Sweet and Simple

Simmy picked a bouquet of sweet peas for Mama as Sam loaded the new duvet into the Hummer. Country living sounds really romantic but traveling such long distances for just a day trip can be a little exhausting.
As Simmy and Sam drove out to visit Cornelius as well, the conversation (the day before) with young banker of same pseudonym came to mind.
"Well, the highest credit rating I've ever seen was 899 and that was for a man who was 85 and only had one credit card with a zero balance."
Yes, that was likely Cornelius or a man just like him... great credit because, basically, they'd learned to live without needing it... Hmm! Builder generation discipline... keep it sweet and simple.
Sam was out in Cornelius' garden and he hollered for Simmy to come and look at the tomato plants. This link  http://romancedesigner.blogspot.com/2011/06/well-tended-garden.html 
shows what those plants looked like about a month ago.

This is what they looked like today. I stopped counting when I got to 14 large tomatoes in a one foot section, in elevation.
"Now I know why they planted so few plants," remarked Simmy.
Again, I say,... 
Builder generation discipline... keep it sweet and simple.
The tomato crop coming from those few plants put Sam and Simmy to shame... well, in the garden variety tomato but...
sweet peas, zinnias and cosmos were the plentiful harvest in their garden.