. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. words, though, aren't they? Oh, by the way, this means YOU'LL have to invent the cranberry ; "Thanks a lot, ; "Don't mention ; That fall and winter, Alex invented the entire complex cultivation system required to grow the enormous amounts of cranberries his son, Jeff, needed to paint with and that Gloria needed to cook with. He planted that spring. During the summer he watered the plants carefully by flooding the bogs as needed. Well, he didn't actually FLOOD them in the summer. But he liked t
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. words, though, aren't they? Oh, by the way, this means YOU'LL have to invent the cranberry ; "Thanks a lot, ; "Don't mention ; That fall and winter, Alex invented the entire complex cultivation system required to grow the enormous amounts of cranberries his son, Jeff, needed to paint with and that Gloria needed to cook with. He planted that spring. During the summer he watered the plants carefully by flooding the bogs as needed. Well, he didn't actually FLOOD them in the summer. But he liked to use the word, even though he was only watering them. Since drought hadn't been invented yet, he really only had to water them once all summer. But, still, he loved to use that word, FLOOD. That fall the harvest was tremendous. Cave people who summered on the Cape didn't go home. They stayed to watch the intriguing operation. "What's THAT?" one of them asked Gloria. "A cranberry scoop," she told the cave gentleman, showing him the large, hand-carved tool. "It's the ugliest thing I ever saw," he said. But he was thinking differently. He happened to be the owner of a furniture outlet. He recognized their magazine rack potential immediately. Returning to his native New York City, he began to crank them out. That Christmas they were all the rage. Everyone bought one. Except Gloria, who already had one. Magazine sub- scriptions, by the way, soared! Other summer tourists from California and the Midwest saw the inherent value in crop culti- vation. They went back home and cultivated corn, soybeans, 14 grapes, etc. These other farmers said they were the first to cultivate. Poor Alex! He never received one word of credit. Not to worry though, for true happiness had come to the family. The bountiful harvests provided Jeff with billions of berries. He painted his heart out and today his art is praised by the most eminent art historians. The inventiveness of
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