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HOME’S E-NEWSLETTER!
 

    I can remember as a child going to my grandmother’s house on Sundays in the summer. Folks would sit around on the back porch in a swing, a rocker, or a ladder back chair, and talk a blue streak about anything and everything. They’d share their funny stories, recipes, family history, and words of wisdom. Why, I’ve learned a lot in my life on back porches. It was the kind of inside family information that I might not have learned anywhere else.

     And that’s what we want to do through our Palmer Home newsletter... share our funny family stories, recipes, family
history, and yes, perhaps even a little bit of wisdom, and much more. It’s the kind of stuff you might not learn about us, except on the back porch. So pull up a rocker, and sit a spell. We’ve got lots to tell ya’!
 

    We have twelve greenhouses on the Columbus campus, and we grow beautiful spring plants each year that the cottages sell locally to make “fun” money. They use the money to take cottage vacations, go out to eat, go to the movies, etc.

    We thought you might enjoy a peek at them. (photo above). We grow impatiens, geraniums, wave petunias, lantana, wandering Jew, pentas, gerber daisies, scaevola, and others. I don’t know about you, but just looking at them gives me a serious case of spring fever, and an urge to rush outside and start planting.

     Robert is a 4 year old who came to us with his two siblings in January of this year. Robert has quite the imagination! He imagines he’s a pink dragon, and when asked why “pink”, he quickly responds, “Cause pink dragons fly the fastest”. And later, as he pulls a lollypop from a candy dish on Ms. Sheryl’s desk, he informs us that pink dragons like strawberry lollypops the best. I was visiting his cottage the other day, and asked him if he was still a pink dragon. “No”, he said, “Pink dragons don’t get sick.” It seems he was sick that day, and had been running a fever. He’s an endearing, imaginative little boy, who doesn’t have a shy bone in his body. And, did I mention that he is a storehouse of knowledge about pink dragons?

      Levi is another of our imaginative little boys. He is a lively 4 year old who came to Palmer Home two months ago, with 6 siblings. A group was visiting his cottage one day, and one of the visitors was a very large man, well over six feet tall. Levi walked into the room, and saddled up behind the tall visitor. He eyed the man from foot to noggin, more than once, each time his eyes growing larger. Then he turned to his house mom and asked loudly, “How did he get to be so BIG?” The guest heard Levi’s question. He turned with a smile and glancing down at Levi he said, “I eat my spinach and pray every day, and that’s how I got so BIG!” That seemed to satisfy Levi, and he gave one of his glowing smiles, and went on his way.