How many of you would say you’re a pretty good gardener? I imagine your schedule is getting busy since we have entered spring planting season.

I read a funny story about a potato farmer who was fuming because his son was arrested on a minor offense, and he would be spending the first few weeks of planting season in the local jail. The father wrote him a letter saying, “Son, what were you thinking? You made a stupid mistake, and now I have no one to help me dig up the garden for the planting potatoes.”

The son wrote back, “FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE! Don’t dig in the garden this year. That’s where I hid all my guns.”

The next morning, the father awoke to find the local police force digging up the ground around his house. After hours of work, the officers left empty-handed.

Confused, the father w…