The Importance Of Yardwork In The Workplace

Frank and Tilly both had green thumbs when it came to growing fruits and vegetables. They had a grapevine growing along the fence in their backyard. Pear and plum trees growing at the side of their home yielded fruit for Millie’s family all summer long. Each summer Tilly sent home large grocery bags filled with fresh tomatoes from her garden. So it came as quite a surprise when Mille discovered her mother did not have any natural ability to grow anything.
Unlike her grandparents’ yard, Millie’s lawn was distressed. How she envied her next-door neighbor’s lush green grass that felt like carpet beneath her bare feet. Four O’clock, red trumpet shaped flowers that stayed shut during the day only opening in mid-afternoon, growing wild along the south wall of her house, were now dead. The only live plants to come into the house were dandelions picked by Sam and Beth in summer and the Christmas tree each December, which technically wasn’t alive since it had been chopped down. The truth of the matter; it was the worst looking yard on the entire block, or maybe the whole neighborhood.
Somehow, yard work didn’t seem very important with her mother recovering from the effects of divorce and breast cancer surgery, which left her feeling weak and tired. Radiation treatments scarred Hanna’s body, making her feel unattractive, …show more content…
“Yes, Millie, we’re going to dig a hole with that spoon to plant this tree.” Wanting to please their mother, each child, on hands and knees, took a turn digging a hole large enough to swallow the burlap sack wrapped around the roots of the tree. By dusk the hole was deep enough to plant the sapling. Pete and Sam grabbed the burlap bag covering the roots while Molly, Kate, Millie, Susan, and Beth lifted the skinny trunk. Working together they lowered the sapling into the ground. With the soft glow of a yellow sky as the backdrop, they drew strength and hope from each other as they admired the mighty three-foot