The Dandelion War and the Golden Finch
posted March 26, 2009 - 6:11pmDestroy! Spray! Poison! Kill those Dandelions! You must have a green lawn! No weeds allowed! So, kill those Dandelions! said: Authoritative and Commandingly.
said Narratively: The war against the Dandelions goes on…

Disheartedly: You pull them up all summer and the next spring, what do you see; beautiful and terrible golden Dandelions all over the place.
Exasperatedly: I tried digging them up from the roots. I’ve tried spraying them. Oh, yeah weed and feed; no good. What is a homeowner to do?
Frustratedly: Yet, the Dandelions don’t fight back; all they do is keep multiplying. The bloody fricken, fracken, grrrrrr…rr dandelions.
Admittedly: I do have to admit they are quite beautiful, especially as a present from a little one.
Happily: Ahhh…The joy of being given a bouquet of Dandelions from little hands. Ohhh…
Informatively: I hear they have some good nutrients as well; high in vitamin C. I heard you can make salads out of the tender shoots before the Dandelion goes to seed, or you can make tea out of them.
Maniacal: I know! I’ll kill them and eat them too!
Warningly: No, no, no, I don’t recommend that with all the poisons and fertilizers that I have put on them.
Excitedly: I know! A goat!
Perceptively: No, no, no, that won’t work cause then the goat will eat my wife’s flowers, and then my wife will kill me, and the Dandelions will have won. So, that won’t work either.
Frenziedly: I know! Asphalt!
Dejectedly: No, no, No! They’ll just come through that too. Plus, my relatives might think I made more parking just for them, and I’ll never get rid of them. God forbid they show up more often.
Morosely: Plus the Dandelions will win a moral victory, because all my relatives will be ashamed of me for having Dandelions growing in my garden.
Surprised: What is That? OVER THERE! On the Dandelion! A little golden finch! What is he doing? He is helping me, he is eating the dandelion! Oh look, another finch, not as colorful, it must be Mrs. Gold Finch. Ohhhh…they are so cute.
Joyfully: Mr. Finch flies up and sits on the line, while Mrs. Finch flies down and eats off a dandelion. Mr. Finch plays sentry duty as Mrs. Finch eats. Ah, he is watching over his lady.
Encouraged: And they are helping me on my war against the proliferating vexing dandelions.
Peacefully: Then Mr. and Mrs. Finch get their fill and fly off.
Resolutely: Back to the war on the wretched Dandelions!
Epiphany: But wait! If I destroy all the Dandelions will the golden Finches ever come back?
Defiantly: No! No! NO! I can’t contemplate that… Noooooo! I WON’T give up my war against those vial Dandelions.
Sadly: But, if I get rid of the Dandelions what will Mr. and Ms. Finch eat?
Self-protectively: What will the neighbors think? I will be the butt of all those dandelion commercials! The neighbors will think I am a trader to the war against evil dandelions!
Repentantly: Oh shoot! The beauty of those finches that had the same color as the dandelions; I don’t think I will be able to take away their habitat.
Pessimistically: Oh, Trats! The neighbors are going to start thinking I am a lazy slob for letting Dandelions grow in my yard. They are going to get mad because the dandelions might spread to their yard.
Fearfully: And if I explain all this to them, they might think I’m an environmentalist. No! No! NO! Anything but that! I worked in a lumber mill for year, I can have that.
Longingly: But, the golden finches were so peaceful and beautiful.
Glumly: Oh, how will I ever deal with the propaganda that is being fed to my neighbors through their tell-a-vision?
Contemplatively: Wait! Maybe, the dandelions are smarter than I, for in just a short few minutes the Dandelions had won me over from being a buyer of the weapons of mass destruction, chemical warfare, and genocide from the profiteering of the arms dealers, to their side by their simple beauty and purpose.
Hopefully: Maybe, just maybe, one day the dandelions will show my neighbors the wonderful vision of the Golden Finches.
God Speed my little friends,

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