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Around The Clay Empire June 07 063

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I was thinking about compo our famous Bronze Turkey today. Compo and Nora were featured with my lovely wife when I wrote a great article about our lovely backyard poultry.

We find surrounding ourselves with life makes all the difference in the world.

Compo cacked last fall under our bird feeder. Nora had cacked just after the article was published earlier. Both were so near and dear to us that we simply could not put them on our table. That and the fact that we were not sure what made them cack. So we played it safe. I buried both in my garden instead.

This is why I was thinking about my dear old Compo. He is buried under last years plot of ochra. I was trying to think of what I should plant over him this spring. What grows good from a dead thousand pound bronze turkey? Watermelons? Corn? If you have any suggestions, now would be the time to chime in. The garden is still in the planning stages.

Last Summer we utilized wood chips and this year we have a bunch of great straw to utilize to keep the weeds down. Here in Princeton, we get sand burs so keeping weeds down is a huge plus!

Well, Compo my friend, I hope over the winter you have broken down are ready to grow some veggies this summer.

Here is to surrounding yourself with life! Despite the heartbreak when they pass into fertilizer, life is reborn and memories are fond to savor as watermelon off the vine on a hot fall day.

~Teddy Bear