I’m pleased to say for the first time our little garden is overflowing with tomatoes!  As I anxiously await for them to ripen, I thought I’d share with you one of Mom’s favorite stories about the time Dad accidentally planted magic beans, forcing me to add patrolling for Giants to my watch dog duties.  Back in the of Spring 2015 Dad planted a box garden.  Well as predicted by me, it didn’t grow any boxes.  But shockingly he did grow magic beans!  The green beans he planted turned into huge flowers that towered over my head.  Mom said that Dad must have mislabeled the seedlings he started on the windowsill, and planted sunflower seeds in the box garden by mistake.  But Dad insisted he didn’t, and Dad is never wrong.  So that only left one logical conclusion – He planted magic beans!

Troubled by the height of those plants I Googled “magic beans,” and discovered something similar happened to some guy named Jack.  Now in Jack’s case, the beans grew all the way past the clouds to a magic kingdom where a Giant lived.  But Jack sounded like a real jerk because he used that beanstalk to steal from the Giant’s kingdom, leaving the Giant with no choice but to come down to visit Jack’s house.  As much as I love meeting new people, I really didn’t want a Giant accidentally stepping on me or Asa.  So as long as those magic beans bloomed nice and tall, I kept an eye on Asa.  After all Asa was just a puppy at the time, and couldn’t resist stealing regular socks.  I seriously doubted he could resist the lure of Giant socks!  Thankfully though we made it through the fall of 2015 with no unexpected visitors, and since then Dad has been extra vigilant against planting magic beans!