FORM VS. FUNCTION

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April/May 1998
 
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Twenty minutes later, he roared by with four Christmas trees riding in the front bucket, root-balls and all. He downloaded the trees along the property line and took off for more. Five trips later he had a formidable row of evergreens waiting for final planting. First, he gouged a shallow trench along one side of the trees. Then he went around behind to ease them in. Mass transplanting. The apple didn't fall far from Marv's tree.

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"Got the seeds?" Marv asked as soon as the fencing was complete.

"Yeah, I got seeds," Poppa answered. "But we got no gate to get in," he added as they both stared at the perfectly sealed-off garden-to-be.

"Hmmm," Marv said.

"...and even if we did have a gate, I don't want to walk around in that stuff."

"Hmmm," Marv said as he engaged his can-do ingenuity. "Hop on," he shouted.

Poppa stood on the lip of the bucket and Marv slowly elevated Poppa like a circus elephant lifting a lovely young lady in tights. Except Poppa was hanging on with two hands as Marv carefully extended him over the fence and out over the garden so he could cast his salad-garden seeds far and wide. No neat rows of lettuce, carrots, and radishes for these guys. Apparently, they decided that if this was going to be a salad garden, it might as well grow like one: mixed.

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