Chapter 9.3

“Uh...I don’t know what this means,” said Alex. She was holding up a seed packet. Instead of being labeled with the plant name there was a series of numbers.

51211.3-2

   

“Hmm...I’m sure we can figure out what will grow from it,” Rosemarie said. “Maybe not the variety. It will be a surprise.”

“A code?” asked Alex. She was looking at the packets with excitement.

“Looks like it,” said Georgi. “You get to break it.” She smiled warmly at her daughter.

“I’m gonna need my own notebook,” said Alex smiling.

“Don’t you have one in your backpack?” asked Georgi.

Alex looked down sheepishly. “Yes, but it isn’t up here,” she mumbled.

Georgi ripped out a few pages from her book. “Here, you can use this for now.”

Alex opened the first seed packet. She looked inside the envelope. “These look like beans,” she said. She pulled one out and held it up.

“Yes, it is,” Rosemarie said. “Beans, yum.”

“Very good,” said Georgi with a nod.

Rosemarie was looking forward to seeing what kind of vegetables and fruits they would be able to grow in containers. Building a high fence around the clearing wasn’t something they were going to be able to do very soon. Only three of them really did much of the hard labor.

Georgi stood up and stretched. “Neil, you’ve been looking around the woods. Have you seen any old buildings off in the trees?” she asked.

“Sure have,” he answered. He pointed off to the south, “Something that looks like an old barn.”

“Can you show me?” she asked.

“Sure.”

“Anybody else wanna come?”

“No thank you, Momma, “ said Alex. She was still busy looking in the seed packets.

“No. I think I will stay here with Alex,” Rosemarie said.

As Georgi and Neil ventured off into the woods, Rosemarie worried that they might run into zombies. Neil said they were slow. And she had seen it herself, but the thought of it scared the shit out of her. Rosemarie tried to take her mind off of it by helping Alex crack the seed packet code.

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