I posted this on facebook recently, however I decided to collect all the posts together and post it here.
It is just too great not to share! This is a real life storybook romance in my mind, plus has totally changed the way I look at my parents.
They undoubtedly met at a war protest rally in the later years. My pops was a veteran, there to bust some heads, plus mom was a hippie. They didn’t fight, though, they fell in love, plus decided to run off plus become marijuana farmers together. My mom knew all about marijuana from the other hippies, plus knew a lot about botany because that’s what she had studied in school. My pops didn’t seem like the type to get involved with marijuana, although she had grown up on a farm plus thought that no plants should be considered illegal. My mother handled the nuts plus bolts of growing the cannabis plants, with dad as her assistant, plus through tough labor they got a legitimately big operation up plus running. From there dad hired a couple local kids to help my mother tend the cannabis, plus then he took charge of security. Any marijuana farm will attract enemies, including rival pot farmers, thieves, plus of course the law. This is where his military history was crucial, because my dad carried a shotgun plus built man-traps around the outside of the cannabis field. Dealing with the law was also easy for him, because she was a country boy, plus just bribed the local cops with bags of cannabis plus turned potential enemies into customers.