getting
more frail each year. By the time that sapling gets large enough to
give homes to squirrels and birds and shade to neighbors and a
resting place for dogs, Joe will have been long gone.
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Planting a tree is an affirmation of faith in
the future. It is a gift to those yet unborn. It is a legacy of
goodness, an old man's prayer.
[Text from file received from Slim
Randles]
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