Pluggers by Rick McKee for July 21, 2024

My grandma would feed that to the chickens. She made the most delicious fried chicken.

A little girl offered me a bouquet like that. “Thank you,” I said. “I don’t often get gifts like that.” Her mother said: “I do.”

Tis the thought that counts ! Nice to know when one is remembered ;-)

Them dandylions is make such dandy gifts.

mmmm … Dandelion Wine … yummy.

I used to (in the spring) pick bouquets of ‘wild flowers’ for my Mother ! ! !

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower…..

Grandma’s like any bouquet from the grand kids, even if they’re dead weeds or her prized flowers, roots and all, from her garden.

An age old tradition, nice. Used to do that myself back 70+ odd years, also made necklaces.

Maybe the Grandson picked the blooming dandelions from her yard. That would be nice, too.

Dandelions are such underrated flowers.

“And if you pluck all the ones in the whole yard, I’ll give you a cookie.”

A Plugger loves anything that comes from the heart.

That one way to weed the lawn.

I did the same thing. Mom laughed and hugged me, then told me about pretty flowers that are sometimes not so nice. i must have been about four; it was during Truman

My mother didn’t live to be a plugger, but she appreciated the bouquet of dandelions I gave her as a little one.

OR, a Plugger gives them a nickname. The one I give them is: “Yellow-headed, soil-sucking demons”, but that’s only for the ones in my lawn and garden. The rest of them, I enjoy.

No grands as never been fortunate enough to have children. Our niblings range in age from around 12 to 33 and all but one of them are no longer around.