Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
So maybe your daughter didn’t bat an eyelash at the kaleidoscopic wildflower garden you cultivated last year, and perhaps your son showed his enthusiasm for your prized rose bushes by blasting the life out of them with his water gun and smearing the fallen petals across his face like war paint. Children and gardening, it has been said, mix about as well as ferns in full sun....
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