Tommy’s Place

I hope to use this space to discuss  hybridizing and raising daylilies.

Tommy 

Something I have a hard time with is monarch butterflies. These
rascals, that are supposed to fly to Mexico, are you kidding me? If you
watch those Gomers, they flop around like they are high on adult beverage or
something, they run into every thing in site. I saw one on the ground the
other day, laying on its back talking to another different kind of
butterfly. “Hey Jack (butterflies call each other Jack, I don’t know why),
what’s wrong with you”. “I just run into that clothes line pole”. “Are you
hurt”? “No I’ll be alright in a minute or two, happens all the time”. “Where
you headed”?
“Mexico”. “Man that’s a long way you know”. ” I know and so far today I only
gone about two blocks, I keep flopping around into every thing in site”.
“When do you expect to get there”? “Oh, at the rate I’m going now, about 40
years”. “Are you gonna live that long”? “I better my wife and kids left last
week, going on ahead to find a place to spend the winter”. ” I don’t know
Jack, you better just stay here in Eden (South), I don’t think you are going
to make it”. “I better or I am a dead Monarch when the little lady and the
kids come back through here in the Spring”. “Lots luck, holler me up when
you come back through in the Spring”. “I will, what’s your name”? “Jack”.
“Will do Jack”.
tom

Tom’s Daylily Page

Refinement 101: Being refined will always cause you a lot more
headaches than being unrefined. Refined people who know they are refined or
suspect they are refined, have to worry about the fact that other people may
not realize they are refined. You see, if you are refined and no one knows
you are refined then all your refinement is for naught. If you are
unrefined, it’s like living inside of a cow, you will always be in the dark.
If people are laughing at you behind your back, you are still inside the cow
you can’t see or hear anything. The more in the dark you live your life the
less you will know about what’s going on around you. I really prefer not to
know very much about what others fallacies are, because it might entice me
go help them by pointing out their fallacies.
Anytime you go to correct someone else’s fallacies it will usually turn out
bad for the person who didn’t know they had all these fallacies and the
fallacy fixer. My Mother use to tell me, “Tommy you just pull your little
red wagon that hauls all your problems and don’t load it down with other
people’s problems too, believe me your wagon is full enough already”. I
believe most of the worlds problems are caused by people with over loaded
wagons. Also, (this won’t be on the test) if you are real smart and know it
or suspect it then you might will feel obligated to make sure it’s not
wasted. If you are the only person on earth who knows how smart you are,
your back inside the cow. Get use to living in a cow. Don’t waste your time
hollering out the rear end of a cow trying to get someone’s attention.
Believe me, no one in their right mind will listen to a cow’s rear end.
Sleep comes easier, inside a cow it’s easy to sleep it’s always dark and
quite. .

Met a feller the other day who said he and his wife were fighting
over the color of the hard wood floor they want to put down. I explained to
him the color of a hard wood floor is about the most insignificant thing I
can think of to fight about. Most men wouldn’t care if you just put sawdust
on the floor. Sawdust makes a man feel like he lives in a bar. I see very
little down side here. Some people say you should never select a wife you
met in a bar. I have a cousin who met all five of his wives in a bar and he
said he liked all five-of-um till they up and left. He claims bar wives
won’t stay around very long, since they drink your beer while you are at
work. That will surely break up a marriage. When my wife and I first got
married I sat her down and explained to her what I expected her to do. She
called all her friends so they could laugh about it too. I was not
sufficiently trained to leap into marriage with both feet the way I did.
Later I wished I had been conned into marriage so I would have legitimate
grounds to put her in Obedience School by the order of some Judge. They not
only took one of Adam’s ribs to make Eve, they took most of his ability to
win an argument. I don’t know If Eve was a Democrat or a Republican. It
looks to me like the Bible should have clarified that point. It might
explain how the world got in this mess. I see where Solomon had 700 wives,
no wonder he was begging for wisdom. A little late to do anything about it
but it shows it was beginning to bother him. How do you decide who is going
to do what? How many vacuum cleaners can you hook up in one house. These are
the kind of things that had him searching for wisdom, I’m a thinking. I know
I would be at my wits end. If my wife had been there old Adam would have
done a heaping passel of the work. Well enough of that, it’s just not my
problem and as Scarlet said, “I am just not going to worry about that
today”.
Tom’s Daylily Page

As a kid we had to carry home a little tin douber about the size of a
quarter made like a Skoal can, I think you get the point. We had to bring it
back to school so the Health Department could check and see if we had hook
worms. I had forgot about it so my little brother loaned me and my older
brother a little dab of his. All three of us had to take hook worms pills
for a month. We dared not let our Daddy know what we did. In those days your
parents could give you away, or so we were told by my Daddy. We had to
swallow the pills in the class room. I presume that is why I have an
aversion to this day about borrowing things. Lesson here is to be sure who
you borrow from. Pray for our country, Linda, all the sick and the kids in
uniform. Remember if those kids had not volunteered to go, then many of you
would have your kids drafted. Be thankful for those who choose to go. Gotta
Go…
tom

I learned at an early age that a well documented, corroborated,
justifiable lie will have a much greater life expectancy than the truth and
could cause much less bodily harm and bad mouthing. I find that people who
took the time to develop a good background in lying, stand a much better
chance of getting ahead in this world and with a minimum of physical labor.
Let’s face it, any way you can cut down on physical labor, is usually
admired by most. There are two acceptable reasons for lying, one is for
money the other is to protect yourself from being maimed. When I was young I
could dig and chop all day and never get sore or tired. No, wait, I’m sorry,
that was my little brother that did a lot of digging and chopping. I do
remember how taxing it was to watch though. Hard work is hard to endure even
if you are just a spectator. I never felt good about watching others work
hard, but thankfully I could always adapt well. As for the possible personal
gain, I don’t really see a problem here either, especially if you come from
a family that good fortune has bypassed for many a less deserving family.
When I look around at so many people who are much less deserving than myself
getting ahead in this world it reminds me that there is no justice left on
earth, that’s dependable and fair. A person is required and expected to lie
if a spouse ask you if their new outfit makes them look fat. It is much
easier to get along in this world if you can just remember to tell people
what they want to hear. This is certainly not considered as lying, it’s just
the smart thing to do. If you have not gleaned a few choice nuggets from
this dissertation, then senility may be farther along in your life than you
are willing to admit.
tom

Potted meat smells so bad it will kill a mole on you, if you apply
it for about a week. You might decide to keep the mole before the week is
up. One empty potted meat will keep deer out of you Daylilies for six
months. Children who carry potted meat sandwiches to school never get their
lunch stolen. You can make fourteen sandwiches from one can of potted meat,
it won’t take much. Southerners believe that a girl eating potted meat every
day will delay her getting married until at least fourteen. Listerine mouth
wash has no effect on potted meat. Never buy a dog that will eat potted
meat. Feed a cat only potted meat and they will leave. A wife who eats
potted meat everyday will have very few children. If she does, they won’t be
any smart. DDT replaced potted meat in the cotton fields. No one knows what
potted meat is made from or where it’s made. As a kid I was told it was made
from Mongolian yaks, at the time I didn’t know Mongolia was in Alabama. I’m
telling you folks these things so if you ever move to the South you will be
better educated in our culture. I believe this Blog should also serve as an
educational tool.

Last night I had to watch the IDOL with Joyce. I tried to get her to
watch the monkey movie on the The Animal Planet, to no avail. I don’t think
she likes monkey movies as much as I do. I miss very few of them, unless the
IDOL is on. I’ll be glad when they are all voted off. I tried to vote off, 6
of them last night.

My outlook on life is sure looking up, since I found out about how
being virtuous, can decide how smart and above board your friends will be.
I’m certainly looking forward to a better crop of friends in the future.
Virtues is what other people think of you, not what you think of yourself. I
consider that to be reeking with the possibilities of being tainted with a
lot of behind the back, Bad Mouthing, nothing I can do about that. I’m just
glad a persons virtues can be protected if they can deceive people into
believing all your virtues were honestly achieved whether they were or not.
My complete lack of virtues was why I was 22 before I got married. I saved
my wife’s family the humiliation of having a daughter over 14 and not
married, so they gave me a pass on the virtues issue. Since then I have
piled a load of them scutters upon myself. I never felt her family rewarded
me with what I was due, even to this day.

My dad has always had a way with words. I’ve created this BLOG for him to post his stories for all to read.

Rick maddox