Kates Bluebonnets

[Guest guest]

Jim was awakened

by something wet on his face, and as he sat up

he realized

that it was rain! Blessed rain was pouring out of a darkened

sky in torrents,

and as he sat there in Kate's bluebonnet patch,with

that glorious

rain washing the dust from his face, he smiled,knowing

he had something

important to do.

In a few days, as soon as the ground was dry enough, he plowed

the whole

farm under, including Kate's patch, then went down to

the cotton

gin to find Herb Miller and do some business. You see

Herb's oldest

boy Frank had just married Mary Beth Simmons

and they

were looking for a place to farm, but the big corporate

farms were

buying up most of what was available, making it tough

to find

a place of their own. Jim cut Frank a deal on buying the farm

and within

the month Frank and Mary Beth were ready to move in.

About this

time, as Jim was showin Frank the particulars of the place,

he asked

Frank to come over to his truck where he had a sack of

seed, and

made some suggestions about a certain half acre that

could be

seen out the kitchen window of the farmhouse.

Not long after that Jim finished loading up his truck and took off

for parts

unknown, didn't seem to worry folks much, they had

rarely seen

a man as contented with his lot in life and happy with

the prospect

of a journey.

That next

Spring Frank saw Mary Beth standing at the kitchen window

crying,

and when he asked her what was wrong, she looked at him with

with big

tear-filled brown eyes, took him in her arms, kissed him, and

whispered

in his ear,

" I just

love those bluebonnets, and I love you for putting them there for me."

 

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