This may seem a little weird coming from a woman my age, but what comes to mind is a favorite song of mine from Van Halen's 5150 album..."Dreams". One of the lines from it says "we'll get higher and higher..." and that is what I envision my garden doing. The CD was released in 1986, the year I met my husband, and we used to listen to it on his boat. Mary

WEll of course there's the song by David Mallet song "Inch by inch, row by row - gonna make this garden grow - all it takes is a rake and a hoe and a bit of fertile ground." . . . But, I also make up my own songs while I am out in the garden. Here's one I wrote last year after finding deer tracks everywhere. A Song to Sing While Working in the Garden Stay out of my garden you mangey ole deer Your presence is definitely not wanted here I see your footprints in the early morning light So I know you visited my garden last nite. YouÂve been biting my beans and chompin my corn Your destruction is leavin me oh so forlorn! I planted this garden for me  not for you So you mangey ole deer  just stay outta here! Stay out of my garden you ole woodchuck you I definitely donÂt want what you came here to do YouÂve left holes in the rows I so neatly have sown Your destruction is making me we-ep and moan I planted this garden for me not for you So stay out of my garden you ol groundhog you. Stay out of my garden dear bunnies so sweet Go somewhere else to find something to eat I planted this garden for me not for you So stay out of my garden you little bunnies you. Stay out of my garden you ugly ol bugs My gardenÂs off limits to you thieves and thugs DonÂt want your destruction in my garden so dear So you ugly ol bugs  just stay out of here. If IÂve failed to mention all you culprits by name The message is still just one and the same I planted this garden for me not for you So stay out of my garden  yes that includes you! © May 23, 2007 Sherrieflower And sometimes I sing another I made up: Guardian angels guard my garden keep it safe from all that would destroy Guardian angels guard my garden so abundant harvests I'll enjoy. :)

If some of you would like to get a different picture of Casey's beloved Newfoundland, if you get a chance, see "Come From Away", a play about how some 11,000 Newfoundlanders made something like 5 - 6,000 denizens of (something like 37?) aircraft welcome on 9 - 11 or about 5 days, when they weren't allowed to fly in the U.S. and Canada. ole joyful

Annie, I've always really liked "Deep Purple", but my association is with the up-tempo 70(s)? version. I'm trying to make myself get out for a walk so I'm not going to look it up now. Sadly, I don't believe I ever asked my mom what her favorite song was. I know she liked music, especially the music of her time and that of Barbra Streisand, but I don't remember her humming around the house.